Friday Read

 

Library e-book

 

More Cheviot

 ITW February 2025 Club Colorway "Woe's Hollow" Grey Cheviot.

 

 

 

 

Last month I received "Midnight Poutine" Superwash Cheviot and currently I am spinning "Silent Supper", also Cheviot, from July 2024 (Into the Whirled Fiber Club).

 

 

Wary Birds

I keep trying to get a nice flock photo of the Band-tailed pigeons. They won't let me.

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday's Box

 

 

 

Monday Read

 

Library Audiobook

 

On Repeat

 

 

 

 

Refresh Again

 My poor neglected yogurt, again.

 

 

 Fortunately, November's batch still looks okay - not pink, gray, or fuzzy. phew

 

 

Making yogurt is going to take two days. A day to refresh the culture and a day to make yogurt using the refreshed culture.

Today is just to feed and coax the yogurt. At the end of today I will (hopefully) end up with floating bits of happy yogurt.

Whole milk steamed in the Instant Pot for 1 minute.

 

 

 Cool down to 116 - 118° before adding one tsp of the previous (November) yogurt.

 

 

Back in the Instant Pot for eight hours.

 

 

Eight hours later I have a wee bit of happy culture that I will use to coax tomorrow's batch of yogurt.

 

Friday Read

 

Library e-book

 

Win-Win

Today The Man and I got new Library cards from the Paso Robles City Library.

 

 

Paso Robles City Library and  SLO County Library System are two separate systems and do not share a Catalog. As a result we now have access to more e-books and audiobooks. Yay.

While in Paso we made sure to take advantage of the unusually warm (81°) weather.

 

 

I Aspire

2/25/2025 ~ ~ Spin to knit socks ~ ~

 

 

Tuesday Turnaround

Monday's task ~

 

 

Tuesday's return ~

 

 

Beautiful ~

 

 

Monday Task

I just finished making charity Scarf Balls to distribute to the Straw Bale Knitters when I see everyone at Spinners' group tomorrow.

Yay, completed kits before 9pm. Last Monday I was still winding late into the night, having spent most of the day plying yarn.

I am not sure why Scarf-in-a-Ball is on Monday's To-Do List. I think I need to find a different day (or an earlier time) to wind Balls.

 

 

 

Lovely Bowls

Instead of doing household chores yesterday I did something else, something better:

I felted eight Flower Bowls. The knitting had been completed  - ahem, a while ago - so I wove in the ends and proceeded to do the felting in the kitchen sink with the still new "felting tool" aka plunger.

 

 

 

 

It took about 80 minutes of plunging and agitating the hot soapy water before the fibers melded together. So beautiful.

 

 

 

 

Saturday Read

 

Library Audiobook

 

Waste Knot

 Thrums, the bits and bobs of waste warp from the T-Shirt Mats,

 

 

tied together,

 

may be woven one day.

 

 

Else's Studio

A beautiful spectacular space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday Read

 

Library Audiobook

 

Newly Yarn

 Three plied skeins and freed up "storage" bobbins.

 

 

More Bobbins

The 5 & 6-inch weaving bobbins I use for "storage" bobbins are full of spun singles.

I need to find more so that I can wind off the spindles.

 

 

 

I try not to use the 4-inch bobbins they don't hold enough and I need to save them for weaving.

 

 

Only one thing to do: Ply some yarn.