Here they are. Two bobbins-full of 2-ply, fuscha yarn in a merino/silk blend, spun by myself. It’s not perfect, but it’s fluffy and it’s soft, and I’m am just tickled about it. And I feel really good about the fact that this is a gift, too. It’s a “good” gift–handmade and yet nice. The texture may be a little uneven, but it has such a nice feel to it. I think it’s just as well that I’m not really a “pink” person–I’d be sorely tempted to keep it myself! If I have the energy later, I’ll wind this off onto my niddy noddy later, so I can set the twist tomorrow and it will be dry by the weekend, just in case I can get together with Cindy to give her her gift.

As luck would have it, I got a box from Blue Goose Glen today, with three very nice colors of roving:

 This is great. Now I have plenty of fiber to spin–not to mention still half a batt of a lovely blue/green blend from Grafton fibers. I started that before the fuschia, but put it aside to have the gift done in time.

Here’s Chappy relaxing, draped over the side of my ottoman–for whatever reason, he loves to lean on furniture–back feet on the floor, front half on the furniture. He’s happy to sit in that position for, well, not quite hours, but quite a while! He’s even fallen asleep that way. I think he’s a little overloaded on photos for a while, though, since he didn’t exactly smile for the camera. It doesn’t help that he doesn’t like the red-eye pre-flashes–as soon as the automatic light meter kicks in, he blinks and looks away!

Dawn (aka the Birthday Girl) left a comment asking, “Typically, she can remember exactly which books we were reading at what time (and considering the number of books we read… this is no small task!) So my question about the photo, what books were we reading?” As sorry as I am to disappoint her . . . I really can’t say for sure. I don’t remember the exact moment my Mom shot the photo. Since our books look like matching hardcovers, though, I’d guess that we were either doing homework, or reading part of the same series–my guess would be Katherine Kurtz’s “Camber” trilogy.

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