Grey Corriedale - I got 1 lb of it for a present and am just finishing up plying it. I loved it until the last bit of spinning. It just didn't feel quite so nice to spin then because it was a bit compacted. The bag looked like wads of sliver, but in the middle was the end part of the roving bump, still wound up. The inside part just was too squished to be as fun as I'd have liked. Plying is fine though and going fairly quickly. I'm trying to decide if I want to make something out of it or use it as the second yarn for a colour work sweater project. Decisions, decisions.
A scarf off the loom, finally. I put this one on the loom in the fall. I chose this yarn because hubby was with me and he noticed that I tend to gravitate towards certain colours and thought I should maybe try something different. So I did and I obviously chose wrong. That black is actually a pale grey and there is also a pale blue. I disliked every minute of weaving this scarf. To make it worse, I put two scarves on the loom thinking it was worth the experiment of making a slightly narrower scarf and getting two of them. I only have one scarf to show for the months of avoiding the project because I realized I'd never get anything else done if I tried for the two of them. Instead I finished the one today - a whole 1 inch to weave and then cut the darn thing off the loom. I didn't heave enough weft anyway, so I know I under estimated my yardage math! It's done and I have a pink, purple and black to put on the loom which looks like it might be fun!
Then because I was given some old acrylic lace and sock weight yarns, I oiled up the Legare 400 and cranked out a tube for making trauma teddies to donate to a local police force at a crank in event in May. I won't make as many as last year because there was a competition component which was a bit sketchy. The gal who won all the prizes also ran the contest. I'm not saying that she manipulated things, but the optics were not good for this and I don't want to go out of my way to be disappointed by the way things are run just in case it happens this year too. Plus it's a whole lot of work to finish up those little bears, cats and bunnies. I stopped making people dollies because finding suitable flesh coloured yarns is difficult and expensive around here. I can make animals in any colours I want!
