January Thaw And Lambs And Spinach

We've had a thaw here in Massachusetts over the past few days. It's good to see patches of  grass even if they're so wet, once the snow melts on them that they look like boiled spinach.

Which incidentally is one of my favorite veggies. My son loves it too. And that's pretty impressive for a kid.

Most kids would run screaming from a plate of spinach, but Dante, he actually begs me to buy it. That's my boy.

Anyways, back to the thaw. I know the early Spring is time for lambing. I don't own sheep or lambs, though I get asked that frequently. I would love to have them, but the work of tending the flock, shearing them and processing the wool really overwhelms me. So I think it's best I stick to processed wool.

I did however secure a pound of beautiful white alpaca fleece, *Score* that I lovingly washed and then dyed a brilliant blue. Then I spun it on my wheel. Why would you dye perfectly good alpaca you say?

Well anyone that knows me, knows I think fiber always needs color. (at least I justify my need to color wool that way). Here is my white alpaca 

that I promptly dyed sapphire blue and spun into singles.

like I said, I can never leave well enough alone, though it sure is pretty. Can you imagine what would happen if I had a herd of white sheep? Yeah you guessed it, one big wooly rainbow. But that's not a bad thing either.