We paid the remaining balance for the cruise - which included extra excursions and train trips and stuff. It hurt a little financially. But I keep reminding myself how much fun we’re going to have.

And Cody’s passport is even in the mail. Now we just have to wait for mine, which might take a tad longer since I reported my old one lost (technically it is..somewhere in our house, it was expired anyway) and had a name change with the marriage stuff. It was more than a little unnerving sending original documents like our marriage license but I figure (in my naive way) that the guv’ment would pay for a replacement if they lose it. Haha right. But we paid a small freakin fortune to get these processed and mailed faster so I’m not worried about it.

So now all we have to worry about is getting the pets’ shots and into the fancy pet hotel, which is always shockingly expensive, but hey they take good care of the babies so it’s worth it.

Speaking of worrying about the babies, just in case you’re wondering: yes I have checked their food about the food recall. The kitties do eat Iams wet food so I checked the codes on the bottom of the can and while some cans did come from the same factory where there have been problems the dates were not in the bad range. My biggest concern is the 18 year old, Kurry, since her immune system would be the weakest but I’ve kept a close eye on her and she’s doing fine. In fact they’ve been a bit feistier than usual. Phunq was busy chasing his tail in the bathtub this morning and Kurry climbed up onto the windowsill in the office. Not bad for elderly kitties.

I put some stuff up in the etsy shop this weekend and had some good sales. It won’t sell unless you put it up there, I keep forgetting that part. haha no I just keep putting off taking photos. I love love that lightbox I can take photos any time day or night now.

Painted Desert
I had just finished navajo plying this one when I took some photos on Friday night and it’s already in the mail today. This is from spunky eclectic’s fiber of the month club. I can never remember what her colors are called so I just make my own names up.

Beachy Keen
This one’s already sold too. I dyed the roving a few months ago and spun it up a few weeks back. It has 400 plus yards.

Spring Rain
Another Spunky Eclectic club selection, this one hasn’t sold yet. It’s so soft. So so so soft.

I’ve been spinning such traditional stuff lately. I spun some thick and thin this morning with the latest Spunky roving. I think I’m going to ply it with some contrasting dark blue thread. Then I can be back in practice for the crazy spun stuff again - so I can make the milagro yarn I’ve been wanting to spin. Yes, Ramona, that milagro yarn!

Oh, and today is our 8th wedding anniversary but he has to work tonight so we won’t really celebrate it until the weekend. Really, we’re considering the cruise and the extra days in Vancouver and Seattle both of our anniversary and birthday presents this year. It’s the first (non-family oriented) vacation we’ve had together since our honeymoon in New Orleans so we’re really looking forward to it.

For the folks who have seen me knitting those Lorna’s Laces socks and asked where I got that special pink and brown striping colorway.. I found it!

Ashley and I are going to Camp Pluckyfluff in Taos in the fall! Woot! (We’re getting a hotel room though, gotta have my own bathroom.)

We saw Zodiac last night. Here were my exact thoughts as I watched it:

Ooh! Fun music
Hey, this is actually pretty good.
Damn, Mark Ruffalo is doing an excellent job.
Look! It’s that guy! (That happened a lot)
Ouch, we still have another hour to go.
What? Why is Jake Gyllenhaal not aging like everyone else?
Woowoo! Mark Ruffalo in his underpants!
Ew, that ending was a bummer.

Yep that was pretty much it.

So this weekend was..interesting.

Saturday Cody didn’t have to work because he had to work an extra day at a different time so we went to the knitting group at Napoli for a while. I brought my wheel and had posted a note in the Tuesday group’s yahoo mail that I was going to be there with my wheel.

Then I worried that I sounded all egotistic because I was assuming people would care that me and my wheel were doing anything ever. But people actually showed up because my wheel and I were there! Whee! So I showed some spin-curious people a few tricks on the wheel. Beth was there with her wheel and a woolee winder which is a neato bobbin gadget that I haven’t been able to buy yet. And I got to see Adam who I hadn’t seen Ms. Harlot had been in town!

I also got to see Erin whom I haven’t seen since, geez I don’t even know. I’ve been mentally calling this “the baby knitting group” because there have been three pregnancies in the last year. Erin’s alleged girl (they’re not positive it’s a girl) is due next! And I got to meet a sweet little baby boy who’s just two months old I think? He was very cute.

