First of all, I can’t believe I forgot to post my latest finished object, from over 2 weeks ago!! Yes, the baby bolero for “Princess Kamryn”:http://www.kamrynlily.com is done! p=. Pattern – Sirdar Baby Bolero pattern 1646 Yarn – Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino in Wine color Needles – size 2 and size 4 US addi turbos…
Our Flock and other updates
Yes, life is crazier than before, but I can see it getting a bit more under control this week – thank goodness! Here are some notes, more for my records than anything else, but who knows, someone may find it of interest. Frankie Lee, our Romney ram from a prize winning bloodline started acting strange…
Wool for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
p=. I guess I ran myself ragged the past couple of weeks, reducing my immune system’s defenses to a mere baby gate, therefore I fell ill, at the worst of times, to the same bug that all of my kids had just finished passing around. 102+ degree (F) temperatures sure do shake the stuffing out…
Crazy Lounging Squirrel
Sock Blockers from Sherry and Dave
Spinning Silk and Wool
Life and those Crazy, Lounging Squirrels
p=. WoW! Things have been crazy with an extra topping of nuts lately. I’ll have FARM reports soon!! We are almost setup. We went into this knowing it was wild and crazy, and that there would be great amounts of hard work involved, but never quite saw how much it would temporarily take over our…
Happy 4 Year Blogiversary to Me!
Happy May Day 2006 – delayed
p=. _Purple Iris from our front yard._ Life has been a _RIDE_ lately. So, out of pure exhaustion, I’m going to attempt a sort of pictorial wrap-up, with more details to follow soon. The last day of April we went and met up with a group of local spinners at the gracious Sherry’s house. It…
My 2nd skein of handspun yarn goes to Mom
p=. _Lily of the Valley from our front yard._ Mom hasn’t tried the spinning wheel, yet, so I spun up some of the two-colored romney on 2 bobbins, and plied them together for her. Once again it’s a bulky yarn, but I do love how the colors switched and blended. It came out to be…