I’m in a knitting group that meets every tuesday evening at La Casita yarn shop. It’s a fun bunch of women and they have a 2 for 1 drink special that night. What does this have to do with spinning? We have decided to do a kind of knitted secret santa exchange. We each put our names (with sizes and colors we like and don’t like) into a hat. And now we are knitting a project for the person we pulled from the hat. We are trying to keep our projects secret, so for obvious reasons we aren’t bringing them to knitting night.

La Casita is very close to my apartment, so I’ve taken to bringing my spinning wheel with me on tuesday nights. The good thing is that I’m chugging away on this gorgeous fiber. It’s an 80% merino, 20% silk from Fiber Optic Yarns. The photos do not do the colors justice. The light color is an amazing turquoise color and the dark part is a dark purply, gray. This colorway is called smoke on the water.

I have two of these rolls. I am spinning each one separately into a very fine gauge and then I’ll ply the two together. The color changes are very subtle, so I think the plies will line up nicely. And when I’m done, I hope to make a gorgeous shawl like one of these.

Isn’t this color scheme gorgeous? I am trying not to run out and get this one as well. Especially since I’m only halfway done spinning what I have.

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