Right. Stuff!

Lab goes. Which is why I haven’t been here the way I’d like.

The semi-secret project continues, once it’s done and the new owner receives it, I’ll post.

Dyed a bunch of new fiber. Some of it vanished within minutes. If you want more immediate updates about when fiber actually appears in the shop, you can watch the “Shop Updates” posts in the new Ravelry Gnomespun group. I will of course continue to post here, but sometimes stuff goes up before posts and sometimes after. So that thread will be updated immediately after shop updates.

But there’s also some still there.

Centaurea, a lighter (truer to the flower) version of the “Dark Centaurea”

Centaurea – 4oz – Carded Dorset Roving

Bzzzz! Bright, yellow (clearer yellow than this photo)… With summer comes…

Yellow Jacket – 4oz – Combed BFL Top

A soft muted green the color of dark moss in cool forests.

Moss – 2oz x 2 – 80/20 Merino/Angora Combed Top

Golds and burgundy browns blend like the bright summer flower in this soft silk fiber…

Blanket Flower – 1oz x 2 – Combed Tussah Silk Top

And in the already gone category…

A rich oxblood clematis in deep lustrous red…

Niobe – 4oz – Carded Ramboulliet Roving

Also known as Glory of the Snow, these flowers bloom early in shining white and silver-lavender.

Chionodoxa – 1oz x 2 – Combed Tussah Silk Top

Tomorrow, some more fiber, and some spindle goodness.

~The Gnome

…I’m doing science and I’m still alive…

(Points for those who catch the reference there)

Weekend was pretty good. Friend came and visited and I got to think about not-my-science for a while. Got to go see Fred Small, who does one concert a year. It was awesome. I forgot what it’s like to be in an old fashioned folk crowd, where people aren’t afraid to sing and such.

It was also amusing because as we were walking around Cambridge, I was spindle spinning. I can’t knit while I walk, but I can spin. Then I proceeded to spin more (and knit some) in the line to get into the concert. Which made me lots of friends who asked all sorts of questions about it. ::grins:: Of course I forgot to give out business cards. Doh.

He sang (of course, it’s his famous one) my favorite song (Everything Possible) and I had tears streaming down my face. That song would probably top my list of influential songs in my life.

Also got some science done on Sunday, and a lot more reorganization of my fiber stash. It’s large. Not really large for the scale of these things, but considering the size of my apartment… it’s large. Considering the fact that fairly soon I have a *very* large shipment of fiber coming from the mill… it’s enormous.

So I reorganized, with the help of some nice boxes from IKEA that Tom got me (they aren’t carrying the beech veneer to match my shelves anymore!).

See the nice pull out boxes?

Doesn’t look too bad, does it?

Except… mouse over that, and notice what the mouse-over text is… right… “Layer 1″

Yeah. That’s layer two. The big tubs are 28 gallons. And this is before the 40lbs of fiber I sent to the mill comes back. Eeeeep!

And here’s some dyeing that’s been drying. I’ve also done a little more which will be photographed tomorrow.

Today, tussah silk!

My personal favorite, deep in the center of the forest, where the wild fey dwell and the emerald cathedral blocks out all but the most filtered light…

Heart of the Forest – 1oz x 2 – Combed Tussah Silk Top

When the moon is full and the soft silver light plays across the water, anything can happen. Swans turn to maidens and frogs hop down from the moon…

Moonlight – 1oz x 2 – Combed Tussah Silk Top

Mmm summer (when it doesn’t include all this rain and non-sun) brings fruit salad. Mmm fruit salad, with all the juice running together in the bowl…

Fruit Salad – 1oz x 2 – Combed Tussah Silk Top

And that’s about it for right now. In a bit I’ll put up another post with spinning videos. Tomorrow will be an update on the walking spindle project, the rest of the new fiber, and… well other stuff, I’m sure.

Now, to go order new GFP and V5 antibody for experiments, edit figures, and meet with the boss about paper edits.

~The Gnome