I put this little green marker on my needle and it settled into the red yarn and I’m sure I could smell cloves and cinnamon. It’s hard to believe we are heading into our last week of November. I’ve got our Christmas boxes out but I don’t like to start any decorating until we are officially in December. The advent calendar will go up on Saturday (I’ll have to think of what to put in all the little pockets) and everything else will follow some time later.

For those interested these stitches represent my in progress red possum mittens. I’m about half way through the first mitten ... for the second time. I did the first one at gauge and it was way too big for my hand. This is a little smaller than gauge and seems to be working out perfectly. I don’t know if I have abnormally small hands or if the pattern designer just really liked roomy mittens. I like my mittens to be a little snug so I can put my hands in my pockets easily.

I haven’t frogged the first attempt yet and I should probably get to that. The yarn is going to need blocking and will take a while to dry. I don’t want to have to wait too long to get these finished. The temperature dropped on Friday and it’s much too cold to be wearing mittens with holes in them.

Can anyone tell me what these plants are?

I’m making up a photo book from one of the albums I took down from my Photos page a little while ago. It’s almost ready but I’d like to have the names of these two plants to go with their pictures.

The pictures were taken near Great Slave Lake in September of last year.

Let’s call them Plant A ...


and Plant B.


Thanks for your help.

 

I’m halfway through spinning up my alpaca fibre. I’ve got one ounce spun and plied and set and skeined. It looks so lovely and feels even better. It seemed a bit rough when I was doing the plying; I was worried that I’d put too much twist into it and made it kind of wiry but a little bath and a bit of a stretch plumped the fibres back up again. I could just sit here and squeeze it ... but then I couldn’t type. I can’t wait to get started on the second ounce and have two of these lovely little skeins sitting in my basket.