Can you believe I have more fiber?

I had ordered 2 fleeces and some Llama fiber from someone on one of the Yahoo lists and it arrived today!!!

The fleeces are a black (very black) Ramboulett (sp?) and a morrit Merino and they are beautful. Llama is something I have less experience with but it seems like it may have a lot of second cuts to me . . . . Is there a Llama expert in the “house”? I’d love to get another opinion . . . I’ll try to take photos to post on Monday.

I wish I could just stay home and work with fiber today, that is what I’m really in the mood to do, however, we are off to a cookout in a few minutes so at most I’ll get to do a little sock knitting while I’m out . . . .

Oh, I almost forgot to mention, A and I went shopping for the “fixin’s” to do our dye workshop. We got a great deal on dye pots!!!! Kmart currently has on sale for $20 a set of stainless steel stockpots. An 8 qt, a 12 qt. and a 16 qt with a bonus 7 piece untensil set! They aren’t the thickest stainless I’ve seen, but they should work just fine for dyeing and that gives us three pots to work with which should be just right! We also got tongs, veggie steamer baskets ($3 @ Christmas Tree shops) stainless measuring spoons, a small diet scale, and a large plastic tub, because we all know that every project requires its own plastic tub ;) So now we are just missing a few easily obtained odds and ends and we will be ready to dye some fiber!!!!! Only problem is I’m not sure I can wait another 2 whole weeks!!!!!!

And we watched the video that came with my loom last night, I have a much better idea about the whole warping issue now and I may even try it some eveing this week! I’m thinking a scarf for practice and I think I may have just the yarn to do a nice long scarf with! It was suppose to be the vogue knitting on the go Turkish scarf for my brother, but I never did get around to making it and I’m just not that interested in the pattern (color work is currently not my thing . . . ) so perhaps I can weave a scarf out of it instead? I have another yarn that should go well with it that is definately warp yarn . . . .hmm, perhaps that will be my Mondday night while the DH is at work project? . . . .

Funny how typing things here makes me think differently about my projects. I tend to get all kinds of ideas just by “thinking out loud” on this page . . . and lucky you, getting to read my mental ramblings! Isn’t this fun? Just a little peak into how my thought process works . . . jumping randomly from one topic to thenext and then back again . . .

Well, off to get ready for the cookout! Tomorrow I’m out all day for a spinnng gathering in RI so more posts on Monday. Have a great weekend!