Posts aplenty, just not always here...aka Linkspam

[untonuggan]

A linkspam was requested to remind certain persons that I'd hosted over at poetry this week. I did! Poems are posted. They are/were...

Dharma by Billy Collins
Harlem: A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
Fall Moon Festival by Thich Nhat Hanh
Dereliction by Chinua Achebe
Clearing by Martha Postlethwaite

Also, I just posted some nature photos over on common_nature , including a Red Fox, Red-shouldered Hawk, and a cardinal. Hmm, red seems to be a common theme, no?

On knitting I posted about some preemie hats I've been knitting. If you have ideas for more silly hats, please share! Currently I am knitting larger versions for young people with cancer. Because who doesn't want a Shrek hat?

Finally, on Flickr/Twitter I posted a photo of what I am spinning right now and have been too shattered to post it here. Honestly, I have been too dizzy to spin much the past couple of days. It's a mix of Targhee (super soft sheep fiber omg I am in love, it is way easier to spin than Blue-faced leicester and just as soft) and an Art Batt (which is basically a mix of all different kinds of fibers/colors that looks really cool). So plied together, it makes this:


A cream yarn twisted with a multi-colored dark yarn of blue, green, and dark red on a black background in about a 39(?) yard ball...still have more to spin.

Also, here is my latest dyeing experiment:

It's Corriedale (sheep) wool roving, dyed in the wool on the stovetop, in teal and purple using Wilton's food dye. Pictured here just rinsed off, still in the aluminum pot it was heated in.

Comments

[zcat_abroad]

That Corriedale is going to be beautiful when spun up! Well done! I'm not sure I'm ready to try dying, but it sounds like you have fun with it.