We had a wonderful time, and I really miss them. After visiting us, Marjon and Ivon headed down to the Finger Lakes in NY. While they were here we ended up going to Centre Island and the CN Tower, which I hadn't been to in ages. I'll post a few shots of the weekend as soon as I feel like going through all of our pictures.

For now, I've got some shots of the stash I scored in Oakville at The Wool Bin. They're really friendly and they carry Koigu! We happened to be in the area a few weeks ago for my cousin's wedding with a couple of hours to kill between the ceremony and reception.

I got two skeins each of four colours. I didn't like any of the colours for a shawl, so they're going to be for socks. I started a pair of Monkeys with the yellow.

I also got a couple of skeins of Sea Silk - one in gold and the other in shades of sea blues. I thought I'd combine them to make a shawl, since I was in Sea Silk Shawl Withdrawl. I managed to finish my Leaf Lace Shawl in time to wear it to the wedding (finally, a finished object to show off!).

The shawl used up almost exactly two full skeins of Sea Silk, knit on a 3.5mm needle. I had just under half a skein left after the 19th repeat, so I decided to knit the edging at that point and as it turned out, I had exactly enough yarn leftover to add seven 12" strands of yarn, looped in half and knotted, as fringe along the entire shawl. Perfect.

Finally, here's my (almost) latest handdyed handspun. It's all superwash merino. Both yarns are similar in grist, but I didn't measure yet so I don't have any details. The green one is from the fibre I dyed here, and I rather think it looks more like green grapes than it does olives. The green and orange fibre was dyed the same night.

The latest spun yarn is sitting in its finishing bath right now, and I'm about to go slap it about and hang it to dry. It's 4oz of the polwarth that I dyed with Rochelle back in April.

Better late than never but since I hadn't officially joined the Flash your Stash thingy I guess it doesn't matter. I wasn't planning on doing it, but when I saw Chelle's stash displayed on her staircase, I had the urge to go through it all and write down what I had.

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