oops

Okay, I totally fell off the wagon of my bloggy March goal, but things in the Hobbledehousehold have been hairy. How's that for a lame + broad excuse? For starters, I dyed up 40 lengths of hand-dyed merino roving, I've created new yarn, batt, and roving labels, and I've been occupied with a cold that's kept me pretty unenthused about wool. I've also caught the podcast bug- after months and months of resistance. I'm working through Lime and Violet, This American Life, Studio 360, and Grammar Girl- please suggest more!

So here's the roving:

My studio is strung with ropes of plain solid and semi-solid lengths of merino for carding batts this weekend, and I'm experimenting and weighing out colorways for a carding session this morning.

Even though T has been helping me out with Hobbledehoy (mostly with Jawbreaker batts and dye marathons), he's starting to feel more and more bummed about the lack of jobs in this area. With three degrees and a killer resume, he's finding himself overqualified for just about everything. A thick cloud of unemployment blues has been really dampening our otherwise jolly home, so we're constantly debating ways to either expand Hobbledehoy to accomodate two, or how we can build T's career from scratch through self-employment. I have this crazy idea- that he can do what I did (accidently): create a fulfilling job out of a hobby. Fingers crossed, of course.