New Family Members

Here are the two newest additions to our family. One the left is Riley a little girl, and on the right is Tyler who is the brother. We have been having mouse challenges and have thought that by having a cat we would be able to control it a bit better. Right now they are about 6 weeks old and not much bigger than the mice themselves. Notice in the picture of Tyler, my tennis shoe sticking out from the right. I wear a size 7.5 so they are not huge. that should give you an idea of tiny these little munchkins care. My daughters are the primary caregivers and i am hoping to give them a lesson in caring for babies, perhaps making life a bit more real for them as they are 14 years old going on about 30. HELP ME.
They have not discovered my yarn stash yet but oh man they are heading in the direction. right now they are content to torment my poor dog who is a 5 year old black lab. Toby wants to make friends in the worst way but these little guys are not really into that at this point. Toby needs to realize they need an adjustment period. they are so darn funny but will become great members of the family when they settle in a bit.

More later.. see picture of lovely daughters below. see why I am losing my mind.

Back again

It’s been a busy couple of weeks and there is always something that gets set by the side when you are hopping. Unfortunately it was my blog. Doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy though. I spun up a lb of a gorgeous corriedale cross into the thinnest singles I’ve done so far. The colors are super too. It’s fuchsia, mint green, and evening blue. The dye was RIT and I am really starting to like working with that. The only problem that I am finding is some of the darker colors bleed, unlike the Cushing’s that I have used in the past. .

Im pretty proud of the colors and and evenness of my spinning so far. This batch is going to turn into socks. Speaking of socks I found a super book. Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook.It’s an inexpensive book that talks about the process of creating designer socks with super dying techniques. LOTS OF PICTURES and great ideas. I am hoping to be working on a new batch of roving today with the new stuff I learned in it. Check it out if you like to dye your own roving, yarn or pre spun commercial yarns.

I also learned this week about Navaho plying. Wow that was a great time too. My plying wasn’t super even but I learned quick and it makes a nice strong 3 ply yarn. It doesn’t leave left-overs like a traditional plying and the colors come out so different. I am going to spin the next batch up SUPER thin and try to do a whole lb that way. It’s beginning to occur to me that I should be knitting something with all this yarn. Hmmm novel idea. Okay off to play mad scientist. More later…