Last night I finished spinning and plying 'Clamor for Glamour'.
I chose to Navajo Ply because I wanted blocks of solid colour rather than a complete marl yarn. I have said before I am just delighted to be spinning yarn but I would like to improve and get an evenly plied yarn. I guess it will come with experience (or maybe not!) There are a few knots where the singles broke during plying but I am finding knots quite regularly in commercial yarn anyway so I will forgive myself a knot or two.
Don't ask me what weight it is or how much I have! I have one skein of 'thinnish for me' stuff!
Look at that glamour.
That is not the only glamorous thing to be going on around here today, one lucky lady has had a pampering, a very posh wash and blow dry!
I ran around the garden taking over ten photographs and this was the best one. The others are all blurs as chickens move pretty fast. Dotty Daisy was a very dirty 'Little Red Hen' apparently some Hens are just dirtier than others. Daisy is very cute but she is the dirtiest of the three! Not a nice claim to fame. So today I had my first experience of bathing a chicken. It is very cold here at the moment but she actually seemed to enjoy her warm bubble bath. She didn't struggle she really relaxed in the water and chatted away. Her sisters watched on and looked fascinated. I couldn't leave her cold and wet so I used the hair dryer to get her dry and fluffy again. I was worried it would distress her but she seemed to thoroughly enjoy the whole experience. She cooed and clucked, chatting to me while I dried her. She tried once to make a run for it as I took her into the shed to dry her, at one point I had a chicken on my head! I think she would appreciate weekly visits to the salon now she has had a taste for it . There is never a dull moment around here, it is not an everyday thing to bath a chicken is it? I think I am going to become a very strange, eccentric old lady one day, if I am lucky!
