Jananas

Today was one of those days that ended on a frustrating note. It was one of those situations where I’m just a little too new and inexperienced to be able to really get what needs to be done or defend what I did do or answer questions, but still have to do it. I know that it’ll get better as I learn more. In the short term its frustrating and demotivating.

But, but, but. I made a stop on my way home that mostly cheered me up. A woman had dropped by the Knit Cafe last week looking for someone to spin yarn for her. The lovely Iwona immediately thought of me and passed along the info. I did some research about pricing and was nervous about having the “it’ll cost you” conversation. [There's a reason handspun sells for $30-40USD per skein its because it can take hours to spin up and that human labour'll cost ya!] I figured that I should follow up anything and it was right on my way home, so there weren’t any excuses not to.

I knocked on the door and the lady gave me a giant bag of fleece. Giant! I feel okay about using the descriptor giant and an exclamation point because this bag is taller than the seat of my couch. And its easily a foot wide.

I’m not really sure what sort of fiber this is other than fact that it is very soft and silky to the touch. I’m a little afraid though because its staple length is super short (like 1/2″-1″?). I don’t know if its even really spinnable. I may just rent the drum carder from Lettuce Knit this weekend and try to card it up into some batts. I’ll give those a shot. If they don’t spin up, I’ll mix it with some wool and card it together.

Here’s to a weekend filled with fleece-y good times!

p.s. I feel a little like the bottom right hand corner of the photo looks like a dragon’s mouth.