Then Cody and I went to Village Wools to buy gifts for my knitflix swap partner (No worries it’s not a secret swap). And I spent too much. Again. THEN we went down to Los Lunas to see the in-laws and get haircuts. My mother-in-law is our hairdresser but it’s ok she’s a retired professional. It’s nice to have short hair that doesn’t tangle again. We also ate at a local favorite called Benny’s whose burritos Cody’s been eating since before he was born. Then we drove home and went to bed.

I woke up Sunday morning with a HORRIBLE stomachache. Blah! Benny’s tried to poison me!

So I was in bed asleep or awake and wishing I were dead for about 24 hours until Monday morning. I was better but woozy Monday but we did get a few errands run that we do on Cody’s “weekend” days (for those who don’t know he works a totally freakish schedule so our “weekends” are different than most people’s).

Tuesday I went back to the chiropractor who’s really surprised with how quickly I’ve been improving! Seriously, my neck is so much better. You wouldn’t believe the difference.

Then we mailed out my knitflix swap box, I hope she likes it!! I’ve been calling it an unashamedly girly. I don’t want to give too much away though so I’ll wait until it gets to Gwen to give the details. We also mailed out the vesper sock yarn that was snagged within hours of my putting it up for sale, which wasn’t a surprise at all. That stuff is like jade or somethin.

Tuesday night we went to the Stitch n Bitch at Flying Star where I felt well enough to have the Late Autumn Harvest again - although I had to send it back and have them cook it more the patties were a bit raw in the middle and I’m not gonna get sick again!

I had a great time hanging out with Ramona, Beth, Morgen, Cari (who gave me a present from Village and looked lovely in her new Clapotis!!) and our blogless friends who are on the verge of converting any day now. Hope I didn’t forget anyone I usually get a little slap happy at these things. Morgen, who had a really cool reconstructed sweater on, is our latest peer pressure victim! Welcome aboard!

We discussed blogs, the big Tilli Tomas pricing scandal, the upcoming Taos festival, Village’s new digs, a group trip to Good Fibrations in Edgewood, the Sheep to Shawl store at the state fair, creative export businesses, and someone talked about knitting underpants out of lavender-scented yarn. Oh yeah, that was me.

So today I’ve been finishing up the knit portion of my funky scarf. I’m being awfully vague about this scarf aren’t I? Well, it’s kind of weird and hard to describe. And I’m still not absolutely sure it’s going to work out. But don’t worry! I’ll write all about it when I finish it.

Then I put some handspun for sale in the etsy shop.

I put Sugar Plum Fairy back up for sale

Carnival Flirt

Schmoop

and last but absolutely not least,

Bernadette

It reminded me of the Seurat painting which made me think of Sunday in the Park with George so I named it after Bernadette Peters. But right now I want to dance around the house with it and sing that Four Tops song instead. Is it odd for one to fall in love with one’s own yarn? Is that some kind of weird fiber Pygmalion thing?

Bernadette!
You’re the soul of me!

Bernadette!
You mean more to me than a skein of yarn was ever meant to be!

I love that song. Ok you all think I’m really weird now.

If you’re going to run away why don’t you go look at the scarf Holly made using the Jackpot yarn! Isn’t it pretty?

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.

**funky scarf swap partner! I’ve emailed you back again! Please check your spam filter if you don’t hear from me today **

So I’ve been working on some custom orders the last few days. Some specifically asked for green so I decided to play with variations on that color with roving and sock yarn. It was fun. They’re all still drying and they’re in the bathroom so they’re badly lit with the flash but here are a few photos I just took.

I have some other spinning jobs to do today. Doing some neutral toned beaded yarn today. I’m very excited about all the work I’ve been getting lately and really hopeful that I’ll be able to pay for a good chunk of the cruise with my own fiber earnings.

But before I go do some work there’s something I have to get off my chest. Project Runway is starting to piss me off. (Get it? Piss and Vinegar?)

Now I’ve been a loyal viewer since the first season. I don’t blog about it much because other people write things that are far more interesting about the show than what I could come up with. But I’m a lifelong expert on the recent issues of weight that have come up on the show lately and I have to admit that I’m getting pretty disappointed in what I’m seeing.

