At a meeting of the Twisted Threads Fiber Arts Guild at Shady Grove Farm in Apex. I was doing a little show & tell for The Book and Joe was talking trial with his book. While we were there, Wimi fell in love with a bit of bling:

This is an evolving afghan made with wild yarn using a modular knitting technique that joins the mitered squares as you knit. Fun stuff.

And on a more earthy note:

The brownish swatch is 2 parts wool, 1 part alpaca, and 1 part red merl (that’s dog fur), spun up into one fun fiber by Judy Tysmans, owner with her husband, Dirk, of Shady Grove Farm . The colored swatch is the “engineering prototype” (thanks to Dirk for the language), knitted on needles from size 1 to 10. Judy decided on size 6 needles to make the Shetland Triangle shawl from Wrap Style. She’s working in the natural colors of the fiber, but it may be destined for the dye vat, hence the colored swatch, done with a zap in the microwave. Wimi is obscuring the shawl pattern, but it’s really lovely, worked from the center back out to the edge.