Fiber Follies

And we are glad! Binx and Chavez have gone to their new homes and I wish them very happy lives with their new families.

I have several more who will be posted tomorrow.

Bless you, all of you, who take the abandoned, unwanted cats into your homes and hearts.

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I’m still spinning in fits and starts. I had a wheel of merino/viscose in a luscious bluesy/green colourway. It’s a soft and easy spin. I started it just about a week ago and it’s nearly finished. That’s a record for me, I have little time to spin so am lucky to get through a few grams in a day. It’s mighty pretty spun. I’m now musing over how best to ply it. Pick a coordinating colour to ply with it? A contrasting colour? Navajo ply (which looks great but I hate doing it)? Pick one colour in it to match with another singles and ply those?

The possibilities. Oh, the possibilities.

Knitting is stalled a bit now. Not because I don’t believe in knitting in warm weather, but because the yarn I swore that I had more of seems to no longer exist, so my Entrelac Purse isn’t going anywhere fast. I don’t recall having swapped out any of the yarn. I bought 5 or 6 skeins of it at a Superbowl Sale last year. I have used 2 skeins and need maybe one-third of a third skein. Since I plan to full the bag once finished I don’t want to use another yarn-I used two different yarns in a fulled item once and it puckered. It’s a large round object, so its puckers make it resemble a vast yawning rectum. I don’t want a puckered bag. So, I keep looking for the missing yarn which I very likely gave away, pondering a change to the pattern so I can cast off and have it finished.

The Marsan Watchcap is also on hold, mainly because I haven’t knitted much since I spend my free time looking for nonexistent yarn. Oh well. I won’t need the cap until November or December anyway. Maybe it’s time to rummage the closet where all the WIPs (UFOs?) have been kept. It would be nice to actually complete a few things this year.

We won’t mention the weaving.