Fiber Fool

I’m afraid you’ll have to forgive the darkness of the photo above. It has been grey and dark and damp - prefect sick weather. The flash was required to not get a blurry photos. Thanks to my sister there are no “hot spots” (more on that later). Some progress was made yesterday. I wound my handspun into a yarn cake! And, I knit…

I’m afraid this is all I can show you at the moment. While the gauge is nowhere near what I was hoping for the overall look of the knit fabric is exactly what I was hoping for when I prepped the fiber - slight undulations of value creating subtle striping! Yeah!

Thanks for all your well wishes. I think those (and some meds after a trip to the doctor yesterday) are working wonders and I’m feeling a bit improved. If nothing else, my head is much better knowing that I had not yet developed bronchitis as I had feared. My progress was aided in part by ABC. Yes, I’m a tad of a TV junkie. I like noise in the background when I doing stuff. If you didn’t know it - ABC has their television shows available for free viewing on their web site. In most cases the last four weeks of episodes shown (even the reruns) are available and the quality is quite remarkable. There are three or four 30 second commercial breaks (which I often use to check on e-mail). I caught up on last weeks shows yesterday from the comfort of bed rather than having to head to the basement to watch them.

Back to how my sister has improved my photography… By fantastic birthday shopping of course! Man it is great to have family that is more clued into one of your hobbies than you are for a change! On Friday a bit of a banged up package arrived from Adorama containing a wide variety of camera accessories. My favorite so far is the flash diffuser for the built-in flash. It slips into the hot shoe and forms a tent over the pop-up flash and then hooks over the name plate of the camera. It works miracles! It is still flash photography from a built-in flash, but it is so much softer with no hot spots. In fact, yesterday’s photo DH took with that in place as well. She also sent some anti-fog cloths from Nikon, an LCD screen shade, a set of three lens cap wranglers, a reference card for the D-80, and a table top Manfrotto tri-pod. Amber did all the hard work and mom pitched in for part of it. It was a fantastic package and kind of made up for the fact that the end of birthday week was spent in bed with a fever and cough.

I’ll leave you with a soft focus of the yarn cake in natural light just because despite the slight blurriness I think it is beautiful…