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Last winter I checked Spinning for Softness and Speed by Paula Simmons out from the Salem Library. (One thing I do have to say for our area, the libraries are knitter and spinner friendly places.)

The yarn pictured was the result of reading said book and trying the techniques therein, I wasn’t really fond of the yarn in particular at the time, but when I was sorting through my stash I came across it and I’m looking at it with different eyes.

So I decided to knit it up into a garter stitch rectangle, and throw it in the washing machine with some pinkish/crimson dye. It’s agitating with soap at the moment.

I have no idea what I’m going to use the cloth for, I guess it depends on how it turns out. One idea that I had was to embellish it with some ribbon or bits of fabric and just use it for holding the service dishes at dinner. (Doesn’t that sound fancy? I have cheap dishes, they need all the help they can get.)

Another idea was to felt it up firmly and use it as– felt. I just don’t know, it was a spur of the moment idea crafty impulse to do something and then worry about the consequences later.