Spring Is In The Air

I think, at least it seems to be mind you there are no flowers yet..... but the snow on the roof goes drip, drip, drip, everyday and I am starting to walk around during the day fully dressed without socks...... now that really says spring to me.

Yesterday I picked myself up again and had a lovely afternoon sitting here in the sunshine with a movie on (The Da Vinci Code) and some silk for spinning. The silk that I dragged out of my stash turned out not to be green undulating to purple but two separate batches of rovings.... green undulating to gold and purple undulating to beige..... I chose the purple and it turned out lovely though not quite as colourful as I thought. I finished my knitted sample last night and am now washing and blocking it. The skein is labeled and ready to go in the book. I am also setting in my book the woven sample from a few weeks ago...


I have the write up done but I didn't print it and actually put it into my binder so that will be one of my many jobs to do today. I also want to card rolags today with Bombyx silk and Pima cotton for the silk/cotton sample... I would like to do that sample over the weekend at the retreat.

Ah yes... the retreat...... Tomorrow I am headed off to the Blueberry for a short retreat. I will be spending the weekend in a log lodge north of FSJ overlooking a river (frozen) and spinning and laughing etc.... I am taking black alpaca for spinning for the big j.c., the Bombyx and Pima rolags if I can finish it today and silk coccoons for a mawatta. I will also take those damn lace gloves that I have been working on since Judas was in diapers. Who knows.... I might even get some of it done!

I have been in charge of food for the Blueberry retreat this year and am going to have to do some cooking today. Pub night on Friday night and no we won't be drinking.... just eating pub style food..... Breakfast is a whatever you can drum up affair.... Saturday lunch is soups and buns..... Saturday night is ham and scalloped potatoes..... Sunday is always a "must go" day..... The log lodge is a great place to have a retreat because they have individual rooms, showers ( a must), and a huge room in which to set up your spinning and weaving junk and spread out completely.

So I guess I had better get to it.