Dappled

We’ve been all rained-on of late. Gratuitous Happy Hydrangea photo:

I have one more batch of things-I-found-on-Etsy-and-had-to-have to show you, but I interrupt that rediculous blather with some spinning.

I am smitten — SMITTEN, I tell you — with this latest yarn of mine.

I had two braids of merino and silk blend from Cloverleaf Farms, purchased at this most recent MDSW. (You may recall I posted about them in one of the follow-up posts to that event.) One was in a soft yellow, the other in a soft green. When I bought them, there were only the two braids of each color left in the booth, and I thought vaguely at the time that I thought they might be pretty together.

Last weekend, in some of the fastest spinning I’ve ever done, I completed the green and spun three quarters of the yellow bobbin. Both braids kept me totally mesmerized with the very subtle color changes that streaked through the base colors here and there. (It didn’t hurt that the fiber slid right through my fingers in a cloud of pure happiness.)

I am always full of squee when I finish a skein of yarn, but this time I’ve been carrying it around and petting it so much that I haven’t even given it the bath I would normally have done BEFORE taking photos.

When I was getting started with the plying and being giddy over how beautiful it looked as it was plying together, I thought, it looks like sunshine! Like Spring! No, wait, like Cucumber Salad! But finally, seeing it in the afternoon light, all finished and basking on my dining table in the glow — it’s Dappled.

So yes, I have lace progress (hey, look, a blob! A BIGGER blob than before!) and new stitch markers en masse to show you — but this? This totally trumped that plan.

Even more photos (because I love it so much I can’t edit what I took at all) are over on Flickr with some other side notes.

Thanks to Danielle and Laura for relieving the Comments Desert that has sustained for the last month or few — you may not know what it means to me to hear from you, so I’m telling you — it fills my wee heart right up and makes me grin like a fiend. So even if it’s just a hello or a mundane comment having nothing to do with the post at hand — speak up, eh?