A Good Morning For A Little Of The Blogs I Love, Some CBC, And Some Spinning

I had a lovely comment this morning from that lady who got me started on blogging in the first place. So I responded in kind and wished that she would be more consistent in her blogging... (it only takes a couple of minutes to post... really!!! and I wish some of you would blog or blog more, as case may be). Then I sat here with the intention of catching up on some of my favorites.... Yarn Harlot this morning is worth reading. Oh how I hooted..... I can't believe anyone in their right mind would "dry" their sweater in the oven...
The House Of Edward was sweet too. (All men could do with reading that one).  I mean not every man gives cool gifts like, antique bronze kaleidoscopes, first edition fairy tales, hand painted lockets.


It is a blustery day and the wind takes the curtains in my room and blows them across our faces. Teapot dreamed that it was spruce trees as he walked through the woods. But I just woke right up as the curtain drifted across my face. It was lovely to know that the first Chinnook of the season is here and it is not even winter yet.  It would have been a good day for a canoe ride... too bad Teapot has to work.


I have been working on my level 5 homework. I have three samples done and I will be working on more today. It feels good to know that I am on my way.  So far the samples have been coming off the wheel with assurance that they will be just fine. Some of the nylon ones were under plied but this was quickly remedied and so, for the next one, I will know to put a little extra ply in it.

From left to right... Bamboo, Nylon, and Nylon/wool in 50/50%.

I am not overly gone on working with some of these fibres though I do have to say that there is a place for a little nylon in sock yarn.


Some people think that Bamboo is a new and lovely yarn with a renewable resource. Bamboo grows quick and therefore is a good alternative to some more natural yarns and certainly is better than acrylic which comes from petroleum based products.... but in the end Bamboo is highly processed and as a cellulose based yarn, is regenerated through an extruded process that is as highly manufactured and chemically nasty as any of the petroleum based products... in buying it... don't think that you are doing something good for the environment. It is not a green product. As a matter of a fact Soy silk and Bamboo and NGO (corn silk), and silk Latte, and Banana are all similar in how they are processed and as such are no better than any of the rayon type yarns.


(By the way the pink (yes pink) table cloth against which the previous picture was taken was a Thrift store find and  hand woven/hand made.... I can handle pink in that situation. )

So I am off to listen to some CBC while I spin a 80/20 nylon/wool blend yarn... I hope this one comes out as nicely as the previous two...


See ya.... (go have a look at Yarn Harlot... it will give you a good laugh.)