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I’ve been spinning alpaca, some lovely rusty brown and some silvery gray that I ordered from Little Barn, the delivery time from Little Barn was speedy, arriving prior to Christmas, which gives me reason to think that my first experience with them was just a hiccup. For that, I’m really glad because their prices and quality are wonderful.

I also ordered more of the Moorit Shetland and some white Shetland. I can’t say enough about their processing, it’s a special treat to order clean roving that is still lively and hasn’t been processed to death. I like my wool with the character of wool in it.

I still have half a bobbin of cashmere that I haven’t the patience to put back on the wheel yet, it’s lovely stuff and I’m looking forward to the resulting yarn, but it just takes forever and a day to spin.

I swear it grows.

When the cashmere came with the first order it was in a plastic zip type bag, I’ve spun about half of it, and yet the bag is still full of cloud. Stuffed full.

Christmas was good, we did the big family party Christmas Eve at my mom’s house. The more dramatic of my two stepsisters didn’t show so it was actually very nice and calm. We had a quiet Christmas dinner with a few gifts exchanged at home. No drama, no traumatic craziness, just love, Peace on Earth and ham.

Today is Josey’s big 10th birthday, so this year he wants to help make and decorate his own cake (German chocolate) and he gets to pick what we have for dinner tonight. He’s also thinking that he’s old enough for a blog of his own, so– we’ll talk about it.

I trust my child, I just don’t trust the rest of the world.

Opal is having a contest on her blog, guess what her project is and score some yarn.