I get it, we had to have just one last rainstorm to keep California green for an hour longer when the real California Spring rears her head. Yeah, just kidding. This dyer, who has been craving that sun for certain selfish reasons (LIKE BUSINESS!) is mighty glad to see it today and I hear that we are going to have a glorious weekend. Tank is bored with the idea...where's the food? I just think that it might be easier to see the cell division that is happening in this little guy...the legs and body are getting longer now, trying to catch up with the paws. He just wants to be big like Sasha, which means that the little S house is going to shrink even more. Gotta love it. He is such a sweet boy.
The sun IS good for my soul and the inside real estate.
Is that good for your color fix?
I finished the project with the colored Border Leicester fleece, the funky fluffed up stuff that I shot with the blue/purple Tencel. Here is the portrait of the stuff in the full sun, so that you can be duly blinded by the flash of the shiny stuff. The silkiness of the Tencel adds to the overall hand of the yarn and adds a yin/yang quality to the project. I really like it and can see it used in many great ways.
The contrast to that project is the second 8 ounces of the angora that I spun just before the primitive stuff and after the endless/mindless brown merino pin drafted roving. I think that it turned out very nice and tried to skein it into smaller bits for people. (there are two more little bags of this fiber in my arsenal)
The shade gives the photo a little bit cooler cast than the color actually has. It is somewhere between the warm shot of the progress picture (under the halogen) and this one.
Now, I just need to figure out which of the things in my fiber fort (who doesn't pile stuff around their spinning corner, come onnnnnnn!) need to go next. Merino top or the silk/merino roving that I just dyed. Decisions, decisions. Oh yes and there are a couple of bags of baby alpaca that I need to address, especially since Lin contacted me this morning, waving promises of beautiful NEW fleece in my direction. My fort is going to have very high walls, unless I make some space! I guess that the silk/merino will go into stock for some lucky spinner.
Today is sew and cut day for my cardigan that has been languishing for awhile. Kerry was asking why the thing dropped off the face of the earth and I had just gotten to the point of steek attack and let the darned thing just sit there. Seems like a good project for this afternoon and so I will have at it and then take a picture to show you that once again, I have not fainted dead away from the shock of cutting into a precious piece of knitting. (EZ is in her heaven cheering on every steek cutting day.)
Now then, I have one more thing to share. A good friend of ours, who in his day job is The Husband's supervisor, has released his first CD. Ace Batacan is an accomplished guitarist who has done lots of studio work over the years and if you enjoy acoustic guitar music, this is very very nice. We were quick to support our buddy who turns us on to all kinds of great music (and vice/versa). I am still waiting for him to tell me that I can be his official photographer if he gets the interview with the Queen of All Things, the woman that plays the same guitar that he uses (a Collings)...wait for it...Joni Mitchell. I'll just say my prayers and flatter him and if it ever happens, I may pass out from the excitement. :o)
Now, I need to fortify my sewing machine nerves with some nice tea...