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The two skeins on the left are from the same colorway as the one on the right.
Superstition from FiberOptic.
I just finished the two on the left (the one on the right is from before.) The new skeins are sock weight, and Navajo plied to keep the colors in solid blocks.
I am also working on buttoning [...]

Things couldn’t be better.
The Black Coffee roving from FiberOptic is almost sock yarn now.
Please excuse the greenish hue, my camera does that under fluorescent lights. The greenish hue doesn’t exist in real life and I’m sure it could be corrected in Photoshop except that my attempts at correcting it turned out far worse than the [...]

I just don’t like waiting for it to dry when the torment is done.
I’ve shocked it in hot water and cold, thwacked, soaked, and snapped the snot out of this yarn so that it’ll be as tough as the hubs of hell.
All the torture has felted and blossomed it just a little, forcing the merino [...]

Yummy yummy yarn guts.
Doesn’t this look like fluffy shiny deer guts? The effect is far more realistic in real life than I was able to capture with the camera. I thank goodness that the smell is not that of authentic intestines.
One of the things I like about dying silk is that it’s fairly goof proof [...]

I’m usually not so cranky with my color choices. Hindsight being what it is, I think I should have chosen something a little more uplifting than heathered gray merino to put on the wheel.
During our morning errands I grabbed a set of paint brush pen things and a sketch pad for Lexi.
I’m undecided on whether [...]

Days really should be a bit longer shouldn’t they? (Pictured at left is the former Evil Clown roving, transformed into the kind hearted gypsy princess yarn.)
It’s still winter and I live  in a valley. I should know by now that the day light will always be a little shorter for us, I just wish it [...]

I ran into an old friend while cleaning out my cosmetics drawer. A bit of Tish and Snooky’s manic panic hair color in a shade called “Ultra Violet” I remember buying it a few years back thinking that violet would be a good change from my usual mandarin orange.
As it turned out, I was horribly [...]

and never quite caught up.
I haven’t put forth any serious spinning effort in a while, every once in a while I grab my spindle and work on the reddish brown baby alpaca but the wheel has languished in the closet since August.
Opal knows what it takes to get a girl spinning again and put it [...]