New Year, Best of Intentions

I have decided that this is a year of snail mail. I am so tired of nothing but bills and ads in my PO box and decided that I wanted to make sure that people I love get a sweet little note or art or treat in the mail on a regular basis. I am committing myself to this and know that I will let only myself down if I fail to do this. But for a yarn addict...

I also have set a goal for myself to read 24 books this year. That's not outrages. 2 books a month, doable, but for a yarn addict.....

I also have scored my self a Native American flute and lessons. I have a friend that makes the most beautiful flutes out of reclaimed wood. He is also an accomplished musician. So this year I am going to learn something new. I know how to play a traditional flute and a piccolo, but this will be different for sure. So I'll be practicing a new art, but for a yarn addict....


Well I have been a busy knitter, I am a tad obsessed you might say. It's become an old overgrowth forest of wool in my house, skeins and roving hiding in every nook and cranny, peeking out, just pooling up my imagination. A puddle of possibilities sparkling in the sun. I have a problem with organizing it. I did buy clear storage bins, I sorted and stored by type of yarns, subdivided by color, 2 bins just for roving, some for projects in the works..etc, etc..then I want to try this yarn for this project and that yarn for another, or do these colors go together?, how much do I have in this weight?, and well..before you know it, it's all over the place in different stages of processing. Sooo.. I need a more tactile approach to my stash. If I could just have direct access to touching it and moving it around. I need a little hut of my very own. With walls that are nothing but cubicles, cascading and dripping with colors, textures, dreams and possibilities. Project tables, a sink of course, a small stove for the dye pot, oh and a washing machine, hooks and drying lines, and plenty of room for the Wheel and oh I almost forgot..the Navajo loom my husband built me that I am dying to figure out. Am I alone out here? Who else dreams of a wool room? If you have one, how'd ya do it? If I could get rid of my furniture, I could maybe just convert the living room to my wool room, that should work....who needs a freakin couch? Well wait a minute, I could knit one, or knit a whole new cover for this one, or hell get rid of it and knit up some Hammocks, yeah that'd be cool ...


So for a yarn addict......wish me luck!!!!

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!!!