Aye, land Ho Ye’ll ne’er get me buried booty!
December 11th, 2006Ahoy, Magellan made landfall yet again and I have Julie t' thank for his safe passage, argh! It was full o' all sorts o' delicious goodies!
Sorry for the blurry shot. Not sure what happened, but its not like I can go back and re-shoot after I've unloaded the booty!
Oh.My.Fibery.Goodness... There is amazing dark chocolate from Endangered Species and Java Truffles from Lake Champlain (which, I've never mentioned that I am in love with!). Homemade cranberry pistachio biscotti and divinity that Julie blogged about last week (how lucky am I?!?) A sheepie notepad, and the fiber, OH, the fiber... Four ounces of Wensleydale in the colorway "Daylily" from McKnits Two ounces of Bombyx Top in the colorway "Mesa" from Chasing Rainbows at Crown Mountain Farms and 7 ounces of an un-labeled wool batt in green/blue/brown (I'm going to guess Grafton Fibers, Julie correct me if I'm wrong). The Fiber is lovely, chocolate and sweets are always appreciated, however, Julie's note actually made me cry...
Because Kris is coming home on Thursday, just in time for Christmas!
Thank you again Julie.. you are AMAZING, and as I told you in my email.. you really surprised me because I had absolutely NO idea. Truly, you have no idea how much my mouth watered last week when I read your holiday baking post.
And Amanda.. Wow, despite everything that has gone wrong in this round of Yarn Aboard with the buccaneered boxes.. You have done an amazing job, going completely above and beyond what any swap organizer should have to deal with. A hearty Thank You comes your away as well!
I hope to take Ferdinand out in the wild here in Syracuse tonight and get a picture of him. Today though, its grim and rainy, and I don't want to damage his box, which is already showing some wear from his journey. If I do get a picture, I'll be sure to edit this post by adding it! Then I'll be packing him with some more booty and sending him on his way to the his next port of call... Hmm, I wonder where hes going?
Around a year ago on this day..
- What a mess! - 2007
- We're Back from PA. - 2005
December 11th, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Give Kris a big ole welcome home on Thursday from me! I’m glad to see Ferdinand made it safely and didn’t get waylaid by any nasty pirates. Way back when I used to live in a town that claimed to have some treasure buried somewhere by the infamous Jean Lafitte so you know I was a tad worried.
December 12th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Awesome package! And you were such a cheerleader for me during the buccanneering — you deserve it all!
December 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
It all looks so yummy — both the yarn and the fiber!
January 8th, 2007 at 10:41 am
[...] What a wonderful day of spinning! Not only did I finally finish up the alpaca single I’ve been working on, I learned to navajo ply! Christina gave me a quick lesson, and although I can’t really do it her way very well, I at least figured out the mechanism and the online videos and tutorials make much more sense. In fact when I got home I finished up the fruit salad targhee that I started at the guild meeting, then used up the little bit of natural brown corriedale I had leftover from Mom’s Christmas skein. Look closely at the fruit salad, you can see some oopsies. The corriedale though… pure perfection! So after I finished up navajo plying every spare single I had on a bobbin (ok, not the alpaca, I think I’m going to ply that with the bombyx Julie sent me) I decided to start spinning the beautiful green/blue/brown bat that Julie also sent in that package. This would be my first time spinning from a bat, so I was interested at guild to see how others prepared the wool. Beth, pulls off strips and spins them, but another member of the guild, Kathy, advised spinning back and forth like an accordion or zigzag, so as to eliminate joining more wool. Wow, how easy! And this bat is spinning up in such an unexpected way! The various shades of brown and green in the bat spin into muted golds and bronzes. Combine that with the green and blue and its just remarkable beauty! I’ll snap a shot of the singles once I get more spun, but I though the bat hanging from my wheel looked pretty cool. [...]