Imagine cotton candy that spins up like a dream from an airy mound of sugar into a smooth, lustrous single with a shot of white silk twirling through it:

I’m thinking that it will end up being a DK weight two-ply. I’m very happy with the results of this - I’ve spun nearly six hundred yards of it, and while it’s not perfectly even, the product is much improved. I have some more of the same stuff in a wine-red color too, and I’m thinking that it will complement the pink very nicely. Any ideas on what to make with it?

I’ve also been spinning up some Blue-Faced Leicester - after tons of merino it’s wonderful to go back to something with a nice long staple again! It seems like a cakewalk to spin up a sport-weight single - I’m hoping to make a nice pair of socks with it. Although I’m not knitting any at the moment, I’ve become slightly sock-obsessed. The new issue of Vogue has these socks, which command my masochistic attention. They look like a huge beeyotch to do but I am in love all the same. (Maybe my feelings will change after this project gets in line after all the other projects and cools its heels awhile.)

It’s been a week full of yarny goodness. I went to the Stitches market this weekend, and as expected, it was quite the yarnoholic’s orgy. I intended to take pictures while I was there, but to be honest I was mostly flabbergasted and completely forgot. I came home with some wonderful goodies, including this lovely Merino/mohair top:

It spins up into a nice blue-green that strikes me as delicately heathered and manly at the same time. Perhaps it will become something for Mr. KB… gloves perhaps? (Presuming I can keep spinning it thin enough - this is definitely the most difficult thing I’ve spun so far, with the exception of a handful of cotton fluff that got the better of me a couple of weeks ago.)

After Stitches yesterday I headed on over to Loopy for the Stitches/Knittyhead party. It was a smashing success - I’d guess that there were 100 people there, but I couldn’t tell because the shop was so busy! It was great fun. Best of all I got to meet fellow Knittyheads - more on that when I get pics from my Oklahoma pal April, who had the presence of mind to take pictures when I had clearly lost whatever mind I’d had to begin with.
Lest you think that I’ve given up knitting entirely in favor of spinning, here’s some proof that I haven’t tossed the old needles just yet.

BunnyLove (aka Pinup Girl) continues. I am now past the boobage and I’ve forged ahead well into armhole territory. Sleeves take forever, so I still wouldn’t call this more than 2/3 done, but it’s still moving along. Sarah was right on with her prediction that it’d take about a month of spinning bliss before I wanted to knit again. I’m doing both (as predicted) and getting my knitting groove back on.

There’s a lot I could ramble on about, and I have some posting to do about the fantastic packages I’ve received in swaps and from SPs lately… but for now, I’ll just leave you with an unretouched photo of the most amazingly vibrant flowers we brought home the other day. Just imagine inhaling sweet rose scent from those watermelon roses.

…I’m loving summer.