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Oct. 24th, 2008 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI spent a lot of the day today over at the Chambersburg courthouse, looking at deeds.
When I got home from work, I finished up the grey alpaca (it's a good grey) and made the executive decision to spin up the white alpaca so that I could ply it with the grey alpaca to make a tweedy yarn for the insides of the mittens because I don't want to have to divide the bobbin in half in order to ply up the grey as just grey plus also I don't know that there's enough just grey to do the innards of the mittens. Plying it with the white will double the amount of yarn available to me. Also, I want to try spinning the white uncarded, from the tips, to see if more crud drops out that way. There is some crud in the alpaca fur (this is in spite of the alpaca lady's statement that alpacas are "cleaner than sheep" -- I think she was referring to lanolin. The lack o' lanolin means alpacas are also more staticky than sheep. Honestly, with a couple of balloons and a few minutes of effort, you could stick alpacas to each other, the backs of people's shirts, and like that. Amuse your friends!) and it annoys me no end to have to stop spinning and pick out bits of crud. For nonspinners in the audience (Why are all ya'll an audience when you aren't listening? You're fucking reading. You should be a lexience or something. Srsly, this language it sux0rs.), bits of crud in the fur make for LUMPS in the yarn. Lumps in the yarn are just... no. I can't be having with that.
Right now, I'm going to have to start on the squash soup fixin. Once it's done, I'll bag it (go ziplocks!) and put it in the fridge to chill. It'll travel to Philly (three hours of driving) in the cooler, with ice, so that it does not get all yuck. On site, I will put it into the crock pot to keep it warm for the function. That'll work, I think.
When I got home from work, I finished up the grey alpaca (it's a good grey) and made the executive decision to spin up the white alpaca so that I could ply it with the grey alpaca to make a tweedy yarn for the insides of the mittens because I don't want to have to divide the bobbin in half in order to ply up the grey as just grey plus also I don't know that there's enough just grey to do the innards of the mittens. Plying it with the white will double the amount of yarn available to me. Also, I want to try spinning the white uncarded, from the tips, to see if more crud drops out that way. There is some crud in the alpaca fur (this is in spite of the alpaca lady's statement that alpacas are "cleaner than sheep" -- I think she was referring to lanolin. The lack o' lanolin means alpacas are also more staticky than sheep. Honestly, with a couple of balloons and a few minutes of effort, you could stick alpacas to each other, the backs of people's shirts, and like that. Amuse your friends!) and it annoys me no end to have to stop spinning and pick out bits of crud. For nonspinners in the audience (Why are all ya'll an audience when you aren't listening? You're fucking reading. You should be a lexience or something. Srsly, this language it sux0rs.), bits of crud in the fur make for LUMPS in the yarn. Lumps in the yarn are just... no. I can't be having with that.
Right now, I'm going to have to start on the squash soup fixin. Once it's done, I'll bag it (go ziplocks!) and put it in the fridge to chill. It'll travel to Philly (three hours of driving) in the cooler, with ice, so that it does not get all yuck. On site, I will put it into the crock pot to keep it warm for the function. That'll work, I think.
