Extravayarnza

Okay, since this is post v.2 (thanks to a power outage) you're getting the short version of the store this time.
I've had basically no voice for 2 days now. Luckily I'm on the mend, with any luck I'll be able to teach my class tomorrow morning. (and do inventory all weekend) Thank goodness that I was finally in a position to take a sick day. Thursday I spend the whole day silently cursing the phone every time it rang and helping customers the best I could with head nods and pointing. The thing I feel really bad about is that Thursday night Trent kept sneaking on the table to get my chicken noodle soup & even going so far as to drink from my water glass. Now he's been sneezing all day. Ever see a cat sneeze? It's pretty funny, but I feel really bad that he's sick too.

So, what does a knitter do when she's sick & her defenses are down? Spin of course.

I spun up an entire 400 yd of sock yarn on Thursday!

This yarn is headed off to my HandSpun Sock Yarn Swap partner on Monday. It's from my new Superwash Merino & Tencel roving. I'm (Gesundheit! Trent) so in love with this yarn, I'm glad I dyed up 8oz so I can spin up a hank for myself. Actually I dyed up 4oz each of 2 different versions of the same colorway, same proportions but the colors were in a different order. Then I spun up random chunks, one bobbin from each version. That way if the colors ever lined up in plying they changed differently so that the final yarn is really random. I really like the final yarn (did I say that already?, old formula Nyquil rocks)

This morning afternoon I turned my attention to finishing up my Crown Mountain (Gesundheit!) Farms Sock Hop roving.

One bobbin down, the other's about 1/3 full.
BTW. I need to say Thank You! to my Secret Pal. She outdid herself again with a fun package of Sock Yarn & one of my favorite albums (one I'm very happy to now have on CD).