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Snowcapped

Yesterday morning. (Another shot in B&W)  It's getting colder.

Founders Park

Mirror Shop

Plan B

And this is Plan B that's at the bookshop now. Ben had some fun photographing it, while I test drove Plan A as a collar at a girl's only Potluck dinner on Sunday.

Plan A

It's like this. Our local bookshop Page and Blackmore is hosting a Really Wild Tea Cosy competition. So I carded, spun and began to knit a tea cosy. It was my first time carding, first time completing spinning to create passable skeins, and my first ever knitting project.

Well, the tea cosy got bigger and bigger, and it was knitting about twice as wide as it was supposed to be, so I had to come up with Plan B, which I'm delivering to the bookshop right about now.

This thing, though, is made of delicious merino, so I'm either going to wear it as a collar/cowl, or close the top end and make it into a wee hat.

Perhaps this is happening to you, too?

Google Alert has been alerting us of our DP being picked up by this website in Malaysia. Ben has written to Eko Prasetyo at raiderhost.com requesting disassociation, but the email did not reach the intended address, we are told. As the site contains adult content photos, we are would rather not be associated with the said website, but what can we do... We're out there in this webby wide world.

Dang.

High Tea

Find detail at Founders Heritage Park.

Veges and...

Two paper bags are mushrooms and plastic bag in middle is beans.  It's getting cooler and I would like a nice hot soup.  I have a beacon ends in fridge. 

Leaning towards Plan B

The continuing saga to be revealed mid next week.

Carding

There are so many words for the fluff stage of fiber: sliver, roving, pencil roving, rolag, and I can't remember what other ones I've forgotten. They relate to a stage or a style of spinning of one's preference. It's all fluff to me, but lovely fluff. I think I finally know that "fleece" does not belong to this group of words, but you can correct me on that, too.

Red Tunnel

I'm liking this old manual lens (OM Zuiko Auto-S 50mm F1.2).
Actually, this make me to take my Nikon FM2n ( film camera) from cabinet.  I may put a roll of file through...

I'll moved on to another subject tomorrow. 

Autumnal Inside and Out

My attempt at mixing colors on the carder and spinning, and very bravely, even knitting. It's hard for "imports" in a country where, I swear, even smart cats can spin and knit.