(much more yellow in real life; like below)
Spinning: Art Club Succulent Wool/Nylon hand dyed & combed top
Watching: Mad Men Season 2 Best-of Marathon
Notes: Man, I love the combed top Zeilingers makes. It totally spins itself, no prep at all necessary. I had to work to go thicker on this one, because I keep wanting to spin as fine as I can, but I needed to match some handdyed combed top I had already spun up for a sweater some months ago, before I took the fine spinning class that cursed me. I didn’t have enough of it, so I’m spinning equal parts of this to ply it. I still need another bobbin + the rest of this one, so I’m guessing another 6 oz or so.
I’ll get a shot of the stuff I’m plying it with tomorrow, assuming dickhole FedEx can be bothered to either knock or actually go around to the front door. (Today, they really couldn’t be troubled to actually make any real attempt to deliver it. Apparently we hicks out in the sticks don’t rate any consideration, even though they’re all too happy to charge extra to “deliver” out here. Deliver in this case means putting a sticker on the back door and beating a hasty retreat. I wouldn’t be so angry if this kind of shit were less common with FedEx. Express is so expensive and it’s shitty they have no qualms about making the absolute bare minimum gesture. I can actually feel my blood pressure mounting, thinking about this. Serenity now, serenity now.)
Future: Will be plied with my greenies hand-dyed medium wool (can’t remember the colorway–I think it may have been some extras of fiber I dyed up for Cuckoobatts Club) to make a worsted. It will become a hoodie with a big kangaroo pocket.
That’s some gorgeous stuff. No wonder there’s a big smile!