Seeing what comes out of TMKs special drying closet - her first hand-spun, plied wonderfulness was processed last night. Let's all cross our fingers and hope for good photos on Friday.
Meeting up with Patti at Village Yarn and Tea this weekend to pick up hand-dyed sock yarn. A big part of the push to finish my Olympic challenge on time is the reward of knitting with this goodness. Stay tuned for a Socks on Two Circs KAL in March.
Linda K. is back - ring the bells and paint the cows! There will be carding and all manner of fiber prep. Linda - I have a pound of washed but not fully picked alpaca - what to I need to do to be ready? Should I pre-dye some?
Hey, if you and LindaK are getting together to pick and card and prep, keep us in mind, 'kay? TMK has a buttload of fiber and roving that she doesn't know what to do with. And *I* sure as heck don't know what to do with it!
Posted by: Ryan | February 23, 2006 at 03:19 PM
Well Ryan, I was kinda inviting myself to your place for said carding extravaganza.
Posted by: Elaine | February 23, 2006 at 03:30 PM
It's dry! It's dry! It's got a few "boa constrictor eating a bunny" bumps in it. But overall I'm pretty pleased. We'll see how it knits up. (Why do I feel another tofu pie in my future??) TMK
Posted by: The Mysterious K | February 24, 2006 at 12:28 PM
Dollinks! I always planned for the 5 'o us to be in on this, so whenever the weather cooperates or the garage has enough space or whaddever I'm ready with carder. It's not a fine tooth carder, it's for medium weight wool but I've found you can blend fine and medium together on it. I have some un-anything-but-skirted alpaca too in a dark brown that I've been waiting to try on it. It's easy to clean fibers off the carder between batches too. Elaine, you don't have to wait 'til then to take delivery of the Pure Air though - I can always drop it off....heh....
El Kay
Posted by: Linda "K" | February 25, 2006 at 04:03 PM