The past few days have been beautiful spring days, today the high of 52 occurred at 7 a.m. and is headed down to freezing tonight with snow flurries expected shortly for an hour or so. The wind has kicked up and is rocking the trees in their new coats of tiny leaves.
The littles all returned to the coop on their own last night. The escape hatch was sealed with rocks and an additional fence post before they were let out yesterday morning, but one managed to find a way into the garden compost pile. I will have to try to figure out how that happened as that side of the pen has double fence to make the holes smaller and is tight to the ground. She was removed and returned to her flock without incident. I’m unsure about letting them out this morning. The hens would return to their coop if it started cold rain or snow, I’m not sure the littles are that savvy yet.
Last evening, we went west to the next town to get carry out Tex/Mex dinner and as we sat in their parking lot eating, a quick storm came through producing the first rainbow of the season for me.
We watched as it went from a sliver on the south end to a full ground to ground arc that was wide enough to see all the prismatic color bands.
As a test for my bag idea for my shop, I took the scraps I was knitting into the log cabin mini blanket apart and started Tunisian Crocheting them into a 6″ wide strip. I think if I crochet strips, using different yarn scraps and sew them together, line them with quilting cotton, and add a braided leather thong handle, they will make nice bags. This strip will continue until it is as long as my craft display table is wide then I will start another strip of other breeds and make my scrappy blanket that way to show off the breed differences.
While we were returning from dinner and watching the rainbow develop, another square for the larger Breed Blanket was finished. Earlier in the year, I spun and knit a square of Gotland wool, but had only enough for one square. I purchased another couple of ounces of it and finished the second square last night. The rest will be spun and used in the scrappy blanket and in bags.
That makes three breeds again this month and 5 more squares knit for the blanket. So far there are 20 blocks each 8 inches square with 8 more months to go. I have no idea how that blanket will ever be able to be washed with all the different wools and the size it will be. I would just wash it and let it felt except that the wools wouldn’t all felt to the same size and some are more resistant to felting at all.