Last week there was the whole size four being called “Zaftig”, Heidi intimating she’d rather be dead than thought a plus size, the “aufed” designer blaming having a “fat” model on being kicked off the show in an interview. And I don’t think she was *that* far off of the mark, either. I got the impression that she was tossed off the show because she designed something that made her model look fat and GODS FORBID someone looked fat.

But I wasn’t that surprised. This is an industry that is designed to screw with women’s heads and their concepts of self, and finding new things to sell to convince them that they won’t look old or fat if they use or wear this or that. It’s the first time it was really out in the open on this particular show but since Project Runway is about the fashion industry I’ve always sensed a little of that attitude floating underneath.

As a matter of fact I wrote about this issue during Season One: Wendy Pepper may have been a jerk, or someone whose footage was manipulated, probably somewhere in between, but whoever designed her clothes usually had various body types in mind and I thought that was commendable.

This week’s episode really bothered me on a lot of levels. When the moms and sisters first came out I was delighted. FINALLY the designers were going to be designing for normal sized people. Then the whining started. “Waaah I have to design for fat people!” Boo freakin hoo guys who do you think is going to buy the clothes when you work at International Concepts?

They’re supposed to be such impressive designers and they can only design for human coat hangers? Not very impressive to me. Allow me to quote myself from February 2005:

I probably wouldn’t wear any of the clothes that came down that runway. If I had to choose one or go out naked I would put on Uli’s. At least she took the body into consideration with modern design. It’s sad really because these are supposed to be the top designers and only one could come up with a good design? Shame on you all. Back to remedial body concept for you! Get ye to figure drawing classes! Do they even require those for fashion majors? If they don’t they really should.

I don’t know much about fashion trends. But I frequently get compliments on what I’m wearing because I usually wear something that is fun, reflects my personality, and usually deals well with my short and stout body. I’m not going to kid myself that I’ll wear a magic shirt and suddenly lose 100 pounds but one can still be big and look good. Seriously. And it’s not really that friggin hard to do. Anyone could learn tips like these from watching a few episodes of What Not to Wear (at least the English one) or, hell, pick up the “Big Girl Knits” book there are some great tips in there!

So here are a few alternative suggestions for the designs that I can remember. I’m not going to get into colors, I’m just interested in the shapes here. If you click on the photos you’ll be taken to the store where you can buy them.

Kayne’s model would’ve looked gorgeous with an empire waist with a V neck. They usually flatter any body type. Especially ones with good boobs and pretty skin like Michael’s mom. Rather than cropped tapered pants (a worrying trend which I’m going to just ignore like I’m ignoring the return of the gauchos), a boot-legged, flat-fronted pant. How cute would she have looked in this?

Robert could’ve done kimono sleeves without making a tent. I think his model could’ve looked lovely and floaty but still had a waist with a crossover design like this top but with some kimono sleeves added and some good shaping in lieu of the belt. And to balance out the top, a straight skirt to a floaty decorated hem with lots of fabric scraps (geometric as opposed to Santino-y) at the bottom.


I think that would have presented the interesting avant-garde kind of floaty shape Vincent’s sister seemed to want without having it be so top-heavy and tentlike

Now, the inevitable Jeffrey. I think the major mistake he’s made on this show (aside from being mean to someone’s mom and a lot of other people on camera) is losing sight of his punk rock roots. He’s supposed to be “Mr. Rockstar designer” but I have yet to see anything that lives up to that kind of title really, aside from the really obvious neck tattoos and bad attitude. Angela’s mom, having nothing to lose but not looking like a good sport, would probably have enjoyed if he wanted to play “Dress mommy in punk rock clothes” if he’d been nice about it. And wouldn’t that have been fun? This was supposed to be his unique perspective that got him on the show right? Adding some punk spice to high fashion? What a wasted opportunity to make it fun and look like a classy guy with a good sense of humor. What a shame. And don’t give me any bullshit former addict alcoholic excuses, that should make you have even more regard for human frailties. Anyway, this is what I would’ve put on Angela’s Mom.

I do think that he was on the right track with the neckline, even if he had said that ugly thing about her body issues. She was wearing a more demure neck than the other moms and I don’t think she would’ve been comfortable for it to be too low cut. But there are ways around that. I keep thinking of the new Glampyre Stitch Diva sweater design - a very low cut worn over a higher cut. With the right waist shaping it could look really nice on a plus size body. I came up with two options there. Of course, he couldn’t have knit a sweater or sewn a button down and vest in that time, but the basic idea of low cut worn over high cut with good shaping is what I’m after. I think the pants were where the color compromise could have come in. A sheer layer over a solid layer (like the pants on the right) but in wide legged pants (like the pants on the left) kind of thing. She would’ve looked longer and leaner with them, and not have to show any skin.

