I stayed up late last night finishing a custom spinning job for one of my best friend’s neilgaiman.com board buddies. This yarn is for the same lady that bought my drag queen grover shawl. So I know she has good taste, but is willing to go pretty far out there with the weird. I love people with those kind of qualifications.

This one’s a little more reigned in. She wanted a similar beaded yarn with neutral colors, which I’ll be knitting up into a rectangular shawl/scarf for her.

Does everyone else always look at their latest yarn and think to themselves: This is the best one I’ve done yet? I do this every time. I think it’s a good sign that I keep pushing myself, keep myself excited.

So this is 4 oz of handpainted Blue Faced Leister (Banff from Spunky Eclectic) spun thick and thin then plied with clear nylon thread that I had strung with wooden beads. I’m not sure if I want to dunk it in water with the beads so right now I’m setting the twist on my Goko Swift.

Purty.

I’m messing around with my site off and on this weekend. I’m probably going to remove the skinning option since I can’t keep up with which ones are and aren’t working with the latest version of Movable Type. I know the comment cookies are all whacked out (and have been whacked out for a long time, cobbler’s kids’ shoes kind of thing) and I want to fix that. So this site might suddenly shift to a new design without notice, it might go to a dull design for a while. If it’s totally crazy-looking, just hold the ctrl key and click reload on your browser at the same time.