Hot days in January

I hope you all survived the FOUR days of above 40C this week. There weren't many visitors to the Studio and I did appreciate the effort made by those that did brave the heat. It's only January!

Anyway, I did start the week very well with an overnight stay in Portsea with hubby and friends. A lovely spot their family has just near the Portsea Pub. (You know the Portsea pub....the "HOW MUCH does two beers and two lemon lime and bitters COST" pub!)

We had a lovely walk along the beach and enjoyed the views of the bay, houses, water and structures. Lovely and cool!

Experimental Spinning

I continued spinning my 'water' yarn and finished it in time for the 10x10 challenge at Experimental Spinning.

I filled a bobbin with 'water' and on another I finished off the top spinning finely, which I plied with the thick, then Navaho plied the remaining fine.

  

After all that I had these two skeins:

I am very pleased with the contrast between the two yarns and feel that I've managed to capture some of my original thoughts about the nature of water.

In search of further inspiration I went in search, through the magazine stash, of pictures of water and discovered, not surprisingly, that water displays itself in many forms. Here is some of my selection for your inspiration.

Isn't it amazing! The colours, the texture and the possibilities that might be revealed with further exploration. Hopefully, I'll manage to use these well in the creations for this year.