They’re just my suggestions. But I think they’re pretty good ones. I don’t have twelve hours to sew them and know absolutely nothing about construction so they could be impossible ideas. I doubt it though. My point really is that there are ways to dress larger women that aren’t mumus or boring. And I think it’s really sad that these designers don’t know that. If they don’t know that, how are people who don’t know anything about clothing supposed to know that?

So, of course, the designer that had the thinner model won and the one with the fatter model lost. Ho hum. Talk about baaaauuuring, Heidi.

Here are some good plus size clothing stores:
Avenue - I get my pants from here. I love their bootcut jeans and yoga pants.
Torrid - love their tops. I’m young and still have my punkish roots to really enjoy their stuff. They have a half-off clearance sale every month that keeps me in some fun shirts. I have to be careful to not go too young here. I don’t have the boobs for halter tops and probably never did to be honest. They also have some great bras.
Kiyonna- Not quite as well-known but really great, simple designs that are pretty current. I have some of their older designs that have held up really well too.
Junonia - plus sized active wear. Some great yoga and swimming stuff.
Silhouettes - some older stuff (read: boring preppy crap) but there are some slick designs and affordable prices.
Nordstrom - is probably the most popular plus size shop for designer names. If I needed a formal dress I’d go here.
I personally don’t like Lane Bryant because I found their clothes fall apart sooner than the others. So those were my resources for dressing the ladies.

I finally got my real camera out and took photos of some yarn today. I’ll be putting the ones that are for sale up in the shop tomorrow so let me know today if you want it first!

Here are the yarns that are for sale:

Strawberries and Cream with Marmalade

It’s hard to photograph this yarn properly but I’m going to get some more photos later. It’s a really nice, evenly spun and strong sport weight with shades of orange, red, with lighter bits in between with little spirals that I like so much. Very soft Finn wool that I dyed with food-safe dyes.
144.48 yards
20.00 + 4.30 shipping (9.00 international shipping)
first to comment or email gets the sale

Lemonade with Blueberries

This is also handpainted Finn but this one has been spun in a thick and thin style with lots of soft tufts and tightly spun thin bits to hold it together. Lots of yellow and white with blues and a bit of green. I’m working on a thinner companion yarn using roving from the same dye pot that will be sold separately.
120 yards
20.00 + 4.30 shipping (9.00 international shipping)
back on sale but I sold its skinny sister

Old School Necktie

Handdyed solid silver plied with handdyed solid crimson. Reminds me of an old school kind of men’s necktie. I keep thinking of Salinger prep school boys.
135.88 yards worsted weight
$ 15.00 + 4.30 shipping (9.00 international shipping)
first to comment or email gets the sale

There are more photos of these yarns in the new For Sale flickr set

This is some 2-ply I spun for another sort of charitable thing that I’m going to mail out Friday. It’s spun from some handpainted BFL, my July installment from Amy Boogie’s Spunky Fiber of the Month Club. The yarn is just under 300 yards and will make some gorgeous socks for its recipient. I’m very proud of this and I have to admit I’m kind of sad to see it go.

And these are the two rovings that I painted for the people who won my prize donations to the Dyeorama prize drawing. I gave each the option for roving or handspun and they both chose roving. Yay! That’s easy to do!

These are also going into the mail on Friday. (I have two tons of things to mail and can’t really afford to spend that much on postage until after Thursday night’s paycheck)

Snb tonight! Ms Harlot on Thursday!

Now that the dyeorama stuff is calming down (no new emails in the inbox for almost 24 hours now! wahoo!) I’ve found a lot of spare time. So I’ve been spinning again and dyeing roving to spin. I finally finished that superfine (for me anyway) green silk blend 2ply too!

I’ll put this yarn up in the shop in a day or so. Unless you’d like to buy it directly?

Here are the details

Green Tea Frappuccino.

70/30 Merino Silk handblend - mossy greens with white silk, shots of red and yellow for interest.

Would make gorgeously soft bedsocks.

mostly dk weight 2-ply

252.84 yds - 5 ounces

$36.00 + 4.30 domestic shipping or 9.00 international shipping.

