The Dragon's Lair

The WEBS order came!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, I'm quite remiss in my blogging duties because it actually came last Wednesday - but I was sorting yarn all the rest of that day, gone Thursday, and Friday was catch-up-from-being-gone-Thursday day (for some reason my house still doesn't clean itself, despite all my efforts to convince it that it really should... go figure!).

But now I shall show you all my wonderful, fibery goodies!

You should have seen me Wednesday afternoon, checking for the UPS man every ten minutes (two minutes? 30 seconds? It was kinda hard to tell in that state of mind...) And he had the nerve to be running later than usual that day!! I mean really - didn't he sense what an important package he was carrying? Couldn't he feel the urgency being beamed his general direction? Some people's telepathic abilities really leave a lot to be desired ;-)

But the rumble of the UPS truck was eventually heard. And a few minutes after that tell tale sound, These were sitting on the table:

These were soon opened up to receive the appropriate amount of oohs and ahhs. The two giant boxes revealed this:

Then the sorting began! After the initial dividing up into separate colors and such, I focused on the many cones of rayon. They all needed weighed and tagged, like so:

This becomes quite a process, and takes up a pretty decent chunk of evening time, when you have over 60 cones to do... but aren't they pretty??

Eventually, things were all sorted out and handed off to their respective owners. Here is my lovely pile of fibery treasures now proudly filling out my stash:

25 cones of rayon, 13 tubes of rug warp, 4 cones of pearl cotton, 2 shuttles, 10 bobbins, and a heddle/reed hook. This has at least doubled the little stash I started collecting recently. I can now stand tall and know that I have a bona fide weaving stash of my very own! I won't have to always buy project to project or mooch off of the yarn stashes of those around me. Yay!!

Can you see me grinning? It's a really big, silly looking grin. Very silly looking. Yarn makes me happy