I made a yarn ball

Yesterday evening I made a yarn ball. Now I can start knitting my Shipwreck shawl.

Kasper in bed on hubby's arm

Happily sleeping away while hubby's reading aloud for me

Where did all the dyes come from??

For many years I swore I woudn't start dyeing. My reason for that was I didn't have time. I don't know how it came that the plastic box I kept my few dyes in suddenly had filled up with more and more dyes... Today I dyed the BFL/silk yarn I spun for a Shipwreck shawl, and I also found some Finnwool that needed to take a dye bath:

This is what my Shipwreck yarn looks like now. A nice cerise/pink that I will overdye by painting the finished shawl. I wanted a not so even color, so I didn't take off the threads I tied the skein with before washing and the result is a yarn with lighter spots:

Summer isn't far away! A bumble bee resting:

Shawl yarn and rhubarb

This is meant to become a Shipwreck:

The skein is not washed, but as I can't wash it yet I show it anyway. It's BFL/silk (50/50) from Ullaffären, a wonderful fiber combination of excellent quality. Sadly Renee doesn't have any more of it. It may be that my yarn is too thin. It's 345 grams, 1340 meters, 3-ply. And it all fitted on to one WooleeWinder bobbin! OK, if it's too thin, I'll spin another yarn from something else. I love spinning, if you haven't noticed ;)

In the garden shy little red hats are showing amongst the withered remnants of the leaves from last year:

I won't clean up around them yet, there will still be cold nights and the small rhubarb babies need their blankets. Beautiful colors!