My order from EcoYarns arrived:

The pale green is Eco-organic Cotton and is so wonderfully soft I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy more since it arrived. The thin brown is Organic Cotton 4ply Buffalo, which is not at all soft, but makes good, sturdy warp yarn. Both of these yarns I bought to weave with the Lion Brand Natures Choice Organic Cotton. Which is ironic from a stash-busting perspective – buying more yarn in order to use yarn.

The black AMAIZing yarn was on special and I couldn’t resist. Yarn made from corn? What the heck – I’ll give it a try! I’m not sure what I’ll make with it. Wierd thing is, it pongs. I’m not sure if that’s the yarn’s natural smell, or if it’s a moth-repellant smell. I’ve put it in the shower in the downstairs bathroom to air for a few months. If that doesn’t work I’ll try washing a skein.

As I mentioned in my last post, I did a bit of a raid of the stash for more charity scarf yarn after updating my stash spreadsheet. I found many more small batches of yarn to use up. Matching weft with warp is endlessly entertaining for my flu/sinus infection fogged mind.

A while back Caroline from s’n’b gave me a box of leftovers, so I wove up a clasped weft scarf from some handspun:

Then after the Ecoyarns order arrived I got stuck into an organic cotton scarf. I’m rather pleased with the first one:

But the brown organic cotton… I got halfway through and realised it was turning into the World’s Most Boring Poo Brown Scarf.

I’m now unweaving it and considering my options. Perhaps a more interesting weave pattern. Perhaps basket weave. Perhaps something using pick-up sticks.

But I haven’t just been weaving. I finished the first sock of my lastest PSC yarn, knit a Colorimetry (using up more small stuff), and finished the last piece of Alex. Here are all the pieces of Alex blocking:

I look at that and suddenly I remember how much I love seaming…