What exactly did I spend all weekend doing at Black Sheep?

It’s lovely. I think I have about 600 yards of it. It should be self striping because I followed the method described in Janel’s article in the most recent Spin Off for self striping socks, and my friend that used the same roving in a different colorway, that spun it the same way I did, but thicker, is getting fantastic striping as she’s knitting her purse.

I am, however, somewhat disappointed. I wanted something a little more dramatic, more intense. As I opened up the roving, there ended up being a lot of white between the color changes and sometimes within the color itself. My friend’s roving didn’t have any white that I recall, but mine had tons, which diluted the colors.

Yesterday I spun up a crazy-wild batt into yarn for Liv, and I have another one to spin up for Abby.

It’s neat. The label tells you the name of the sheep, the breed, and then the other fibers it’s blended with. In this case, we’ve got Blanca and Valentine, both Romneys, and Snow, a Corriedale cross, plus Bombyx silk, viscose, cut Bombyx silk and silk noil.

Needless to say, it’s very tweedy.

We were at the doctor first thing this morning. I haven’t been talking about it because there’s been so much going on, but Liv’s been coughing her brains out for over a week, and poor Clark’s been constipated, then had diarrhea that burned his poor little bum, then back to constipation and now both of his eyes are covered in green goop and are swollen significantly. Abby came running to me last night saying that “Clark doesn’t look like Clark!”.

He’s been fussy and right now is screaming at my feet. I tried to hold him, but he just thrashed around and kept screaming. And now he’s thrown up.

This sucks.