This yarn is so soft, it makes you wanna slap your mama.

Um. Happy Mother’s Day by the way!

I’m having a small Katherine Hepburn film festival in my den today. I watched The Rainmaker earlier and I’m midway through Without Love. I’ll probably watch Little Women later on.

Hello!

Just a quick post because I want to go work on my second cabled sock. But I was planning on adding this to my Etsy shop and wanted to give you guys a chance to reserve it.

This is probably the last of my March pink/red project spectrum items. Oddly, I never got my planned project spectrum projects going. But I made a bunch I hadn’t planned. So this is a pink superwash merino spun randomly with white tencel. Meaning it’s washable and will not felt. And shiny

notice: zee yarn has now been sold!

With a complete lack of creativity I’m calling it Frosted Pink Lipstick. Cody wanted to call it Earthworm Primavera. Don’t worry he got the geeeeroooooss look.

It’s bulky to superbulky in weight
330.24 yards
30.00 US Dollars plus 4.00 shipping (shipping only if you’re not in my knitting group, of course)
Leave a comment if you want to grab it first! I’ll wait until Friday to put it in the shop.

Speaking of my knitting group, we had a great surprise party for Jamie’s birthday at Seasons last night. She loved the super secret yarn I made in her favorite colors Ramona took some great photos that really capture the fun and overall bawdy mood (even without any dancing nekkid men). You still have a little time to go wish her a happy birthday. She’s a great, smart, hyper, hilarious, friendly woman who could get the earth to turn backwards if she thought it should. I’m very, very glad to have met her and so thankful she started the Stitch n Bitch here last year. Without her I never would’ve met all these amazing women that are good at prying me out of the house even when I feel grumpy and hermitlike. Which can be pretty often.

Ok, off to knit on the cabled sock.

I’m really proud of this stuff. It’s the craziest yarn I’ve ever spun ever. Clearly I’ve been taking a stab at the freestyle spinning in the style of Pluckyfluff, Material Whirled, Insubordiknit to name just a few.

It’s called Drag Queen Grover. I was talking about it the other day and the photos really don’t do it justice. I spun some Merino that was dyed varying shades of blue thick and thin style, spun randomly (using my hell’s angel hair method) with some locks of fluffy mohair that was also in varying shades of blue. Then I strung a bunch of iridescent acrylic beads onto clear nylon thread and plied the thick and thin yarn with the thread. It created a sort of boucle looking effect. With occasional beads. And sometimes I twisted several beads together creating a little necklace hanging off. Crazy stuff. Looks like a muppet in drag. And it’s blue like Grover so…Grover in drag.

I hope I don’t get sued by the Sesame Street people. There’s an extrordinary amount of this yarn considering it’s a novelty freestyle type yarn: 160 yards. More than twice what you usually see for sale. Beverly thinks it would make a HELL of a One Skein Wonder

This stuff is just nutty. The mohair is really soft and fluffy as is the merino. The beads make cool clicky sounds. It’s not nearly as tangled as it seems in the photos. The sun was at a very odd angle when I took these.

Anyway, I’m planning on selling this for seventy bucks. But wait! If you buy in the next ten minutes (ok not really I’ll be offering this the whole time) I’ll throw in these two matching sample skeins!

The one on the left is a fifteen yard skein is a single ply spun from just the blue mohair locks. The one on the right fifteen yards and is the mohair spun with random locks THEN plied with the singly ply of the mohair locks. So that’s 30 yards of matching yarn IN ADDITION to the 160 yards of the beaded stuff. Possible material for the cuffs of the OSW? You decide!

All that for the low low price of 70 US dollars plus four dollars shipping! I’ll be posting it on the Etsy site on Monday so let me know in the comments if you want to buy it first!

I seem to have been in a blue mood lately because I also took four commercial yarns in varying shades of blue and plied them together to create a really cool super super bulky yarn.

This yarn has one strand each of: imported electric blue brushed mohair, slatey prussian blue brushed merino, teal brushed suri alpaca, and baby blue plied cotton (leftover from my ballet t). It will continue to fluff out over time creating a really interesting depth of colors as they all fluff and blend together. It’s just under 50 (49.88 to be exact) yards. Using much larger needles, like 35s and 50s, this would create a great scarf.

