Insubordiknit

Sid, seattle weather, and soysilk batts

It came in the big brown truck yesterday and nothing has been the same since. Midnight alley, brick wall, your thrall is almost lost! This monstrosity is what's makin' me hot now! O, shiny, spiky goodness, how you make me ache in all the right places. I'll call you Sid. I threw some green domestic fluff on Sid with smallest bits of green/blue soysilk and hot damn, I had beautiful, fluffy bat of shiny, green goodness in no time flat. I also did some old redish falklands with some shiny red firestar. It didn't take long to get a handle on it, the perfect mixture of rough and gentle.

Damn.

And if that wan't enough, my SP sent me a package! a wonderful package of all the right stuff. I must not be maintaining the level of vauge-ity and secretiveness I intend, because people are getting to know me and shit. Look at this load! It's perfect. I've never knitted with bamboo (outside of what I've spun) so I can't wait, and those just happen to be my favorite color combo, strange, eh? Plus the wonderful book and rockin' tape measure, both of which will get worn out with use, I can assure. My own poor SP, I sent her a package 3 weeks ago and it just got returned to me yesterday (she moved, I think), the only mar on my perfect mail experience. I'll just add some stuff and send it out again.

I spent the other evening doing this. It's four pounds. The freakin' weather change is making the drying process a bit tedious. I don't care for the hot and my fiber doesn't care for the cold, but we all have out crosses to bear, right? I haven't spun any of that load up yet but I've spun others. Here's some of it that's currently stuggleing to dry in my rainy, chilly kitchen (and yes, my kitchen is still rainy, though Christine offerend to come fix it while wearing pasties and a cape, that's how it was gonna work, right? 'Cause that would be the shit!). Hanging there is 400 yards of the most lovely, earthy 2-ply, all the rest are self-striping hat kit yarns, which will be available soon. I've already knitted up 4 of them, they look great! If you look closely, you can see the 2 yarns that contain the fiber that's been through Sid, the sparkly reddish in the front, and the green in the black and green to the right. So cool, though I do need to get used to spinning outta bats rather than top.

Finally, for those of you that come for the cute kid, here's my boy, of his own accord --

Posted by jacey at October 14, 2005 11:28 AM