Knitting Therapy

Or in this case, spinning.

While cleaning and stash diving today, I discovered a braid of beautiful brown/skyblue mystery fiber. The store I purchased this from is now closed, and it never had a tag on it. It's 4oz and I'm fairly sure there's some silk in it, from how thin it wants to spin up. I think it's time for my first foray into laceweight spinning...

For laughs, I also spun up a few handfuls of border collie. That's right, it's shedding season, and my year-old collie mixes are leaving piles of themselves in corners. I've heard that dog hair is the warmest yarn on the planet, or close to it. Out came the Bosworth Mini. It was exciting spinning, that was for certain - Maya and Sansa have soft downy hair mixed with bristly overcoats, and while their hair is rather long and fluffy for dogs, it's short for spinning. I couldn't have spun this on anything heavier than the mini, I think, and even then the poor spindle in the floor half a dozen times. All plied up, I have a dozen yards of fingering-weight black/brown/white yarn. I think hubby needs a dog bookmark.