Tuesday, January 26, 2010

A Wee Bit of This

A Wee Bit of This takes about fifteen minutes to hand fluff and floof. It takes a wee bit less than fifteen minutes to enjoy spinning it all up. I really do have to step up my mad blending game. While I continue slow and steady, I have gotten a few more colors to play with. Bright, vibrant "waste". More once I clear off the spindle of the soysilk/alpaca and experiment a bit this evening. Yes, parked in front of the fireplace is where I'll be. They are predicting snow again. Yay! Snow is fun! Nooo! We been exploring the walking trails and came across another network that goes to new to us places.

It's so cool how the Wee Bits look like cocoons. When you squeeze them the colors darken giving you an idea of how they will spin up. Today's walk was spectacular! Pics will be up soon. Those new trails, wow. We left the cottage at 2pm. We'd discussed the trails we'd take to make a nice loop woods walk and a bit of village walk. Near the end of the second segment Kiddo spied the next string of trails. After the second trail we had to choose from a split we thought it best we turn back and come back mid morning so we'd have more time to explore. The point at which we had stopped had a grassy lush green trail to the left and one to the right was one heading up a hill and around to another ridge. We stopped, had a look around, both blurted out ~ We're goin UP THERE next time!

A new neighbor moved in this last weekend. Today a van pulled up out front. I was sitting out on the front deck weaving in endless ends, glance up, see a man hop out of the van and immediately hoist up his trousers. Eyes glance down to my fine weavinginendlessends job then back up as a second guy hops out of the van and immediately hoist up his pants while turning and look over towards me on the deck. I stopped messing about with the ends wondering if they were indeed coming here and not to the neighbor. Then, a third man exits the van, hoists up his pants, turns back to get something out of the van and shut the door. They head to the neighbor's house. It was then that I noticed that they were plumbers.

Made my day.

1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous fluff. I have some silk like that I am spinng some of it as a single straight as it comes, the rest I'm going to blend with some Alpaca.

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