Finish line

Imagine this. Horns honking, people yelling in a foreign language. A lone biker pulls over. Some officious looking person walks over. "The race is over and you still have cotton and alpaca to spin."
Yeah I still have cotton and alpaca. Though I'm saving some of the alpaca for my baby sister to try her hand at spinning. I did spin up the ounce of silk. That's a bit hard. it's spun thick and thin. I"m thinking about getting some wool to ply it with. then I'll wash it in hot water, aggitate. Yeah I'm going to felt it! Okay enough of that.

Inspiration
So I went to the beach and took some pictures for inspiration. Above is some seaweed with the little bulbs. I'm thinking felt some yellow green wool like bulbs and attach them, like an art yarn.

Then there's this, the big brown stem. Don't know about art yarn, maybe some knit pattern with some cable using a brown yarn.

I love the red-orange in this piece of seaweed. maybe I'll keep the color in mind for dyeing sometime in the future.

here we have a feather with some seaweed. The sunday before when I went with mom and dad I had seen something similair and thought of some art yarn, some green or brown wool with feathers and  wool locks in it.

Spinning my Wheel
Above is some of the 8 ounces of alpaca I bought during the week and spun up. in reality it's a little more reddish brown. I also got some green and yellow wool Wednesday in Sequim for a pair of socks I want to make some time with pink roses on a black background so I still need the black, pink and light pink wool to spin up instead of buying the yarn.
This week I'm planning on going back to Sea-Tac with mom and dad. So I'll take some wool, the cotton and some alpaca and spin on my spindle. Then we're going to Spokane to visit and take my sister and nieces back to Port Townsend.
On and Off the needles
Still working on Citron got some more work done just at the last two rows of the last section before the ruffled edge. Haven't got anymore done on Flotsam and Jetsam but maybe this week while I'm with mom and Dad in Seatac.