Every year, our guild puts up an exhibit at the Redwood City Public Library. This year, our Exhibits Chair decided to show case our year long jacket project. If you are in the area, drop by the library on the corner of Main and Middlefield.
And after your visit, you can walk across the street for a margarita at Milagro’s. <grin>
The upside of an unusually warm winter is that I can continue to use my drying rack out of doors. I have both of my drying racks full of hand wash.
The red skeins you see on the right are from my earlier post on all the red silk blends I found in my stash. Well, actually, not all. I kept back a single braid of warm red to use as weft. (It’s probably the center braid in the photo.) There’s a hair over 1 pound of yarn there.
The 2 ply yarn ranged from 36 to 44 wpi, before washing. The ones with camel and cashmere were the 36 wpi. I will have to remeasure after they dry. I am sure they will have fluffed up even more. I didn’t shock the yarn; I just whacked them on the edge of the sink after squeezing the water out of them. I will full them a bit more after the fabric comes off the loom.
There is 1 skein of 50/50 cashmere/silk, and 1 skein of 25/25/50 baby camel, merino, and silk (50/50 camel silk  plied with 50/50 merino/silk). Those 2 skeins make up a bit more than half of the finished yarn. The other 2 skeins are all 50/50 merino/silk. I plan to alternate every other thread of the merino/silk with the exotic. Since the color is different between the camel and cashmere, I will likely have the cashmere straddle the camel on the outside.
The warp will be 50/50 merino/silk singles that you see on the right. The singles are about 75-80 wpi. Thus far, I’ve spun up about 2 oz. of the red and 1 oz. of black. I have 2 more oz. of red that I will spin if I need more.
Why didn’t I spin all of it? I want to put the warp on and try out what I have thus far. I’m holding the other 2 oz. back in case I have to do something slightly different. And if I’m really far off, I still have about 8 oz. of plain white 50/50 merino/silk roving from the jacket project that I can dye up and spin.
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I’m back! Fabulous Trip. Catching a cold half way through the trip? Not so fabulous. But wow, it’s gorgeous out there!
Remember the Monk’s Bag? Perfect. It became my day bag while I was on the boat. It held all the little stuff that you need through out the day: lip balm, hair clip/band, Kindle, dive notebook, camera and swimsuit wrap. It allowed me to  carry it around in a nice neat package instead of stuff hanging out all over.
It also saved me because I made a slight miscalculation in my packing and needed to check my carry on rolling bag. I was able to pull a few necessities out of the bag before checking it and put it into the Monk’s Bag.
And a slight clarification on the length of the strap…it’s too short to wear it across your chest, a la messenger bag, but perfect length when just slung over one shoulder.
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