Spinning Up A Storm.. Or At Least A Few Flurries

I've spun lots this last week or at least it seems that way. When I look in my book I am satisfied that I have made headway but yet I think I should be farther along in my assignment. I thought I was finished mohair but when I put my mohair/wool sample in my book it looked pathetic and so I proceeded to start again. Four mohair samples and I am finally finished them all.

I can safely say that I don't really care for mohair. It's not that I won't ever spin the stuff again but it's not something that I'll want to do too often. Mohair is good for specific purposes like a yarn that is really strong. I know I am going to be spinning mohair again for this assignment especially for the braid. I do have a lovely blend of mohair and silk which I will be using for the braid component of this year's work. But generally mohair is not a nice fibre to spin unless it is in a blend and only a small portion then.

I blended merino and polwarth and silk noils today and came up with a lovely nubbly yarn. The assignment called for a textured yarn using a silk blend. It is very pretty. I spun enough so that I can knit something with it too.

Tonight Hubby is off with the Rangers and I'm expecting he will be late. I am making bread as I am writing this because I will be helping to feed 40 men who are with the 4CRPG group arriving by ski doo tomorrow sometime. Since I have to stay up till the bread is baked I might as well spin and write. I spun some of the merino for Daughter #2's leg warmers. It is a lovely blue and will be soft and just right for what she wants.

I know I won't have much time to spin for the next few days as I will be busy helping out with the JCRs and with this Western Spirit expedition. Hubby is strung out and is very worried that it won't come off well. He should have left it in my hands. Make the best of it there is no snow... or a least very little. How in the world are they going to ski doo on back country that has no snow. It should be interesting.

I am staying up no matter how long it takes. I have to find out what happened. After dinner tonight I headed off to Knit Night. Hubby called me while I was there and said I had to come home since the guys were out in the bush stranded and he had to go pick them up. I am dying to hear this story. I'm sure that they had no choice but to stop since there just couldn't have been enough snow.

So here I sit baking and spinning in the quiet of the night waiting..... waiting..... and spinning. It's just too bad that while I'm spinning up a storm I couldn't spin up a few flurries to help these poor ski dooers on their way.