Jananas

We spent the weekend at the cottage. Its my last weekend before starting work tomorrow (eep!) and Jason just finished up his mid term school break, so we headed up north to rest and relax and celebrate. Jason is a very understanding mister – we stopped off at the Black Lamb in Port Hope to purchase my first spinning wheel. I got a Majacraft Little Gem, and that she is!

We hung out in the basement (a fluke of the grade of the lot) and watched movies and tv shows – Arrested Development, The Thin Blue Line, Keeping up Appearances, The Empire Strikes Back, The Highlander, and more. Jason painted miniatures and I spun to my little heart’s content. I also had fun playing with my niddy noddy, which is a strange little contraption that lets you measure how much yarn you’ve spun so that I can know tell you meterage and not just weight of fleece used.

I also spun three skeins of yarn. The first is some lime green/gray from pencil rovings I found in the basement at Romni. The second is from a bunch of random batts I made at Lettuce Knit using a package of random leftovers. I didn’t know what else to do with ‘em, so I spun them into on ball of very random yarn. The last is spun from 4oz of dyed rovings I picked up at the Black Lamb – its my Easter yarn.

I also had some fun playing with dye. I dyed almost a half pound of merino/nylon rovings, plus some bulky weight yarn. I love bright colours, which should be pretty apparent from the following picture. The front three are a combination of teal, violet, and aqua blue (with a little rose pink thrown into one piece of roving, just for good measure). The back four are a little bit of everything. If the last yarn above is Easter themed, then these rovings are the little kids version of Easter eggs – bright greens, violets, yellow, pink, blue, and white to balance it out. I had a tonne of fun playing around with the dye and it was a good learning experience. I can’t wait to play more!

Oh, and I read two books. I’m up to 28 books for the year, which is more than halfway through my total goal of 52 for the year.

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