Spin for a project

At the last spinning guild meeting, I chatted up one of my fiber friends who moved here from Texas but is still involved with her weaving guild in Austin (all their meetings are on Zoom - Texas is a big state and traffic in Austin is bad). That group is involved in a project that led my friend to weave a l-o-n-g piece where some of the weft is rolags she made on her blending board. An interesting concept.

Then we started talking about spinning for a project. While I have spun for one project in the past, usually I just spin whatever I have on hand and however it turns out. Now that I have started on that 900g of Romney, I'm thinking that could be for a sweater, one where the yarn is dyed using a walnut hull dye bath and its exhausts, to create an ombre effect. So that is the plan, sort of.

Knitting: I started a new pair of socks; the yarn is shades of pinks, which is making me ridiculously happy.

Weaving: I spent the good part of a day working on the leno curtains, including an insane amount of fringe twisting; I'm still not done.

The yarn bowl in the photo above is the best yarn bowl I have encountered. A cake of yarn spins inside it perfectly, thereby not adding or subtracting twist as one knits. I bought it at a pottery fair, so can't tell you where to get your own. Too bad - it really is the bee's knees.