phat fiber has landed!

First of all, let's give props to the mail lady for braving my front porch:

Those are Asian Ladybugs, MILLIONS of them! Once a week during the soybean harvest, we get inundated by them. We end up having to use the back door to keep them from invading the house too much.

Anyone want a free Lazyboy? Bugs are yours to take care of though.
OK onto the package:

Oh Fiber-y goodness is just ooozing out of the box!
I laid all the stuff out on my stove.

Close up of the upper part
And Close up of the lower part:

I then put it all carefully back in the box so that I can take it to open knitting at the Dragonfly tomorrow so the ladies can see all the cool stuff.

Gotta go. I think there's an Asian ladybug crawling up my leg!

Comments

monkeyspinner said…

I am so jealous!!! My box hasn't come yet. I really could sue some ladybugs too!!! Hope you enjoy the box. ( connected from rav)

October 22, 2009 at 9:28 AM

Darcys Knotty Knitter said…

I love your loot lots of pretties and I'm following your blog now.Hugs Darcy
darcysknottyknitter@gmail.com

January 14, 2010 at 4:54 PM

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