Archive for spinning
{ September 30, 2007 @ 10:38 pm }
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{ Finished Objects, spinning }
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{ September 22, 2007 @ 12:01 am }
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{ Dyeing Fiber, Gnome N Clayture, spinning }
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This was my last dye class and it wasn’t a dissapointment. Wow we worked with Indigo and Logwood. Guess what, i got to tye dye a shirt just like the old days of hippydom. Who would have guessed, the Queen a hippy, not quite but I do remember them. We did have cameras back then and they were more advanced than a Brownie. Well anyway Indigo is a very strong dye, along with Logwood so you have to be careful not to turn everything blue, blue, blue. The colors are very rich though and I dipped my beautiful, yellows into the indigo and came out with fabulous greens. Go figure. Well now i just have to decide what to knit up with my array of dye stuff. If you have suggestions send them don’t be shy. 
The Gnomes wanted to say Hi! to everyone
And I am spinning up some wonderful colors of fiber. This is 2 oz of a limited edition from Capistrano Fiber Arts Studio handpainted by Lori Lawson. 50% Alpaca/50% Blue Face LeicesterWool. I picked it up in California a couple years back, before I had a spinning wheel because of the color way. Did I ever do good work, this is a beauty to spin.
Then to make matters even more interesting i picked up this hand made loom at Three Wishes. The different wood these looms are made of are gorgeous, there was one i liked better, but i went with the size and practicalness. Is that a word? Use up singles and get the weaving bug out of the system….
{ September 4, 2007 @ 10:02 pm }
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{ September 3, 2007 @ 10:00 pm }
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{ knitting, spinning }
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{ August 17, 2007 @ 10:29 pm }
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{ Life, knitting, spinning }
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Yesterday I had such a great day with some marvelous people. The owner of my favorite fiber store, (Three Wishes) Kristine hosted a Natural Dyeing Class with fiber artist Carolyn. (www.greenwoodfiberworks.etsy.com). What a blast, although I was totally overwhelmed by all the information, my processing chip must be getting rusty, dusty, and disjointed. I should have thought about it before hand and done a bit of educational reading, but I really didn’t know what to read. I’ve been busy, doing my other 101 hobbies and interests, plus getting ready for a visit from the Duchess, and the arrival of “W”, oh and the Queen Mother. Is that enough excuses? Yes I thought so. Well anyway back to this great class. We discussed mordants and dyes. We made natural reds and almost purple. Purple is a hard color to produce vibrantly. For instance when I rinsed my wool and the color went down the drain. Drats! We boiled and stirred wool over cauldrons of fire and I felt like one of the 3 witches. CACKLE! CACKLE! CACKLE! Suits me I know. It was great. I met some very fun new friends. Melinda, who volunteers at “This Is The Place or Pioneer Heritage Park” where she spins every Thur and on many different wheels (Jealous all you spinners?) Katy (who happens to be Carolyns’ favorite sister) is a great mother who won sweepstakes at the fair for her knitting, and Kat a special ed teacher and her son.
{ July 3, 2007 @ 11:38 am }
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{ June 28, 2007 @ 5:25 am }
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{ Life, knitting, spinning }
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The Duchess made a strong point of practice makes perfect in the art of spinning. Well being the good Queen that i am i took her advice under advisement and have to agree. Schack and i are doing better, so now i am considering a traveling wheel to go with me like knitting needles and yarn. Possibly that will open up the idea to the King that we should travel a bit more than around the yard. Well we will see for now we have an 80th birthday celebration to tackle and a youth trek in Wyoming to tackle and then we start preparing for W.
But for now we have spun up some bobbins
And then we were so excited about the fiber we won from random picks on Yarnnation that we decided to spin it up next. What do you think, fabulous colors right. Just leave your comments below. It’s very easy to do. 
{ June 12, 2007 @ 4:46 am }
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{ Gnome N Clayture, New Babies & Stuff, spinning }
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A Quick finished object, Hurray for the Queen.
and a little more fiber on the wheel..
{ May 26, 2007 @ 4:48 pm }
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{ knitting, spinning }
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This sweet lamb is Jael, and my sweet flock of royal children and grandchildren adopted her for me from the Schacht Fleece Farm. Can you think of anything more exciting, a real lamb to raise and then spin her fleece. Mandy Corry will be his shepherdess and keep me posted about Jaels growth and personality. I can hardly wait . She is an Icelandic lamb which will provide very soft and beautiful colored gray with black tipped fleece. To read more about my lamb and the program check out Schachtfleecefarm.com. Pretty amazing my kids and my new lamb.
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Can you believe i’m still knitting kitchen clothes. I really like to try out new color combinations and it’s easy. Yes..
This is small and portable, and very classy.
and i haven’t forgotten about the contest, it is on going for about another week. 
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That is correct handcart pioneers to go along with the Trek which is in July. The King and I are going as a Ma & Pa and we will have 8 children to shepard for 4 days. Yes we are accepting luck and condolences from one and all. That brings us to the apron.
This is where i want to scream… I edited this but it refuses to edit on the blog. Stupid thing… Anyway the dress is also done after much consternation and Queen Mother intervention. I just need to put dress and apron on body and take picture. Relativly easy you would think. Anyway you will have to wait for that. 
Gnome was sunning himself out in the back yard, we have been having some beautifully warm days.
If you look very carefully you will see another Gnome cousin on the wall in the left hand picture. The royal dogs Johnny Cash & Sophie.
