Though I’m fresh out of first-born.  S’pose he’d take a cat?

Seriously, I’m trying to spin up all my loose fiber, so I have yarn for weaving/knitting/dyeing.  I’ve got 1.5 pounds of linen strick, and you see here about 0.25 pounds spun, which has taken at least five 2-hour sessions.  For comparison, I was filling this bobbin with worsted Alpaca completely in about 2 hours in April.  I’m trying to learn how to spin more finely, and the exchange is you get more time out of your money’s worth of fiber.  Hmm.

I’ve also been building up my needle callouses.


These are Velvet Owl pouches, which are the regalia awarded to worthy people who exhibit excellence in the Arts and Sciences.  It’s called being a Companion of the order of the Velvet Owl (CVO).  Different from Laurels, which are more like tenured faculty.  Lavena got a CVO at Kingdom ArtSci, and I looked at the pouch and thought ‘I can do that’.  So I’m pulling a few together for shipping off to the queen on Monday, and will do enough to polish off this stash of blue velvet/satin after that.