I pluck it right from the tiny sheep in my living room. Where he got it was from FiberOptic on etsy. He’s a wise little sheep with very good taste.

My other fiber order got lost in the mail.

This is a 50/50 blend of bamboo and merino, handpainted in shades of brown, deep brown and black.

This is exactly how I like my coffee: Rich and full of wool.

I’m spinning it up as a lace weight because I feel the need to do some lace knitting coming on.

I fed him this morning and although he likes the little freeze dried bloodworms he told me (and I quote) “I’m so sick of these motherf*cking flakes in this motherf*cking tank.”

Lots of attitude, movie aficionado, lean mean meme machine. Itchy is my kind of fish.

In addition to Itchy I also put in a fiber order with Little Barn again. This is the first time in practically forever that I’ve been able to buy a significant amount of spinning fiber and I’m pretty antsy because it’s being shipped UPS ground from Alabama to Oregon.

I have plowed through the last of the white BFL making a three ply worsted weight on my wheel.

It’s a frustrating balance, I sold my drum carder on the cheap to a lady taking up felting so that I wouldn’t be tempted to put off purchasing a new better drum carder and to clear out enough space to house a new better drum carder. Of course, things happened and the money for the new better drum carder never magically appeared. (Well, sorta– it did actually but I spent it on bills and food for the children and practical things.) So the things I normally look forward to doing when I get new and unusual (at least to me) fibers are off the table at the moment.

Oh yeah, I could totally blend fibers with my hand cards– except that would require me to actually try to match rolags, and then there’s that whole using hand cards. It’s one of those labor equations that comes down to investing money or suffering, I’m one of those people that prefers to invest the money and skip the suffering.

During our morning errands I grabbed a set of paint brush pen things and a sketch pad for Lexi.

I’m undecided on whether I was an extremely clever or extremely as a mommy. Yes, she is covered with crayola product ink, no it is not on the walls (yet.) Clever or foolish? I may have to review that question next week.

One thing I can say about Lexi’s artistic endeavors is the girl is bold and she likes her colors. I think she should take over picking my fibers and dyeing them for me, what do you think?

I present to you “Abcapoo” a work in progress by Alexanne Meyer.