I have the fortune of having some wonderful friends who make sure that I’m never alone during the holidays. I will be joining one such extended family for dinner this afternoon. Tomorrow, I’ll be having yet another turkey meal — the club has a tradition of cruising out to Angel Island for Thanksgiving weekend and frying a turkey on the beach. I made 4 chocolate espresso pecan pies last night. 1 for today, 2 for tomorrow, and 1 to keep and share with Penny‘s family.
The fingerless glove used up about half of spun yarn. I could have made another pair of fingerless gloves, but I was bored. So, I decided to make a bow-knot scarf to make a matching set.
I’ve lost track of how many bow knot scarves I’ve made. It’s one of my favorite quick knits when I need a last minute present.
First the good…
Chameleon Colorworks Purple Rain/Eggplant 2-ply lace weight yarn previously posted. Here it is in all its glory, post wet finishing and a light block on the skein winder. Post wet finishing, the resulting skein measures out at 1156 yards (approx. 2300 ypp). I lost about 12 yards in the wet finishing. Not too bad.
Now, the not-so-good…
I was itching to spin some mohair boucle. I found a small bag of mohair locks that had been dyed in peacock blues, greens and purples. Lovely to look at. Until I started to prepare it for spinning. It was tacky. It was so tacky that I couldn’t fluff the locks. I zapped it in the microwave with a sprinkle of water to warm up the grease. Better, but I had to work fast, and reheat periodically. Spinning it was interesting. On the one hand, my hands were well lubricated from the grease, but the yarn was still gummy.
Okay, a hot bath of the yarn should take care of the gummy stuff, right? Nope. Boiling water and lots and lots of dish soap later, all I got was a faded skein of yarn. The color continued to come out in each bath, and the fiber remained tacky. (I don’t remember where I bought the mohair locks from, since there were no tags in the bag. I wish I did so that I won’t make that mistake again.)
Lower left, the remaining mohair singles. Upper right, mohair skein, post however many baths I did. You can see how much of the color had washed right out. Both piles went out with last night’s garbage.
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