Category Archives: Spinning

Wool Gathering coming up

I’m getting ready to take “Learn to Spin” kits and niddy-noddy-nostpinnes to the Wool Gathering on Saturday.

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Anyone want to try spinning? Everything you need is here– a handmade drop spindle, an illustrated book of instructions, and 2 oz. of wool roving. These kits could be good to include in your Back-tack bags, for those of you participating! I’ve seen lots of hinting blog entries out there, like this one by Amy at angry chicken. If anyone wants me to set a kit aside before I sell it this weekend, leave me a comment and say if you’d like light (birch), medium (cherry), or dark (walnut) wood. (Oh–prices. Kits are $22 with $5 shipping and handling)

If you’re my buddy, I’ll leave some hints soon:)

Mother’s Day was almost a month ago, I know

but I haven’t blogged about it. I’m excited about the gifts I gave, so I want to put pictures up here.

Barry’s mom got the first bear I ever made all repaired and ready to sit on a shelf.

For my mom I knit some handspun angora yarn from my rabbit Sally.

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Can you see how soft she is? Angora yarn is so fun the way is fluffs out and gets a fuzzy halo. I put a little bag of lentils in her body and she sits perfectly.

What do you think of her hooded sweater– with earholes? The yarn is handspun wool that I dyed when it was roving (with pink lemonade and blue raspberry lemonade) then spun it. It turned out to be a nice perwinkle color, so Brenna decided that was what the bunny had to be named.

Happy mother’s day moms! I hope you like your little critters :)

bits and pieces

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It started as this. Then it was this. My super soft angora yarn has been sitting in my yarn bowl for months just waiting to be transformed into something other than a skein, and April’s bunny pattern was the perfect thing!

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Despite my crazy day I got quite a bit done. We started swimming lessons at the YMCA. Jonah screamed, so despite my best efforts to swim laps while my kids were in class, I ended up standing by Jonah, trying to convince him that holding on to the wall with me two feet away or 20 was the same thing. Brenna the fish had a blast.

Then we had the food delivery at church and one of the sisters didn’t get most of the groceries she needed. So, I spent the afternoon on the phone trying to track down canned goods and beans while Logan screamed and eventually fell asleep in the high chair.

Now it’s time for me to do yoga and go to bed.