


For those who would like a little more detail, the first two days were taken up with the other half of the gradient-dyed maude & me. merino. I now have two matching skeins, all ready to make a pair of socks with:

You probably can't read the wee tags I've put on the skeins, but they say - Skein #1, 76g, 186m and Skein #2, 75g, 171.75m Not much difference between them, and I think they'll look awesome all knit up!
Day three saw me attempting my finest spinning yet, to create a lace weight two ply yarn. I have 200g of this scrumptious fibre, hand dyed by Lyn Walsh of fibre2go. I put a little more detail into the collage, as you can see, so its pretty self-explanatory. This fibre is going to take me quite some time to spin up, but if I get bored with it, I'll break it up with some other spinning (of which I have plenty to be getting on with!!)
You needn't fear for my family - they are still being well fed and looked after. Washing is being done, the kitchen is clean and tidy, I made roast chicken for dinner this evening, and I even managed to get the housework done! I find I need to take more breaks from spinning than I do knitting, to avoid getting a really sore back. I think perhaps a change of chair would help - I would love to get one of these, with the Rose motif to match my wheel, or maybe one of these. Maybe I should put it on the 'birthday/Christmas wish-list'?
And just a little random snippet - a fellow kiwi knitter/blogger posted this the other day. Well worth the read, and non-knitters may find it helpful ;-)
Have a good week!!
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