Omorka's Lair

Woohoo, my sock yarn has arrived! Now I just have to brave the size 0 needles . . . *shudder*

Also picked up some for some exploded-lace crochet projects. I haven't been doing much crochet lately, but these are a bit different from some of the stuff I've done previously - big things with lots of open space, kind of like the filet-crochet pentacle shawl (which I still need to take a photo of and put up on Ravelry).

Got my package from colorwhirl's Destashing-For-Charity event. Now have one lovely ball of a light-spring-green laceweight yarn in a merino-silk blend; a ball of black-with-copper Glitterlash; a cone of fairly thin orange-gold cotton; and three hanks of microfiber ribbon in a really striking cream-to-pewter varigation. The last is currently pondering whether it is willing to try to become a cute top for someone of my size, coloration, and sheer rotundity, or whether it refuses such indignities, in which case I will need to find something else to do with it. The green laceweight is perfectly happy to become one of a number of lace shawl patterns I have lying around, but is laughing at all of my needles, as none of them are fine enough to hold it rightly unless I double-strand it with something. And the Glitterspun is looking at my silly witch hats and demanding to become part of one of those, which I will be happy to do with it - but that's a far back burner project. (The cotton is being amiable but indecisive. It will probably become at least one pair of fingerless gloves later on, but I don't know what else it will find its way into.)

Winding 440 yards of laceweight yarn into a center-pull ball by hand is a royal pain in the tokhis. It would probably help if I had a real nostepinne. (I was using a dowel-rod.)