Alpacas and bunnys

Today I have been blending some alpaca and angora rabbit hair together and spinning it.  It looks quite nice.  I've used some hand carders I borrowed from QSW&FA to blend the two shades of alpaca (caramel and brown) and the white bunny. Tonight I plan to spin up some of the white silk I have in my stash, which I will ply with the alpaca and bunny mix.  It should be a lovely yarn.  God knows what I will make out of it, it won't be much.   I am trying to make some of my fibre stash into some yarn stash.  Show the Hubby that I am trying to use my stash, not buy more. The problem is though, that the fibres in my stash aren't in large amounts, so whatever I spin has to either be blended together or just make small hanks to use in something later on.   

It's been nice to get back to some spinning after all the knitting...... which reminds me.....

I'VE FINISHED THE COTTON TOP!!!!!    

And it looks lovely.  now I just need to block it.  I finished knitting and sewing up on Monday night and sewed in the ends while I was waiting at the dentists yesterday.   My seaming skills leave a little to be desired, so the joins / seams aren't very well done, but they'll do.  The more items I knit, the more sewing I'll probably have to do and so hopefully my sewing and seaming skills will improve.  Mind you, my next large project I want to do is a seamless jumper - so maybe I won't be seaming for a while! 

I would have written about the top last night, because it is really exciting, but I was in no mood to be excited last night.  That wait at the dentists? was an emergency trip because I have a bloody big hole in my tooth and although I was booked in later this month for a root canal treatment, it got too sore...... or so I thought. 

 I went to the dentist, and she decided to do the first stage of the root canal job then and there.  OOOOWWWW!  So last night I was nursing a sore mouth.  It doesn't help that my jaw is mildly dislocated as well, and having it open for over an hour was not a good thing.  

 While the dentist was doing the treatment, she said "boy, this is a really bad tooth.  The canals are really tiny.  I think you'll have to go to a specialist for the rest of the treatment, and even then, i'm not sure this is going to work."    So after she had finished and the side of my mouth was still heading south, we had a little discussion.   I am not going to continue with the treatment.  The next appointment I have that was going to be the second stage of the root canal job, will now be a tooth extraction.  Yes, the little blighter is coming out.  It just seemed the most sensible option - not to mention the least expensive.  Not really looking forward to that, but the tooth really isn't worth saving.    Poor hubby.  the day I get the tooth removed is his birthday.  More sore and sorry Jenny then.   Today it hasn't been too bad though.  The actual tooth is pretty ok today, but my jaw is objecting.  Just sticking to soft foods.  

Anyway, enough about my oral defects.   I finished the top and am spinning some lovely fibre.  Ahhh, the healing properties of fibre are so often underestimated in our society.  Looking forward to going to spinners tonight.  Yeay!  I hope most of the crowd is there, but tonight is State of Origin football, being held at the stadium only a few blocks or so away from where we meet.  This might deter many from venturing out this evening. But not me!    

Go Queensland!