two days in a row

Holy Smoke, two days in a row...i took some pictures of my recent spinnings... does anyone really mess up a project...Kathy Mc and I had a challenge two years ago when i went to Dream Spin, I didn't make it last year as "His Highness" was laid up with his broken leg, and the Coq and the Fraser Canyon were closed down..so she showed up with her project, and i didn't, so i took it this year... silk scarf, "hanging basket pattern"..so anyway we decided on another project... she had spun up some lovely multi colour silk, so i decided to do the same, I wanted to keep the colours together, so i decided to Navajo ply it... what a mess...i had stripped the silk too fine, and the colours were too close together, and as i don't normally Navajo ply, it wasn't pretty... way too over spun... i could tow a pickup with the stuff

I love the colours, but as you can see way too over spun...i had divided the 100 grams into two , and this is the second try
very much better, i am going to wet the first skein and take it out to Larry's shop, he says he has a weight that i can hang on it... he says it weights 50 lbs...
these are the two skeins side by side..the one on the left it the tow rope...the next picture is of a wonderful hand woven T towel, from Sheila S of our guild, she is very new to weaving and does a wonderful job... we traded a scroll sawed train(made by Larry) for the tea towel... i am delighted with it... don't ya love the colours... orange and black...she is a born weaver...
this next picture is of some silk i spun, way heavier than i usually do... the guild are working on some projects for our turn in the Arts gallery in September..we did the fingerless gloves, and the next project is a cowl ... so this will be my cowl project yarn... have to decide where to dye it or leave it natural... going to make it for my girlfriend who rides a Harley... will keep her neck warm
this next one is a skein of alpaca... one of my fibre boys.. Sparky who we lost a couple of years ago... a nice boy... this project is for a shawl for a friend who lives in the BUSH, near Wells... she lives without water, or hydro...so this will be a very simple, non frilly shawl... very practical..huge and warm...
Andrea took pictures of our fingerless gloves... so she will send them to me when her hubby is finished fixing them up, and Toni is going to send me pictures of Marie and her 60th birthday shawl, which turned out really good.... take care and see ya soon............