Gifted yarn and a winter day!

So this is a scarf I am almost finished with. It is organic wool from 13 mile wool mill

www.lambandwool.com

It is hand dyed and spun by my friend Katey. A thick and thin single plied with a thin thread. A summer group we attended where we weekly tried a new technique out of Judith MacKenzie's book "The Intentional Spinner". I fell in love with this yarn so the day it was given as a gift, I couldn't wait to find a project. To me the color looks like pebbles in the bottom of a Montana stream, so I just created a simple moss stitch pattern. It seemed the perfect way to get the fullness of the yarn to show through and furthered the image of rocks under water. I am not sure who should get this one as a gift, but it is meant for someone artsy for sure. It is a series of pure imagination(s) so hmm... who to gift it too?

It is such a blustery day out there. This is curl up in your jammies witha press pot full of strong coffee spinning wool by the wood stove kinda day. Aahh, winter..oh wait..wtf??? it's freakin' the middle of June. I should just go back to bed and try this one over.

Spin,Spun, Done

This was such a nice project to do. I just completed my first spinning commision. This is a horsehair/wool blend. The pictures do not do justice to the color, it was more a warm cappaccino color. I spun a fine thread and then plied it with another. The result was a nice, fluffy looking two ply that is just a pleasure to look at. I am using an Ashford traveller, double treadle wheel, it works great for me, I would like to Buy a larger flyer and bigger spools. One day, one day!!!

I need a vacation!

Teenagers, uuuggg!!! My rant for the moment. God love em!

Haven't been too creative lately, at least not with the wool stuff, and to make things worse I must have pissed the wool gods off with my lack of creativity because today...this is hard...totally irresponsible... it's hard to believe this happened...I stepped on my Drop spindle. The cat jumped on the couch, bounced my can full of needles and spindles and all, and this being a BIG one, bounced out and I remember thinking, I do that occasionally, I better not forget to pick that up. Well I forgot and as I was in a hurry looking for something heard this awful snap/crack and my heart sank. I can hardly bare this. I keep looking at it hoping it isn't true. I have others, but this one was special, a gift, a fat yarn maker. Oh man...this has been a hard day.

Dyed some yarn, came out bubblegum pink. Like I was going for that. Found out I could over dye and tone it down a bit. But as we speak I am working on using one skein to make a shibori felted scarf just for s@!#s and giggles. I have a plan we'll see if it works out better than the last pink one I had. All for fun.

I need a vacation.

changes

Lots of changes happening. New beginnings, and endings. Is making me even more introspective.

The weather is still nice, but they say a storm is coming. Hard to believe. Last night Wade and I heard a loud clap of thunder and it was kinda fun. Not a cloud in the sky, only stars. I wonder how that happened? I live in such a beautiful place. I will never tire of the landscape, I am tired of the isolation. It's lonely. I have my boy's, I know they care, but it's different. Let's face it, I am just saturated with testosterone, and double teenage testosterone at that. I'll be fine and sad the day it ends, just challenging for now. I need a girls night on a regular basis. I might have to work on that.

Had to put my dog to sleep right before Christmas, I know it was time but still a bit sad about it. She was my girl, my pal. I hope she's happy where ever she is.

I am still trying to catch my wave. I need an art project and I want something new and different to try. It needs to be three dimensional what ever it is. A vessel. Something to hold my dreams, and made of them at the same time. Something with tile, or maybe a paper mache vase. Weird, not my mediums at all. Could be fun.

Spring Fever?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


Is it too early for spring fever? I am dreaming about a garden. No thought of the VERY small container garden I had last year and was totally tired of it at the end. I dream of flowers and fresh salads and dinner party's. Right. I think in 18 years of marriage I have had people over for dinner maybe three times. I see my house as I wish it were. I have no idea how to pull that off. Well, all a girl can do is dream of spring and flowers and fresh salads and a perfect day.

Still am working on a Christmas present. I will remind myself this year that Christmas knitting starts now. No excuses, no putting it off. I am finding with the one I am trying to finish, that I love the elaborate. The exquisitly beautiful. No one wants an ugly acrylic anything. I like wool, blended with silks, angoras, cashmere. They are a pleasure to knit with and to watch fabric created before your eyes, oozing from your own hands is well, the best gift.

I have decided that 2010 is the year of creation. I can feel this wave of creativity swelling in me, in the air around me. I just have to figure out how to get on that wave. Ride it, believe in myself, follow through. No idea is stupid. Try that phrase on for size! I need to create for the sake of creation, not for outcome. I want art I can wrap my hands around.

This is going to be a good year.