2.5 Pounds of Yarn Heaven!


This last summer while spending a few relaxing days in Oregon, I met Sharon Allen, a retired shearer and fiber 'farmer'. She had a treasure trove of wonderful -- ready to spin fiber. I just finished spinning her blend of white alpaca and fine white wool. It is creamy, and silky soft. I'll have enough for 2 small sweaters (if I'm lucky).

Here's a picture of the whole sheebang. I decided to drape the washed skeins over the wheel and place the twisted hanks on the floor. The picture really doesn't do handspun justice, you just have to see it to want to stroke it, smell it, and KNIT it! Yes -- I am a little obsessive about fiber -- but really what normal person wouldn't be????

As I was re-skeining, even Molly (the dog) became bewitched -- she laid her face in the folds of the skeins, sighed and fell fast asleep. Sushi (or "catzilla" as we like to call her) was eye-balling the twisted hanks, and trying to calculate if she had the jawpower and body mass to make off with one. She settled on a small ball of yarn between my feet (romney) that I was using to tie the skeins, one moment there, the next -- gone. Drop all the work, go running after the cat, catch her in my room batting around her prize, take it -- ohhh she's not happy about that, rewind it and back to work. As I'm typing this, Sushi, un-deterred by her earlier failure to capture and keep her yarn prize has attempted to pull one of the newly twisted skeins out of the paper bag at my feet -- curses - skumped again!! What can I say -- the yarn is just YUMMY!

I'm still trying to figure out a name for my line of yarn -- suggestions welcome
  • Twisted Turnings?
  • Dakotas Twists?
  • Twist and Turn
  • Twisted -- designer yarns
  • Spinolicious

Comments

Shelly said…
That picture of handspun looks luscious!!!!! You do realize that Sushi just might enjoy YOUR chase and capture better than her own! The game plays on!
March 27, 2008 at 8:19 AM
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