Happy Lunar New Year

It's the year of the rabbit, unless you're Vietnamese, then it's the year of the cat. For the Chinese, that figure in the moon is a rabbit. This year earth tiger, my birth sign, has given way to water rabbit, all about peace and prosperity. Sounds good.

Either way, cat or rabbit, good health, long life and good partying! Along with the many East Asian countries who celebrate.

Back home, I finished the pink mix gloves 

and did a bit more spinning. I decided that to satisfy my need to spin and to knit, I'd include the silk mix thread I've spun into the next gloves with some other yarn I found in the box under the roving. Blurry picture of same, dark rainy day.

It's a single, that's a single thread, not plied, so it works. I have no idea how much I need to spin, so I'll do it the way I did the vest of many colors. Just stop when I run out and spin a new supply! 

Serious spinners will be shocked that I've skipped the washing and weighting and drying and all the other approved steps before using the yarn. I did all that when I learned to spin, and when I was dyeing my yarn. 

But when the roving's already dyed, I don't see a downside up to now to skipping. I just knit sometimes right off the spindle. Gives a new meaning to just-in-time manufacturing.

About the terminology in this blog when I talk textiles. This is probably the downside to combining the two blogs, the art blog with this one. There the audience could be assumed to be was mostly familiar with the language if various arts, all of which are just everyday speech to me. In the combined blog perhaps not so much 

However I can't guess which terms are unfamiliar to readers. So I rely on you to alert me if you want an explainer, and I'll do my best. 

Just specify which words are obscure. I do try to guess, and often insert an explanatory phrase, but I'm open to hearing specific questions. 

Speaking of specific, the puzzle with all the ells is:

ILLEGALLY!  So you can now unfurrow your brow, very annoying when you've been assuming any puzzle answer is probably a noun. I did at first.

Happy evening everyone!  Celebrate if it's the start of your New Year and good health to all of us!

Baked plain and fancy, knitting

The day started with a ring and a knock, and Gary handing in this plate.

Iced danish, warm. Great morning greeting.

So one was a second breakfast. The other was an afternoon accompaniment to tea.

And I needed a batch of something.

The makings of cranberry walnut muffins

I never seem to stretch this recipe to a dozen. Anyway some for Tuesday when Handsome Son takes us to get the DNR form signed and delivered, then home for lunch and a cup of tea with muffins.

Meanwhile I started a pair of gloves with a new color selection.

Nice evening, everyone,  enjoy whatever you're up for. My cleaners come tomorrow so I tidy this evening.