The Jury is still deliberating!

I managed to get it together. Used it to skein the last of my brown wool. Was not able to treddle my wheel. Not quite sure why. Once I got the skein off the winder, my wheel treddled with no problem. So I guess that I will have to play with it a little bit more.

For the first time since I have started spinning I have spun a whole fleece. I have 8 skeins of yarn. 3 of them are off the plying bobbin that goes with my Suzie. So they are big skeins of about 600 yards. The others are about 300. I think that I will have plenty to make the sweater that I want. Now to find that sweater pattern.

What a wonderful fall day!

It was the perfect day to wash my handspun skeins and hang them out to dry. I have 13 skeins hanging out there. Hard to believe that I had that many done. When I was on vacation about a month ago, is when I did most of it.
Now need to find a place to keep them so that the puppy that we have will stay out them.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered the skeinwinder for my Suzie. It came in pieces with no directions.
Here it is.

While I was trying to figure out how I was going to use it and put it together I put my hands to work and made a dishcloth.


My kitchen is red, so it will fit in well.
Now I guess I will finish spinning the brown roving. It is almost done.

Vacations at home are great

Sorry that it has been so long since my last entry. Have been on vacation this week and my goal was to get some cleaning and spinning done. It started with an offer to spin at a both at the local fair. I have been spinning since then. The first picture is of my country craftsman spinning wheel. I was not sure that I had posted a picture of it. What a great wheel. I have just finished spinning merino tencil from the sheep shed in color was dusk. I had bought 2 2ounce hanks of roving. Now I have to ply it. The next picture is of the yarn I have finished. The brown is destined to be a sweater for me, the white is some corriedale that is going to be a baby blanket and the other 2 I am not sure yet maybe some mittens.

The next 2 pictures are of a scarf that I am making. My first time knitting with beads. I have to say that it is not as bad as I thought it was going to be. The pattern is very simple. One of those mindless knits. Which is nice to do.This week has been great the weather has been wonderful. Now that my daughter is back to school it is very quiet here. I am hoping by the end of the year to be working from home. Will be nice not having to have to travel. Will give me more time to do other things.

Will be planning spinning get togethers with Melissa and Lisa. Lisa has a ridgid hettle loom and is going to help Melissa and I warp ours. That will be one of our gatherings. I am looking forward to getting together. I think that it will help to keep me motivated to keep spinning.

I have started my list for Rhinebeck. So looking forward to going this year. It will be here before we know it..

Will try to post more often. One of my other goals.

Castle on the Hudson

After a lot of research and searching the IloveNY tourism website, I found the day trip that I wanted to take. This is Banner Castle located on an island in the middle of the Hudson River in Newburg NY. Not to far from West point. Actually on the boat tour that I took, we went past Westpoint..
It was very humid and hazy as you can tell from the picture. It was a fun day. They do have tours of the island but unfortunately it had been canceled yesterday. Might be just as well seeing it was so humid. It was a great day trip.

Have not done much on the fiber end as of late but I did go shopping last weekend and I did buy something to challenge me for the summer. I bought a scarf kit that contains beads. Something that I have never done. I am up for the challenge. I will post some pictures of it once I get it started. Might be something to start this afternoon.

Day to Dye for

Couple of weeks ago, Carla and I taught a natural dyeing class. The day started out cold and rainy but did warm up a bit and the sun did come out. Our class was small there was 6 of us. We had great fun. Besides natural dying with madder, onion skins, indego, safflower, we also did some kool aid dying and dying with Wilton cake icing as well.

We had journels for each of the participants to start there own dying journel. I have to say that Carla and I are bad at keeping tract of what we are doing when we are dying.
We do it more for the fun and just like to experiment..

Thank you Barb for hosting our day and Thank you to Marty, Barbs husband for letting us use his shop to play in.

I am slipping!!!!

I can't believe that it has been almost a year since the last time posted. Alot has been going on since then. I have a new job. working fulltime. Makes it hard to find time to blog.
I have been knitting alittle. I did make an alpaca hat from yarn that I spun for my sister in law for christmas. It turned out really cute. I even had enough yarn left over to make a pair of fingerless gloves. Still working on my X&O vest. Keep starting little projects inbetween. I also just started a clapotis out of fiber that I purchased from Adams farm. It has been spun for a while just waiting for the right project to come along. I love the colors. Has all the great fall colors. It reminded me of the fall leaves with a bite of angelena to give it some sparkle.

I appologize for not having pictures, but once again I am having computer issues and am unable to load pics to this computer. But I do promise that I will get pics on as soon as I am capable.