Team Jacob

I found some fiber in the unlikely town of Forks, WA - yup, Twilight Forks - a few years back. This is 6.5 oz of Jacob roving from Fuhrman Road Farm.

It's lovely and crimpy and a breeze to spin on a hand spindle.

In other travel souvenir news, my friend Nancy brought back some caramels from Belgium.

Caterpillar

The caterpillar roving is off the wheel.

Rare Bloom

The orchid roving is spun.

I decided to do this on the wheel since there's 8 oz, instead of the usual 4 oz handpainted braid.

Next up, to go with that flower is this worm:

This is 5.5 oz of punta wool in the colorway "caterpillar" from Little Monkey's Stitch & Spin.

Days of Yore

I went digging through the fiber stash for my next spinning project and was drawn to this:

It's 8oz of Serendipitous Ewe Corriedale roving in the colorway "orchid." I got it at Stitches East 2008. back in the day, when Stitches East was a quick train ride away in Baltimore, instead of a really long train ride away in Hartford, CT. Best of all, in those days, you could get 4oz of handpainted roving for $12. Yup, good times.

While I was rummaging through Flickr, I noticed that I bought this roving at the same time as the yarn for the macaw socks:

Together again.