Cockstand and Clan Fraser/Team Jamie.

Cockstand is the color of the month sale feature for February in the shop so I didn’t take any of that to “test”. I did however take a bit of the BFL silk in Team Jamie. That stuff is divine and the colorway is pure fun.

I had a killer headache the night I took this home. Somehow I think it helped ease it a bit. I spun and plied all 2 ounces of it. I did not, however, measure the yardage. I was amazed that I was able to spin at all.

Now I’m working on finishing my Karaoke samples….

I was able to get 2 done so far….The fiber just arrived and I’m thinking of keeping it all for me….ok. I won’t do that. But I’m thinking of ordering some extra. I think I need a cami in this. I just need to pick a color. If you want to play with some too, check the shop at the end of the week, I’ll have it up.

Well. I did my best. Ok. Maybe not absolute best. I didn’t take a blow torch to it….If there had been one more handy I can’t say that I wouldn’t have tried it and well, the matches were handy enough. The tub will NOT catch fire, but it will melt. Also, if you leave it on a hot stove burner, I assume it will melt to the burner. But these are common sense things you already knew that you shouldn’t be doing. Right? Please, tell me you already knew that and didn’t need to hear from me that you don’t put rubber and plastic on hot burners.

I’m going to use the small tubs for dyeing. Maybe the big tubs too but the small tubs make a perfect sized tub for this stuff. First the proteins tuff didn’t dye it but what about the fiber reactive dyes? That stuff dyes everything!

it doesn’t dye this tub:

I also did a small batch of Osage Orange natural dyeing and it survived that. I just forgot to have photographic evidence of the dye in there. As you can see the tub is still as purple when I got it. I still hope someday to get dye to take to it so I’m going to do more different natural dyes and see if I can defeat it some day. It’s a challenge now and I cannot be beat by a little purple tub. It’s purple! I’m stronger than purple!

I wanted a black sweater because I love black and it’s a great neutral. A couple of years ago I made this:

Looks good on the dress form doesn’t it. If only it looked that good on me. That’s my smaller dress form from back in the day. Back in the day before I had babes. It’s so not a good representation of how it looks on me. It was a horrible fit. Too big in places and the ties cut in the wrong spots. FROG.

I didn’t frog it all the way. Just enough to start working it back down into a different sweater that doesn’t wrap. Which I decided would be best as a shrug/bolero creature.

I don’t know what I was looking at, I assure you, I wasn’t trying to look regal or anything. Maybe I was tring to distract you from the PJ’s. It was Sunday moring and I was still in my yoga pants and fluffy sheep slippers…..ok, full disclosure, I never got out of my PJ’s yesterday.

I’m thinking that I need to rip this as well. It’s too big across the back. I looked back (when I looked up the photos) and I had originally made it in 2006 when I was at my largest size in the past 10 years or so. Now that I think about it, other than pregnancy size, that was the largest, I’ve ever been. I got smaller and I’m shrinking more now so I’m thinking that I need to just ball up the yarn, all of it, and put it on the back burner. Or just make a small size sweater now and make sure I lose the last 20 to make it work…..

Since that’s probably a little cold for some of you….how about some Beach Day:

I’m working on weaving a scarf from a previous club offering of yarn and fiber. I’ve got one more scarf planned that uses fiber and yarn together. Then, I’ll be putting together a few kits that show the 3 different options (remember the first scarf?). I really like working with the fiber and yarn this way. It’s my new favorite for scarves.