Nowhere Slow Handmade

yesterday (the 28th) i measured my amaryllis and it was 10.5 ” from the top of the bulb to the tip.  today – it’s 13″!

the snow is melting – though it’s supposed to snow on wednesday.  

last night i navajo plied one of my bobbins full of green yarn.  i don’t have a real lazy kate, so i improvised:

it didn’t go super smoothly, but it wasn’t painful.  i started plying on the larger ratio on my high speed whorl and it was too fast.  so i switched over to the whorl that came with the wheel and found that slower was easier.

here is a picture of it, though it’s not wet finished so looks in disarray.

here is the orange/red yarn i have been working on – the merino cashmere from the previous post.

i love how it turned out.  it’s very soft and not ‘frizzy’.

and here is buku’s picture of a yarn turd.  he thought it was pretty funny.

’til then…