ms. mary thursday.
ms. mary amaryllis is up to 17.75 inches!
i just got this fiber. it’s lapoli’s fiber of the month colorway for march:
i am making a two-ply. i experimented and rolled into a ball so i could ply from the two ends – this makes it so there is no yarn leftover after plying.
it was kind of a mess to do as it kept twisting on itself before it got to the orifice of my wheel.
and i’m handcarding and blending my leftovers for a self-striping yarn:
my rolags:
’til then…
amaryllis wednesday.
mary (what everyone called my grandmother, though her real name was emerenciana – yeah, try to pronounce that!) the amaryllis has grown 1.5″ since yesterday.
she still looks the same, only taller (my grandmother was not tall), so i won’t bore you with another picture.
but i will bore you with this:
my navajo 3-ply all wet finished and looking fabulous! 4 oz. of superfine merino produced a total of 172 yards.
and i started this:
i split the 4 ounces in half and am spinning two singles. this is the fiber i got from northern light fiber co.
’til then…
amaryllis tuesday.
amaryllis update – 15″ and going strong. it may bloom soon as the bulb looks like it’s filling out.
i am wet finishing my two bobbins of green navajo-plied yarn. the second bobbin went easier than the first and came out more balanced. i will post a picture tomorrow when it is dry.
’til then…
amaryllis update.
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…
amaryllis war.
one of my best friends will be giving up her swimsuit and tan and heading to alaska this summer. from the far southeast (st. croix, USVI) to the far far northwest. i’m so excited! she got a job working at a fishing lodge/boat take out on the kasilof (in kasilof). we will be only 4 hours apart – and i don’t mean by time zone hours!
this has to be my favorite picture of us. that’s her in the background… haha!
on the bobbins:
i just realized that i never took a picture of the fiber when i got it (and i like to plug who i bought it from), so i had to steal this picture off her etsy site. i got this fiber at the end of january from dyeing for fibre works on etsy. it is a superwash merino cashmere and i love the bright colors!
raw:
cooked:
this is the super fine homegrown merino i showed in the previous post. i plan to navajo three-ply it (keep your fingers crossed that all goes well). i LOVE this color!
off the bobbins:
a total of 662 yards of 2-ply wooly sockweight awesomeness:
328 yards of single-ply handspun falkland wool:
please check my etsy site (click here or the link on the right) if you are interested in any of these yarns!
about a month ago i sent my sister an amaryllis and kept one for myself. we had one on the boat last winter, it grew, but never bloomed. i think there was too much exposure to salt water.
my sister planted hers, but i hear it’s not going as well. i don’t think she understands photosynthesis – a plant needs light ashley! and water, so stop neglecting it! and now she posted a fake picture of one on facebook and wanted me to believe that it was real. so now we are having an amaryllis war. it’s so on!
i planted mine about two weeks ago, and i think the recently extended daylight hours are helping it move right along.
this is it on the 25th:
and today, the 27th:
in yo’ face ashley!
’til then…
