Actually - to be exact that should be merino sheepy goodness... see??

Everything you see there is off a merino sheep... well, except for the wood bobbin, and the cotton quilt, and the plastic bags, or their sticky labels, or the rubber soles on the boots... but that's not what I'm talking about, and you know it, so don't be so literal!

This is part of my Christmas spoils from my mom and dad... some merino sheep skin boots (even softer than they look, if that's possible!) and 1.5lbs of merino rovings.

I'd started spinning the pink (as you can see). It's really soft and drafts so well. But you want to know the best part about combed top? No little bits of veggie fiber (or *cough* other organic matter ;-) ) to stop and pick out! You just spin. Now there's still something to be said for carded fibers, but this is a really nice change...

I've since finished spinning it and it's a nice plump little hank waiting to be wound into a ball and knitted!

I knitted several Christmas gifts this year, one of which was the Touch of Whimsy Scarf made of Blue Sky Alpaca's 'Alpaca & Silk' which I need to post the pre-blocked-yarn-blob and FO pictures of... Hopefully that post will be following shortly, I'm trying to get back into the swing of things now that we're over the holidays and getting settled into the new year...