Well, the Natural Fleece won

Well, the Natural Fleece won the project battle last night (although I did work a little on the remaining project I need to finish before Christmas). I decided that this would be a good project to work out my Continental yarn handling skills, but discovered that it makes my tension much too tight. So I went back to my yarn throwing "technique" (if you can call it a technique), and that made the tension come out perfectly. I guess I will have to try better yarn handling with my Debbie Bliss project where I needed a much tighter gauge than I was generating.

The Natural Fleece is very pleaseant to work with so far. I thought I would end up catching my needle points in it a lot, but it slides well and the fine thread that winds around it doesn't get caught at all. I love "slubby" yarns because they add interesting texture without special stitching.