That last post was long enough that I figured I'd give the pictures their own post.
The lace headband. It's not blocked yet (and it's shown folded over, so I could get it in the frame), but it took just over a week to knit--I knit the first repeat before going to bed on the 23rd, and finished knitting and wove in the ends on New Year's Eve. I used Louet Gems Pearl in Cherry Red, a size-6 bamboo circ, and a zig-zag pattern from Beautiful Knitting Patterns.
The alien wool is all spun! This last batch is a single ply that (miraculously) isn't badly overspun at all. Clearly, I have improved in the last ten months of spinning (i.e., since I started using a wheel), which is reassuring. It's still more thick-and-thin than I'd like, but this is clear progress toward my goal of being able to spin yarn like Malabrigo. (My two gold-standard commercial yarns are Malabrigo and Koigu. I want to be able to spin like that, plus a good, even 2-ply laceweight.)
This is about ten yards of tweedy, mottled 2-ply, around sport-weight. It's two of the three rolags I posted about here (not the greenish one, which I haven't spun yet). I'm so much happier with this than I would've been with the base roving. I bought the Colonial Top in Shale when I bought my first spindle, at MDSW05, as an alternative to the orange-multi wool/mohair that I couldn't resist, but I didn't much like the color after I brought it home. I may still wind up trying to dye it with red kool-aid, but blending is a really nice alternative.
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