I’m calling it Extreeeeeeme Blue. Yes, that’s a Harold and Kumar reference. I’m a dork. I’ll be putting that up in the Etsy shop as well selling it for 25 US dollars plus 4 dollars shipping. So let me know if you want to snag it first!

So, with my silly sales pitches overwith I’ll show off the Marilyn sweater that Scout got from Anna for me. Thank you Anna!

It’s really nice isn’t it? And I got Cody to take a photo of both my hands at the same time wearing the armwarmer things!

Before

(That shirt says Leeroy Jenkins Whelp Training Academy - as in Leeeeroy Jeeeeenkins. I stole it from Cody. Well, he wears my free to stitch free to bitch and craft pirate shirts)

After

Think there are enough photos in this post? I’m not sure. Oh, and I finished the first sock of what I’m calling the “Ironic Cabled Socks” and I’m well into the second one. And I’ve finished spinning a good amount of some pink superwash and white tencel blend. Not quite as funky as Drag Queen Grover up there but pretty nice.

Ok I feel all caught up now I’m going to go do some sock knitting.

Hmm well I was hoping to post some lovely photos of Cody’s frankenstein fuzzyfeet all fulled and shaped. But, er, it didn’t work out. I overfelted them and now neither of us can get the tighter manos heel around our ankles. So if anyone with tiny feet, like a women’s size 6 or so, wants some very unique wool slippers let me know. Or I’m just going to cut them into strips and do something else with them.

The good part is I have something else to post about. And it even falls into the Project Spectrum category! It’s yarn! Yay! I’m getting back into the spinning! And let me say, I’m really glad. Spinning is so calming and I’m always really proud of what I come up with. This time it was some great 50% merino 50% tencel that I’d picked up from Winderwood farms last fall. I spun it thin enough to feel comfortable plying it.

So I borrowed Beverly’s giganto plying head from her lendrum wheel while she’s out of town and made a pretty big batch of two ply. 294.12 yards to be exact. Although I have some more on one bobbin that I’m going to try Andean plying or maybe just wind half of it into a ball and ply it that way. So there’ll probably be about 315 - 325 yards altogether. Not bad.

edited (again) -

I ended up winding the remaining single ply into a center pull ball and plied from the center and outer edge of the ball. That’s a nifty little process I’d heard about from the people at sheep to shawl last year. I learned so much that day. Much more than just how to spin with a wheel.

Anyway, there was more than I estimated for that second skein - 39.56 yards! So the total yardage is 333.68.

I wound the plied yarn into a skein using my trusty Goko swift this morning.

What I love about my Goko is it’s so unique. It makes just winding or unwinding a skein a pretty little sculpture. Those Japanese really know from the aethetic don’t they?

The tencel really made the shades of pink and orange shine. They’re like silk. But softer. And shinier. And silkworm friendly. The colors and the shine made me think of fabrics from India. So I’m calling it Bombay Dreams.

The bad news is Beverly has first dibs on this yarn. The good news is if she doesn’t want it I’ll be happy to sell it to you.

edit: Now if Miss Beverly doesn’t want it Miss Pamela will buy it. Yay!

Send me an email or leave a comment if you’re interested. I’ll let you know when she decides and we can work out a bill on paypal or a special listing on etsy or something. I’ll be selling it for 60 US dollars. That will include the yarn I’m going to be plying today so that will be 333.68 yards for 60 dollars - that’s less than 20 cents (17 cents to be exact) per yard. It winds out at about 10 wraps per inch - worsted to heavy worsted weight.

This stuff is so pretty. And shiny. Did I say how happy I am to be spinning again?

Also, I’ve been knitting the little ugg baby booties for a pregnant cousin-in-law. Ramona gave me the yarn that was leftover from knitting hers. And I did go ahead and buy some more so I could be sure I had enough for the hat too. I finished one bootie last night and these things are huge. If I do it again I’m going down a needle size or two.

I’m glad Chloe won. Not only because she was “anyone but Santino” but because I really like her model. She has such a unique look I’ve been rooting for her all season. I think it’s fun to see untraditional looking people model. Makes me think that even normal people might be able to wear those clothes too. Which is why I really like the models from the Interweave magazines. Some are pear-shaped or have big shoulders. Some even have *gasp* bellies! Models with bellies not modelling fat girl clothes! Whoda thunk it?