Fiber Follies

I have agreed with a counselor at the local Humane Society to put up an adoptable each week, right here on my blog. Maybe somehow this will help. It breaks my heart to see the innocents who suffer human irresponsibility. I surely cannot bring all of them home. If you look at my links-over there, under “Find Me At:” you’ll find a link labelled “Lollypop Farm”. There are cats, dogs, horses, sheep, small animals, and assorted others awaiting permanent homes.

It’s sad to see so many wonderful cats there. I can’t save them all but maybe one will find a home because I put mention on my blog.

I had to return to the farm as I’d left my one and only decent coat there. Bob sent me home with silk hankies this time so I can have a go at another sort of silk spinning. After my last experience with silk caps, I don’t know about the hankies, but it’s silk and no matter the nonsense I may undergo, I still get beautiful shiny yarn from it. This will be happy spinning. He says next time he’ll give me some throwers waste (?) to play with.

On the spinning, I just finished that gawdawful cotton/lyocell/flax. Well, not finished as in ‘finished it off’, but finished as in ‘there’s enough for the project in mind’. It’s so handsome and so very soft, but spinning it was not fun. It also has seeds in it so I had to pick as I spun. It was very stubborn in my inexperienced hands so I wound up with a ‘beads on a string’ effect, where it’s neatly and finely spun for a bit then there’s a great blurff of cotton then it’s neat again and another blurff. Plying didn’t really even it out, it’s that bad. I tried wet-spinning it too but still came out with interesting uneven-ness. I can set the rest aside indefinitely or compost it. I plyed it with cotton crochet thread and the silk I spun in February for a nice 3-ply that’ll be cool enough for a hot climate child. It’s going to be a great yarn and the best part is that I’m not processing it into the finished project. Precious Child is.

Spring is jumping up all over the place! Daffs going strong, magnolia blooms beginning, chionodoxia in bloom, dicentra popped overnight, and erythronium with its nodding yellow blooms. I really must get images of these. Every spring it’s all new to me.