Forgot to say – I hoard jam jars. Ostensibly for preserves, I amass far too many for use on the intended manner, and occasionally I rationalise the bags of rubbish.
The other day I was clearing them out before we went to the bottle bank. Mr L asked for some of the nastier ones, to go into the garage as paintbrush cleaning pots and screw storage etc. I spotted the Lloyd Grossman sauce ones (Lidl sometimes do them on a BOGOF basis and we like the green curry ones) in his hands and suddenly realised that I had a far better destination for them. I seized them back and went to clean the label glue off a little better than I had done previously…
…and today I began to sort out little pots of colour. I’m putting scraps of fibres and small embellishments in colour-sorted jars. I’ll decorate the lids at some point, as they aren’t pretty at the moment, and then I’m going to line them up on the windowsill in my workroom as storage cum decoration cum inspiration. They are nice jars, they have a pleasing shape to them.
The only thing is, I don’t have enough jars of the same shape to sort all my colours in a totally aesthetically pleasing manner. I’m going to have to buy more curry sauce!
Spinning
I’ve plied two bobbins of my early Jacob spinning and it is now both skeined and soaking in the sink. It was funny to see how the spinning had improved so rapidly across the two bobbins. I shall have to mix up the 5 balls before I knit my wall hanging, or it will be a very funny shape indeed!
