I was in the bedroom when my beloved brought me the morning post. He handed me a package, soft and squishy. Then he went off to make bacon sandwiches. When he came back, he found me sitting on the bed, clutching the package to my chest and with tears in my eyes. He asked me what was wrong, but I couldn’t speak.

Ask those who know me - it takes a lot to make me speechless.

Like this lot:

A package from an anonymous donor, via The Alpaca Spinner. In it: Cheviot, Blue Faced Leicester, and some Alpaca roving.

Thank you. Thank you, very much indeed!

I am going to be paying forward for a long time to come - I have been extraordinarily blessed recently to receive several very fine and extremely generous gifts from remarkably thoughtful people.

I am still recovering my powers of speech so, “In Other News Today” consists mainly of:

1. I am having terrible trouble with my Dragon and have to get a new one
2. I desperately want to knit a St Brigid aran sweater. Desperately!
3. I am definitely coming up short on the yarn for the Clapotis. I haven’t knit any more (v sore arm) but I have done the sums - and they don’t add up.
4. I am very behind on email (about a week) please bear with me while I  get my Dragon installed and trained (again)

What I do not understand is; I have checked some Clapotis projects on Ravelry and several persons have done a Clapotis in Hipknits Aran Silk - and only used 3 skeins. So how come I am short, with 4???

Swatch? No. Of course not… you don’t take me for a sensible/experienced/professional knitter, do you? Anyway, I don’t believe tension is so off as to make so large a difference*. At the moment I look like being 36 rows short of a full Clapotis. THIRTY SIX! At eight quid a skein, it’s just going to have to be a short scarf.

*Maybe Treacle eats silk yarn as well as sheep fleece?