The sounds of lawnmowers in the neighbors yards were loud this morning.  Robb says the only difference in those guys and him are their wives.  How so?  I asked.  He said they have wives that wake them up at the butt crack of dawn on a hot summer day to mow the yard.  He has a wife that wakes him up at the butt crack of dawn to stay in bed until ( Read more... )

I have been spinning like a top lately.  Here is the results of my efforts.

This is the mauvey purple - that's the best I can describe it.


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I've spun a bunch of yarn up, two balls of some nice mauvey purple and now working on a mix of some merino/tencel blend in the same shades with darker blue, light blue, some yellow and green (not much) and what looks like silver sometimes and gold in other lights, but it's sparkley., with the turquoise peacock blue and I'm thinking this will ( Read more... )

Well, the spider above the door finally crawled away to die sometime the first week of November, coinciding with the arrival of a borrowed single treadle spinning wheel, which I did not have much luck with by the way.  But...here is what the yarn looks like from the fleecy I bought.  Keep in mind I washed, combed, drafted and spun this yarn myself ( Read more... )