Day 5 Tour de Fleece

Day 5 of Tour de Fleece, the fiber of the day is a Coopworth fleece I purchased once again at the Big E fiber festival last year : )

I am really enjoying spinning on my Canadian Production Wheel! Spun up the Coopworth and plied it with the Shetland I spun the other day, also I am posting the Coopworth/Shetland skein along with the Shetland/Moorit skein .

Day 4 Tour de Fleece

Day 4 of spinning Moorit fiber and plying it with the Shetland fiber.

Tuesday nite was knitting nite at Barnes & Noble so I took my drop spindle and did some spinning Alpaca.

Day 3 Tour de Fleece

Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day and welcome to day 3 of Tour de Fleece! Here is the picture of the skein that I spun on day 1 and 2 Romney and Lincoln 219 yds. The Romney fleece was purchased from the Barnstable Fair, and the Lincoln fleece was purchased from the first year that the Big E hosted a fiber festival! Looking forward to this year's Big E fiber festival : ) And I will be at the Barnstable Fair demonstrating spinning, hope to see you down there as it is a wonderful Fair for all !

Day 3: I spun from a Shetland fleece that I purchased last year when I went to NH Sheep & Wool festival.

Oh Yeah here is what can happen to a footman when you are not watching lol!

Tour de Fleece day 2

Day 2 of Tour de Fleece, team Russian underpants, day 1 spent time spinning on my CPW (Canadian Production Wheel) spinning a Romney fiber, sorry no pics on that day ; ( Today I spun Lincoln fiber and plied it with the Romney, will post the yarn picture tomorrow when it is dry, but I do have this picture of me spinning the Lincoln fiber. Twisted the footman on my CPW, just like a bike, have to stop and fix the coat hanger that served as a footman : p

Summer time

Beginning of summer but still feels like spring. It is nice being on top of a mountain because the temperature is cooler. I have been busy getting things ready for my tatting class and creating ways to use tatting. Found out that you can use tatted items to imprint on polymer clay!

Also dyed yarn , knitted and felted a cloche hat and trimmed it with tatting.

And knitted and felted a purse and added a felted tatted item and trimmed the top flap of the purse with a tatted trim.

Spring is Here!

Spring is here! Looking around and seeing the green grass showing and the flowers peeking through is a sight to behold after a long winter. Even the birds are excited with all the chirping, singing makes me happy!

Easter is just around the corner so I decided to tat an Easter Egg for my next tatted item.

Still on my list of tatted items is jewelry, finishing a quilted block I was working on. Hopefully I can find the book, you know how things get when you move, you wonder what box I put it in and did I put it up in the attic. But I just might post it as a work in progress : )

Here is the quilt block that I need to finish, I have to find her gloves, aren't we always losing our gloves : )

It's been soooo long!

My time flies when your busy! New Goals - Keep blogging or you'll get a flogging argh !

Alot has been happening since I last posted, like moving to a different state. I love my new home it is nice and spacious, I even have a studio Fiber Playhouse. So I have been going batty making batts, cleaning and picking and carding fleeces. Dyeing and spinning and designing patterns.

Went to Maine in February for SPA weekend and had so many laughs and eyes filled with eye candy, hands busy feeling yummy fiber, and of course meeting old and new friends, what more could you ask for!

Bummer hubby got laid off but on the upside it got me motived to keep focus on my Fiber Playhouse business, so there are patterns to make up and sell, fiber to sell, orifice hooks, or if you need your fleece cleaned and carded into batts I am here! Just contact me : )

Also I will be teaching needle tatting in Maine at the Fiber College so that is exciting. Hope to see you there!