Lots and lots of really neat yarn type factoids that I just love learning about. Probably most people would be bored to death, but not me. I love it. I didn't know for example that at one time Alpacas were almost extinct. I'm afraid the same may happen to Musk Ox. I know, how many people worry about that one? Almost none. And yet their hair is the warmest thing known on the planet.
Got to talk to an old friend from Alaska this week. Their Christmas letter arrived a bit later than usual and rather mangled, it may have been in the other side of the couple's truck for ages, or just one of those strange mail things. It was fun to chat with her. How much Alaska has changed in the intervening years and of course Fairbanks has tripled in size.
Have lots of new yarn made also. I need to get a photo up so you can see her and took some new shots of Miss Elly, aka as Cinder-elly, precious and baby kitty girl. She is a 16 or more pound cat.
Not best pleased with me here. Just tolerating having her photo taken and wants a drink from the bathroom sink if you'd wait on me as you should. Here is one of her outside thinking about eating grass.
It is early in the spring and the snows from October have finally melted except the huge piles in the parking lots of commercial and business places, but too early for grass to grow much and it is mostly in the brown dormant state. Also don't you love the fluffy end hair on her tail. Makes me chuckle all the time.
I decided to take a quick photo of the yarn ball I've made so far. This is nearly an ounce of yarn ready to be plied (twisted together the other direction to be a 2-ply yarn) together for something to be knit from.
The fiber is a batt made from wool, a nice merino wool, a bit of alpaca, some silk and another wonderful component which I've forgotten, but it spins beautifully and is with some of the batts (on the far left side) I'd ordered and the spindle is one of my new ones I'd ordered.
I added pages to my Artist's Journal, but this post is long enough and that will be for another time. suffice to say I'm having a ball with both things.
Did you remember to jump ahead today?
I agree, the week can just slip away with everyday activities. Then you think back and ask, "Where did it go?" Sometimes that can make a good blog post. :-) Kitty Elly is a beauty. Does she have any white on her anywhere?? Your spindel is so cool. Everytime I think of it, I think of Sleeping Beauty. Of course, you would be one of the GOOD fairy godmothers.
ReplyDeleteWell Yeah!!!!! to the Good fairy godmothers!!!!
DeleteShe doesn't have a bit of white, but when she is groomed she has sort of tweed look for the first week or so. By grooming I mean shaved in the lion cut. She seems to have a chocolate undercoat, so that make the tweedy effect (rats! did I use the right one!?) even better and an an occasional sort of long gray guard hair you can see the first week after grooming. I never thought of taking a cat in to be groomed before this one. She will grow out 4 inch hair all over if I don't. Amazing!!!