Remember the fiber I won so long ago?

I was looking back on my past posts and I saw the
fiber I had won at the Indiana spinning event! I am finally doing something with that fiber and spinning it the past few days. I finally finished last night and then started spinning some purple that will complement it (hopefully). The tag with the fiber says that it is 4.7 oz so I want to see if I can stretch that to a full 8 oz. I still don't know what I will do with it, but at least it is enough to actually amount to something. I am also working on a sweater. I am part of Christian Artisans on Yahoo and we are in the midst of a Project Along. I decided that I was going to take the wool that I had sitting in the attic gathering dust and it should be put to use. I didn't think I had enough of any of them to make a sweater so I plyed two different fibers together. It looks like I will have more than enough to knit the sweater and another 4-5 skeins left over. I don't like the dye job I did, I really am not a light blue person so once I finish the sweater, back to the dye pot for it! I am doing it the round from the top down because , honestly, that seems to be the most logical thing to do. I am almost finished with the first sleeve, just about 1 inch more then the ribbing.

I had a funny that I told to the Christian Artisans group. My son's girlfriend finds it fascinating that I knit. I made the comment that I didn't like the color of the sweater and was going to dye it darker. She suggested black and I said it was too difficult to do a good job. She asked why I didn't just buy black yarn to begin with. I told her I spun the yarn myself. She was speechless. That is difficult to do with teenagers, they always have the last word!