I just had to ply the singles on my bobbins, because I needed those bobbins in order to practice long-draw. Right?
Right.
It’s 83 yards of two-ply yarn spun on a Louet S15, from a Louet Northern Lights roving (colourway: Fire Moss, the sample of dyed fibre I got after the spindling class Ceri and I took this past spring). I love how these colours have blended; they’re all my favourites (deep reds, mossy greens, bronze). I call this Autumn Sumac because it has all the colours of a sumac tree in fall. I want to roll in this colour. I think I’ll spin the other ounce I have and maybe knit a neckwarmer. I may buy a whole half-pound of the stuff and do the Wrist Warmer Cocoon Shrug pattern with it. I thought about keeping these singles aside and trying to find a silk thread in a bronze colour to ply with them, but I needed those bobbins. Ahem. (One could have wound the singles off onto cardboard tubes, but that takes time, and one is not patient.)
Time to close all the windows. The problem with the jump away from EDT is that the sun suddenly goes down earlier, ergo it cools off rather abruptly. I should probably also think about something to do for dinner. Tacos? Tacos.
That is so lovely! Autumn Sumac is the perfect name for it. (Those are some of my favorite colours as well.)
xox
Duly noted. Muah hah.
Seriously, I want to spin piles of this, and decorate my office walls with the skeins.
Louet Northern Lights, colour Fire Moss. Check.
Hah! But only if it’s less than the $30/half-pound we’d pay up here.
That was so NOT a hint, I swear!!
(In fact, if you so much as think of making me anything in the way of a gift I will be very upset. That sounds awful, I know, and I truly don’t mean it to; but, really, it is enough that you are making such a lovely gift for Devon. Anything more will make me feel very guilty. Perhaps it shouldn’t, but it just does. You know me well enough to understand why, I hope.)
xox
No no no no no! I in no way interpreted it as trawling! I can’t make any more gifts this Yule anyway, because I am swamped as it is. No, I was noting it for future reference in connection with pretty much anything I might want to gift you with, knitwear or otherwise. xoxo
Oh. Heh heh.
Sorry for jumping on you like that. Must work on those hair-trigger reactions.
xox
No, I understand. I’m the same way. Better to work it out right away than agonize in the background needlessly!