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Fly my darling
Im so sad to write my beloved Starling has died today. At less then 18 months old, Starling should have lived to be several years. And yet here we are, with starling dead in the water and me with...
The war
Me- We gotta save up money and get a house ASAP. Im dying staying with family. Also me. Tour de fleece starts in like 2 weeks. ORDER ALL THE WOOL! Reality me. Ive got like 10 lbs of alpaca, 4 l...
Silk spinning
Im spinning silk for the first time today.. I wanted to share some photos. To the right is my normal sport weight wool. To the left is silk… This is The FIRST time, In fact i have video of cast...
Black beans
Black beans are soaking. I actually got red beans too and was going to soak those to see what happens. Someone best eat all these beans or i wasted 4 dollars on the beans? lol. I wont cry. But ma...
Black Bean Dye bath ( Natural dyes)
I have NOT done this one. This is from a friend who dyes with natural dye and i want to try it as soon as i get black beans! Small bag of dried beans. Put them in a large glass jar, Fill with h...
Dyeing Silk
So silk is an interesting fiber. For one its from the cocoon of silk moths. Mine is from Mulberry silk worms which primarily eat mulberry leaves. I ordered silk lap as its called which are huge s...
Can i just hire someone for that?
The worst thing in the world is stocking my shop and doing SEO ( search engine tags), the pricing and listing stuff. Cant i just make it. Then photograph it and someone else cna do the rest? Im...
Angora love
Figure, i best share a few projects with you :) This is a small 66 yard skein of red satin angora. Its so shiny!! Im not sure what i can do with 66 yards, But ill figure it out haha. I got a ne...
Kiss me
or feed me oranges and fruit. Whatever.
A handful of spinning related photos. And Jack.
By now Jack has become the indoor bunny. Hes the easiest to photograph, hes close at hand all the time and his personality is awesome. Today while loose. Jack kept going to my basket of spun yar...
I spin in high places
I spin wherever I can. If that means on a drive at 10,000 feet up? With a view overlooking the city, Then YEP! I dO! What you cant see is the massive cliffside im on lol.
The carded wool.
Welp ive finished a skein of the wool from the gifted wool. Its a natural grey fleece. Mostly light grey with some darker grey splashes. For dimension i carded in some of the brown alpaca. Next...
Farm fresh
So the sheeps wool i was washing and carding a few days ago is on Starling (my wheel) Its actually a lot softer then i anticipated. Im enjoying the spin. Im kinda not trying to make it perfect an...
Yarny
I got tired of using a tv table and other random objects to wind my skeins of yarn. So i picked up the items to make a niddy noddy. Cost, 5 dollars including crazy Colorado Taxes. 2 pieces 5 ft ...
New fiber bats
So all of the fiber im sharing is all natural colors. Nothing wild yet. I will eventually buy more white wool to dye and card too :) But im kinda broke for now. This wool was all gifted to me. T...
Drawing up the plans
I didnt get to plucking frostbite today. I really needed to. He has stringers hanging off him. Stinker… Hes rubbing on his water dish and its just making a mess. Wasting wool that boy! Ill have t...
Wool addicted
It always amazes me when people say they are allergic to wool or hate wool that its scratchy. There are SO many types of wool. You would be amazed. So many different animals give wool. Angora w...
Krankers
A few months ago i bought a knitting machine. At first it got used a few times. I knit a few things on it. Then a few more. Since being down south my sister has been using it off and on too. Ton...
Heart of Hope Blanket
Even before my friend died of stomach cancer ( in december) i did pattern testing for this group of ladies called Wing and a Prayer crochet. Each design they do is in memory/dedicated to someone...
Tour De Fleece recap
It ended yesterday! Whew. I didnt get as much time on spinning as i had hoped. So here we go. Total of 64 hours. total of 19 skeins, Total of over 8500 yards. and a few more :) R says, Ready...
Tour de fleece contest
This weeks half week contest is to spin ayarn out of unconventional materials. This aas crazy. I cut strips of news paper and then spun them into a long single. Then plied the single on itself. ...
The next generation
Yesterday i had a kind kid visit me. He bought some loose wool, then i stuffed his bag even more full with extra angora. He was just the nicest boy, loving angoras. I showed him how to spin on hi...
day two
well as i expected, Day two was shorter overall, and didnt do so hot. Kinda a bummer. I only sold around $100 worth of stuff. But at least i sold some things. I do wish i had done better. But ill...
Day one
I did good! No really i did more today then i did the previous year! Granted i priced my wools a bit higher and tomorrow im going to bring the prices down for a sale. But yeah im excited to go ba...
All the pretty colors
This is some of the wool i dyed this week for the fiber festival. I admit, I laid heavily into the blues and greens today. When things have sat in storage for a while. They need a good sunning/...
