So as you can see one of the things I got is a ball winder... which is great for all those hanks of lace yarn you see on the top... Winding 440 yards of super thin flimsy lace yarn by hand is definitely not fun so I am hopping the ball winder will make the process less painful. Ok, so the top row, except for the one ball of gray, is all lace yarn ranging from 100% baby alpaca "Alpaca Cloud" in Tide Pool Heather and Raspberry Heather to Shimmer in Eucalyptus which is 70% Baby Alpaca and 30% Silk to 2 Hanks of Oregon Coast Heather and Forest Heather Shadow Lace Yarn (100% Merino Wool). My birthday also brought me 4 more hanks of Bordeaux Gloss Fingering Yarn (70% Merino Wool and 30% Silk)of which I already had 2 hanks. One half of a Bordeaux hank has already transformed into a beautiful fingerless glove. I also designed my own Butterfly Fingerless glove with the rest of the Kenai from my Haruni. Pictures soon to follow. The rest of the lace weight yarns are probably going to transform into lace shawls of various different styles to test-knit some patterns for a wedding shawl. The first hank I knit into something will probably be one of the baby alpaca blends... I keep taking them out to touch them. They are sooooooooooo wonderfully soft!
The bottom row of this picture is for a big special late birthday/possibly Christmas birthday present that had been on hold due to a lack of feltable yarn and time to go to the Local Yarn store to pick some up. So now there are plenty of browns and great ball of Onyx Heather (super dark gray) plus a nice light green called Green Tea Heather and tiny 50 grams ball of Shine Worsted Yarn called Robot. I can already envision Yoda in the Green Tea Heather and Maple Syrup Brown...
I also got 5 balls of City Tweed in Tahitian Pearl.... that are going to be a cardigan....
So I will be busy. Stay tuned
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