On Again, Off Again

The needles, that is.

Been a while since I’ve posted a Daphne Bea project update.

In that time, I’ve alternately thought I was almost done, then ripped back the whole collar to add a couple inches to the body, then re-knit the collar, adding some additional short rows and increases so that the collar folds back and lays flat more readily.

And now (as of this afternoon), it is back off the needles-

I’ve not yet tried it on again, because it is way too hot right now (weather station is saying 89F).

So I am hiding in the house, drinking iced tea and waiting for the sun to start to go down.

I realized earlier today that I’d forgotten to post a followup on my recent lanolin collecting efforts.

Back in early May, I had maybe 2/3 cup of lanolin mixture that I’d skimmed from cooled fleece washwater, but I was hoping to get it a little more reduced. I played around with heating it, thinking maybe that some water would separate, and then when that failed, I decided to freeze it. Because, why not?

So nothing happened in the freezing itself, but once it was a solid block, I turned it out onto paper towels, and found that as it thawed, it let go of quite a bit of water into the towels, and I could easily scrape the remaining pasty substance off with a spatula. I think it lost about 1/3 of it’s volume.

Since then, I’ve used it to condition my potting bench

and also some garden tool handles. So I’m pretty chuffed about how that worked out.

Alrighty. Think that’s all I’ve got for now.

Stay cool, and have a good week folks-