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On the wheel, the wooly embryo photos and Misc. Darling.

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All the way from LimeGreenJelly in the UK, now plied, sopping wet and hanging on the stairs, 4 ounces of straight merino. Absurdly easy to spin, which is nice when one can't sleep. A whopping eight ounces of Fat Cat's alpaca/merino/silk. Plied and finished. Eight ounces (200 grams) looks like a lot of yarn, currently located in the bowl on the dining room table. Halfway through the bobbin exploded, jamming up the wheel's mechanism and causing a lot of very bad words. The latest purchase (this morning), a rare un-custom order: Fat Cat's eight ounces of merino, superwash. I couldn't resist the colors. Ginny is a flipping color genius. __ Franklin Habit has knit mittens for his niece Abigail . I love the way Franklin writes and this particular piece is very funny and the photos are priceless. -------- Some darling Welsh knitter on Ravelry has posted up a “project”: her incredibly hot husband; a shoulders and back view, wearing only a modern kilt, socks and big blac...