I’m very excited about my newest fleece! It is a gray fleece from an alpaca named Prince. I was able to meet Prince during a farm tour and he is a beautiful boy with various shades of gray through his coat. It will be very interesting to get this washed and see how it looks spun up.
I was dead heading the Shasta Daisy and accidentally pulled instead of pinched. The section of daisy broke off at the base. Oops.
I noticed that there were root nodes at the base, so it is now sitting in a glass of water near a window to see if it will root out.
I’m watching my container garden as the beans and pumpkins I planted as a fall crop come up.I have beans on the bean bush and flowers on the pumpkins!
I put our trail cam back down in the woods in a dry stream bed… awhile ago. Life’s been busy and I hadn’t checked it in nearly a month. Hm. There were over 300 pictures. Yes, mostly of cats, raccoons, armadillo, and opossum, but there were also fox and coyote! The coyote picture was pretty blurry except for the long legs, but I had the best fox picture so far.
There was also a sequence of shots of one of the neighborhood cats trying to get a rodent (I’m assuming it was a rat). We didn’t get the outcome of the standoff, but the rat holds its own for several minutes.
I’m looking for a light weight idea for a pattern for my spun alpaca yarn. I keep coming back to lace. Personally I do not consider myself a lace person; I don’t tend to buy clothes with lace trim, and I don’t care for frills. But Texas is hot most of the time, and thick warm clothing is only necessary for a short span. What am I going to do with all this yarn I’m spinning? Which is why I keep coming back to lace. It can be warm when made from insulating fibers, but not too warm.
When looking for lace ideas, I came across the idea of a möbius scarf. This is not a new idea, I have just apparently been hiding under a rock (not entirely metaphorical there). The idea is that the garment is created from the center out, and each row adds to the top and bottom since the edge of a möbius strip is continuous. Really, really cool concept. And it can be done in crochet, knitting, or nälbinding. Sweet. I did have some trouble wrapping my brain around it, so rather than diving in with my good yarn, I tried a pattern with some wool sock yarn from my stash.
I really enjoy the long edge and chance to get each row firmly under my muscle memory. I don’t care for this particular pattern because the center line is not as stretchy as the rest. So now I’m on the hunt for a pattern that stretches uniformly across the fabric (for comfort’s sake). I’ll keep you posted.
