Roving

Just a quick post to show the batts drawn out as roving.  I intend to draw out each color into thinner roving, much thinner actually so as to spin something resembling lace weight yarn.  I want to make it 1 ply.  I think the silky texture and the long staple are conducive to that.

Suri Batts Overdyed Blue

I know I should be working on my prize for Al Hoff but I pulled out some batts I carded a while back.

And I decided to overdye some of them.  Below is the result.

I used the greenish and the reddish purple one as well as a couple other random batts.  can you understand why I am drooling over this?

Steek experiment

So this is not supposed to be a knitting blog but anyway, here's a steeking experiment.  I am doing slash pockets with a steek in the middle for the toddigan.  

Other changes; my gauge has tightened up so I went up a needle size.  I might need to go up one more.

fjyfmkuk ut k!!!!  Handmade stuff can be really annoying.  Also, dark things are hard to photograph.

Bagged Cold Mountain

Just a footnote to the cold mountain shawl.  I bagged and mailed it last week.  I just had to get some kind of shawl pin for it and there it is.  My mom loves it!  Says it made her want to get her hair done because she feels dressed down with this shawl.  I felt exactly the same and yet it is not the fanciest shawl out there and its colors are fairly low key but yes, it is somehow classy.

I gotta love ziplock bags.  I was able to suck the air out of this 1 gallon one.

Swatch

Knit, washed and blocked, as per recommendations.  I don't want to mess this up.

Toddigan Yarn Skein One

Spun, plied and washed yesterday.  Now I need to ball it up and do a swatch.

Once I do that I can estimate how much more I need to spin.  I hope that I won't need more than 4 skeins but I have a feeling I will need more.

Bad Language

I know, that's bad language.  I just think that there should be more LOLALPACAs out there.  This is a photo I took last summer when visiting a suri farm in Ohio.  This cria was born a few week premature and was a little shaky.  I think she ended up OK but her mom looks mad at me for even looking at her baby.