Spinning Blue Moon Fiber
It's been very busy around here the last week, preparing for the 7th Annual Tim Klotz Memorial Golf Outing which was held on Tuesday. It's exhausting emotionally and physically, but it raises a nice bit of money for local charities and it also gets together a lot of my Dad's friends so that they can chat about him and recall his antics which is always fun.
But I have found some time to craft too! Last week Theresa come over for a spinning day and I finished up my first bobbin of this lovely shocking pink Blue Moon Fiber Arts handpainted roving in the colorway Cranberry. The fiber is 50% Alpaca and 50% Blue Faced Leicester -- yum! It's been an absolute joy to spin. I spun the second bobbin up this past weekend and just need to spin up bobbin #3 so can make my three ply. After that, Maddie will be getting a nice new pair of mittens and something else -- a matching hat or scarf or both depending on the yardage. (Alden Amos would have my head. Before I started spinning, he would have me calculate my estimated yardage according to some complicated weighing and measuring of a sample. Forget that!)
I've also got a weaving project on the loom and Maddie's socks are almost finished! Two incredible books arrived on Tuesday too, so I need to review them. Oh my goodness, I have a lot to do!
How lovely. It may be exhausting emotionally and physically, but how nice to hear stories about your Dad. My Dad has been gone 40 years now, and when someone mentions remembering him it just thrills me no end. No matter how long they're gone, we miss them. I love your spinning and the yarn. It's beautiful.
Posted by: Cindy | Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 10:17 AM
That colour is just absolutely beautiful!!!
Posted by: Uli | Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 12:17 PM
Ohhh, the pink! It is beautiful and will make a great winter set for Maddie. Can't wait for the book reviews! Oh, I had a question. I finally listened to the first booga talk dedicated to books and I was wondering, do you keep every book you read? Or are the books you have all over the house faves and ones yet to be read? Just curious :)
Posted by: Vicki | Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 12:44 PM
Your spinning is beautiful! Love the color. Blue moon's fibers are really great to work with.
Posted by: Kelly | Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 03:37 PM
The colours are absolutely gorgeous! Do you have plans for it?
Posted by: Jo | Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 04:06 PM
yummm! the roving and resulting yarn is absolutely gorgeous!!
Posted by: rebecca | Friday, August 11, 2006 at 02:23 PM
Incredible colorway! Your spinning does it justice.
Posted by: The Purloined Letter | Friday, August 11, 2006 at 02:23 PM
what gorgeous fiber! Nice singles!
Posted by: michellelmf | Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 04:52 PM