Oooooh…. Fiber.
This arrived in the mail yesterday. The flash washed it out a bit. Those white areas are more of a cream (creme?) color. This is 4 oz. of Merino that I got off ebay from these folks. Its purdy.
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Updates
First, how’s the March to-do list coming along? Jaywalkers are done. I did a smidge of knitting on the cut-out cardi sleeves. Just a smidge. The alpaca twin rib scarf is currently about 14 inches long and languishing on the shelves in the family room. (Still no pictures. Me bad.) Leo. Do we have to […]
Continue reading →Spinning Class
First, prior to class I spent the afternoon emptying off the TiVO and spinning. I worked on some of the alpaca that I got on Saturday. This took a bit. I later learned in spinning class why I was having more trouble. Apparently alpaca fibers don’t adhere to one another like wool fibers do so […]
Continue reading →New Family Member?
We went to Seattle today after church and made some purchases. Then we ran around like tourists. Here’s Molly trying to hide our newest family member. Here’s Dana helping to assemble our newest family member. And here’s Anna Grace trying to steal the show. The two white things she’s holding are each remote controls. She […]
Continue reading →All Sorts of Fibery Goodness
Friday I dug around on the internet and placed an order here for some corriedale roving. I had run out of roving from my spinning class and didn’t want to get stuck. Anyway, Fiber 2 Yarn is run by a lady in Buckley and is just a few minutes from my house. We set up […]
Continue reading →Adventures in Spinning
I had a great time at spinning class. First, the drive was awesome! I drove to Seattle and was coming into town just as the sun was setting. First, there was a very vibrant rainbow. The colors didn’t show up completely in the photo but it was a stunner. And yes….. I did take pictures […]
Continue reading →Spinning Wheel Questions
Does anybody have an Ashford Joy? If so, do you like it? If you had it to do over again would you still buy it? How about a Lendrum? Anybody got a lendrum double treadle (the fold up kind)? What’s your review? Would you buy it again? Lets try this…. if you have a spinning […]
Continue reading →Happy Dance
Guess what I’m doing tonight? I’m going here to take a class in this. I talked myself out of it over and over again. Said I had too much to do, too many projects. But, I can’t get it out of my head. So, I’m taking a class and I’m renting a wheel for a […]
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