My parents made the trip from Wake Forest today to visit me and Jag and see the house. We had a nice lunch, and mom brought over the in-progress afghan she’s crocheting with the handspun I gave her for Christmas. This is why I love giving my mom handspun! She made a gorgeous scarf/stole with some of my first handspun, and she’s making a beautiful project with this batch, too! I think this is the perfect pattern for setting off the yarn. I gave her the January yarn today and I started spinning the February shipment this afternoon. I can’t wait to see how it all turns out.

The weather was so nice that me and Jag went for a walk, and afterwards we checked the mailbox, which we’d forgotten to do on Saturday. What to my wondering eyes should appear but a package from HLF! It’s lovely carded Jacob wool that she’s been processing from a fleece. It’s so soft, and smells wonderful (aside from the nice wooly smell) from whatever she washed it in. Thanks so much HLF! (And thanks for the yummy chocolate, Bennett!) Your item is being readied and should be able to ship out by Tuesday.

Lest I forget, I also got a lovely batt from Michelle recently. It’s wool and (soysilk? Correct me here) for spinning into sock yarn. I’ll start on this after my mom’s February handspun is done.

I’ve been working some more on unpacking craft room stuff. After a couple failed attempts involving some of those Command Adhesive hooks (don’t ask) I have my braided rovings hanging on a line from a couple of hefty ceiling hooks. If these pull out of the wall, I’ll try drilling into the ceiling beams and installing 1-8 steel eye bolts.

I’m also doing some sock knitting, just an easily memorized pattern that doesn’t compete with the variegated yarn and can be knit while fighting frost giants and ogres.