This sudden spinning confidence comes from the fact that i just finished 4 ounces of Yak fluff (from Deep Color Studio). Sarah bought it, and contracted the spinning to me. it was fun. She just started knitting a hat for her friend that travels to Antarctica frequently. Should be a warm hat! Here is a close-up of the finished product:

in other spinning news, I spun up some of speckles (also known as the dirtiest fleece ever). It is so dirty.
Since I haven’t carded it with hand cards, just flicked the locks open, the dirty wool is spinning up into dirty yarn. it makes me sad to look at it. While spinning, I actually had the idea that i might just use the rest of the wool to stuff a pillow or something. like I was once told by a make-up counter girl after she did my make up “It looks good from far
away!”

Finally, I got my Summer issue of Interweave Knits last night. I am not really in to
spaghetti-strap tanktops or shrugs, so I was feeling a little disappointed. then i got to the end of the magazine and found the collection of baby patterns. generally I don’t like babies, but I really like knitting for babies, and some
really cute babies that I like put in a request for more handknit socks. So I immediately started on a pair called “hugs and kisses” that has a little x-o-x-o cable down the front of it. I am using the cherry tree hill supersock that I used for the last pair of baby socks. The variegation doesn’t look so great with the cabling, but hey, it’s what I had.