Twisp of Fate

It’s been kind of gray and misty around here lately, the snow is melting, the roads are clear, ground is beginning to show – in other words, it is more like March in the Methow, than early February!  Thank you, El Nino… while east coast and midwest seem to be reeling under heavy snows, we are just soggy.

Today we have some sun, though, so I went up the road and caught this picture on the way back down.  As you can see, there is still some snow on the ground up here on Benson Creek.

My friend Diana has a spinning day on the second Monday of each month (including a delicious potluck lunch).  That was yesterday.  There were only four of us but we had a fine time.  Diana had finished spinning the fleece from a Jacob lamb and had 3 skeins of yarn to show for it – hard to believe these all came from the same sheep!  She did a great job of separating out the colors before carding for spinning.  She also had some socks she knit years ago from handspun Jacob wool, so I got a picture.  Aren’t they great?  One pair also had handspun angora from one of her bunnies.