Christmas update

At last measurement the scarf was 238.875 ft. That is 5.97% of the goal. Work has slowed some now that the scarf is permanently at Drew's house. However I did get a few feet done while watching movies this week. And I managed to get a couple of pictures!
I'm still working with handspun from Eilonwy.

Here we have (if i'm reading her yarn key correctly) is soy silk and merino with a little soy/cashmere blended into it early on. The merino is from a pound of purple and pink roving that I sent her.











I'll take this directly from the key... "ball o' orange based mixed colors. This is an early yarn, recently re-found. It's the same fiber ysed in skeins I sent before, but those were plied with green or orange and this is plied on itself."

The skein of the blue thread

Once upon a time, the wonderful spinner Eilonwy, of http://www.project-cat.blogspot.com/

fame, sent me a box of yarn she had spun. One of the skeins was an innocent looking skein of mixed fibers plyed with blue sewing thread. Little did I know what I was getting myself into.

I began to knit. And the skein kept going ..

and going

and going

And going.

(I'll skip the next 5 pictures and get right on to the end...)

Until finally, the skein was finished...