No wood work...

for a while at least, it's just too hot to work in the Garage, where my Lathe is.  I do have a cane to do for one of Kimber's friends, but until the weather gets cooler that will probably be about the only thing I do.  I do have some spinning going however.  I bought some beautiful roving at Faire a few weeks ago, all white and pale pink and blue, with some lavender and dark blue as well. 

I wanted to colors to be a little more pronounced in the final yarn, so I split each section length-wise as I spun, pulling out the dark blue, the white and pale pink , and the pale blue and lavender in different sections. Then I spun each section.












 So far the yarn on the bobbin looks like...

I think I'm going to Navajo ply this, and since it's spun very fine, I should end up with a lace weight 3 ply variegated yarn.  I'll post pics when I'm done. 

Back again.

Yup.  I'm going to try the blogging thing again, and I have changed the name of the blog.  Back in Dec. I bought a wood lathe, and got it set up in Feb, as the weather was nice enough to allow cleaning and rearranging the Garage to accommodate the new piece of equipment.  So, since the lathe spins things too, a new name.  Now I just need to start taking pictures of things I'm working on to post here.  My shiny new (well, as of a month ago) smart phone my come in handy for that.
In other (somewhat belated) news, Darling Daughter is dating. We ( and she) have known the young man for some time, but she finally figured out how she felt.  Yes, he will get drafted into Greenwood, he knows this already.  He went along with us to Walla Walla just before Faire to hang posters.  At some point in time this picture was taken. 

Aren't they cute?

Also still spinning yarn.  Have some Milk protein fiber being plied right now.  As soon as it comes off the bobbin I have 8 oz. of lovely roving I got from a vendor at Faire that I want to start spinning.  Some pictures of that will be posted too. 

TTFN.