Wow, apparently quitting my job lit a fire under me to get tons of things done, craft-wise.  I set up a temporary dye kitchen in the shop this weekend and happily played mad scientist while Chris did sawmill-ish things.  I finally got around to dyeing that Licorice twist yarn I bought ages ago…the handpainted reminds me of a great big striped Easter egg.  I’m not crazy about it, but I figure it will be suitable for mini-humans.  I also handpainted some superwash merino and the last of my Corriedale top.  I’m still in the midst of spinning both, but they refused to be left out of the picture.

Obviously, I was on a springy color kick.  The corriedale is being spun up as somewhat slubby exaggerated thick & thin single, the roving doesn’t really suit an even tightly spun plyed yarn.  The Merino is spinning up at around 8-12 WPI…i’m getting better!  I haven’t checked to see how much yardage I have on the thick & thin yet, but I have around 30 yards of the merino so far…i’ll probably end up with around 120-ish yards when i’m done spinning.

I also have some FOs; I finished the Calorimetry about an hour after my last post, and the Hufflepuff hat later that night.  No pictures yet though; I still need to block the hat and the Calorimetry would require me to put some makeup on and look generally presentable.

AND.  Be proud of me!  Even though i’ve been drooling over yarn almost non-stop, I haven’t ordered any.  I did, however, give in and order 2lbs of ecru merino from Paradise Fibers.  In my defense, I was paging through Spin to Knit trying to explain spinning wheels to Chris and I just happened to land on the pattern page for Forsythia.  Regardless of the fact that A.) I live in Texas and B.) It’s the middle of April and boil your blood weather is just around the corner, I decided I absolutely must. knit. now.  So in order to do that, I of course had to have some fiber to spin, and there you go.  At least I stopped myself before I added 10 tons of other stuff I really don’t need to my cart, right?