Month: September 2007

Are you sick of my hand spinning blah, blah, blah yet? The thing is I haven’t really been doing much else, I’ve been working during the day and then it’s just so relaxing to just spin in the evening. I am going to be out this weekend doing fun girlie stuff so hopefully I’ll bring you something a little more interesting soon 🙂 Meanwhile…Put into cakes like this you can see how the Navajo plied one self stripes. I think I am going to do hats with both of these so I can really see the…

I have a bunch of emails to answer, so if some are yours sorry! One of the emails I got was a request to go over how you spin yarn. Sure! Now just remember I’m no expert, I’ve taken a few lessons, but I still feel like I only know the basics. So basically you need a fiber and something to spin it with. I use a wheel, but there are also drop spindles, cheaper, but they look like it might take a herculean amount of hand eye coordination to figure out. I think that might…

Today I went to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival. I totally stocked up on Fiber (huge shock I know). I updated my Flickr with all of it so check it out if you like. My favorite:I’m really interested to see how it spins up. That’s a pound of fiber for $17, whoo hoo! I also got to see lots of fiber producing animals, including a camel! I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. Maybe? But I never remember petting one, and they are surprisingly soft: Cute, huh? Then I caught this sheep in a…