Sunday, April 20, 2008

Spring, teaching, knitting, spinning, dyeing

Has it been a month already?

It's been a busy spring here at BIH Yarn- the dyeworks has started up again, new yarns are being produced, there are new spinners running loose in New York City, and the pope is here. Snowdrops have yielded to daffodils have yielded to forsythia is fast being overtaken by honest to god LEAVES! The birds are back with their morning chatter, the windows are staying open all day and I'm walking around town without any socks on. I brushed over 10 brushfulls of winter undercoat out of my cat Papi. Yep, spring is here. No, I'm not going to spin the cat hair.

Two new colorways from the dyepot. These skeins are about 400 yards of merino/nylon sock yarn, ready to be made into whatever lovely project you can imagine. These are for sale at my Etsy store.

The violet colorway:

violet colorway

The green colorway:

green colorway

Last week I went to the dog park with a friend and his Pomeranian dog Samson. If these shots of dogs running zooming around the Nethermead in Prospect Park during off leash hours don't make you smile, then I really can't help you.

Samson action shot:
Samson in Nethermead

Camera stalking the first robin of spring in a Magnolia tree:
robin


More Nethermead dogs:

More Nethermead dogs

2 comments:

Alyssa said...

I'm one of those new spinners. You're going to have to teach me how to ply at some point. Till then I'm going to keep practicing!

Alexandra said...

Hi Alyssa! So glad to welcome another spinner to the flock!

Soon you won't be practicing any more, you'll be working on projects!

A