Southern by choice
Herd Master
Very cool! Now what about spinning????
Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival
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Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Haha, well spinning is tricky. You have to try it to figure it out. It took me a while to get it down, now I can actually make yarn! It's a very time consuming process. I just barely have the time tosit down and spin a whole skein of yarn. It takes me months! A few minutes at a time...ha ha.
Here's the wheel I have, which is portable and folds up so you can carry it with you:
http://www.woolery.com/store/pc/Kromski-Sonata-c133.htm
My advice is to see if there is a spinners guild in your area, or if there is any kind of fiber festival you can see it happening first hand. It's hard to explain how it works, you have to see it in action.
Now wool, and what kind of sheep to get, that's a WHOLE nother story!
Here's the wheel I have, which is portable and folds up so you can carry it with you:
http://www.woolery.com/store/pc/Kromski-Sonata-c133.htm
My advice is to see if there is a spinners guild in your area, or if there is any kind of fiber festival you can see it happening first hand. It's hard to explain how it works, you have to see it in action.
Now wool, and what kind of sheep to get, that's a WHOLE nother story!
Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
That is so exciting!! It is just so cool that you have that kind of talent. SO I am sure I missed this, but how do you and Bon know each other?
Southern by choice
Herd Master
This is so cool! one of my sons is going to a woodwrights school, he is very gifted. One of the classes offered has the Swift/Skeinwinder as the project! The school uses only hand tools no electric anything. I wonder if he could make a wheel too! I know it would end up costing way more than what's listed on the site :/ but it would be a great project! Seeing as how we don't have any sheep he could take as long as needed! 
I will take your advice and start looking around! I know NOTHING about sheep, but I can shear them. 
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Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Hey Pearce, Bon is my SISTER 
We are best friends and we talk to each other EVERY day! We realized yesterday was the one year anniversary of my mom's passing 
We were glad we were together.
Southern, ohhh a skein winder sounds like a fun project for woodworking! I can't imagine how difficult a spinning wheel would be, but hey they made them from scratch in the olden days, that's for sure! I'm sure it could be done and would be a challenging project
We are best friends and we talk to each other EVERY day! We realized yesterday was the one year anniversary of my mom's passing We were glad we were together.Southern, ohhh a skein winder sounds like a fun project for woodworking! I can't imagine how difficult a spinning wheel would be, but hey they made them from scratch in the olden days, that's for sure! I'm sure it could be done and would be a challenging project
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Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Well, busy wooly week. And daylight savings time really screwed me up and I have less time in the morning now to blog before the sun comes up and I have to go let the chickens out!
WOOL and SOCIAL AFFAIRS
I've been working on a wool felted Santa, he is an antique Victorian Santa and he looks great. I can't wait to post a picture when he's done. I'll put him up for sale on my etsy store. Which speaking of etsy, I sold a felted ferret this week from my etsy store!
I've also made some new batts with my drum carder and put them up for sale. Fun!
Thursday I went to my spinner's group. That's always fun. I worked on spinning some dark brown Harlequin wool I had that I carded with glitzy mylar strands. It looks really pretty when spun. On Wednesday I went to a luncheon up in my old neck of the woods with my Catholic Church lady friends. It was a thank you luncheon for everybody who helped with their Christmas Mart last year. Let me tell you how much fun I have helping make things for the Christmas Mart. First of all, I'm not Catholic, I don't even go to church, but I LOVE these ladies! They are so sweet and fun and nice. Every year I go to the church and help them make and decorate real wreaths. When you walk in, they have everything set up like Santa's Workshop. I kid you not, for a creative person like myself, it is the FUNNEST thing ever! It's like walking into a Micheal's store and getting to use whatever you want to decorate a wreath. They have everything set up on long tables. Berries and pine cones, and big bows, and bobbles and balls...ohhh it's so cool. Some of the ladies make the wreath forms with fresh greens, then they hand me the wreath and say "go to town."! We also make fresh floral arrangements with fresh greens. Then the last day, whatever is left over, we do a "make and take." Plus they feed you tons. we always have a big breakfast and a big lunch every day. We decorate and eat and sing Christmas Carols all week. It's absolutely my favorite thing to do all year. So that will be the first week of December that we will be making our goodies this year. I can't wait!
PIGS
Well, the piggies are doing pretty well.Of course I am getting attached to them.They are so entertaining to watch. Funny little things! They have gotten better about using their litter box. I've been keeping them locked up in the mud room where their box is more, especially after they eat, and now they are using it regularly. They haven't gone under the kitchen table for several days now.
The outside pig, Taco, however, has been very bad. Since I've been letting him out of his stall more during the day, he has been getting into more trouble! There was a big blue tarp laying on the ground, and he completely tore it to shreds! The last night when I went to go lock up the chickens I noticed the tack room door was left open. Well, I had the alpaca fleece in there wrapped in a sheet, and he had ripped the sheet up and dragged my wool all over the place!
BAD piggy!
FENCE
Well, it's light out already so I have to cut this short, but today Tim and Annie are going to mend fences, literally! Still much to do to repair the fences after the hurricane.
So have a great weekend everyone!
WOOL and SOCIAL AFFAIRS
I've been working on a wool felted Santa, he is an antique Victorian Santa and he looks great. I can't wait to post a picture when he's done. I'll put him up for sale on my etsy store. Which speaking of etsy, I sold a felted ferret this week from my etsy store!
I've also made some new batts with my drum carder and put them up for sale. Fun! Thursday I went to my spinner's group. That's always fun. I worked on spinning some dark brown Harlequin wool I had that I carded with glitzy mylar strands. It looks really pretty when spun. On Wednesday I went to a luncheon up in my old neck of the woods with my Catholic Church lady friends. It was a thank you luncheon for everybody who helped with their Christmas Mart last year. Let me tell you how much fun I have helping make things for the Christmas Mart. First of all, I'm not Catholic, I don't even go to church, but I LOVE these ladies! They are so sweet and fun and nice. Every year I go to the church and help them make and decorate real wreaths. When you walk in, they have everything set up like Santa's Workshop. I kid you not, for a creative person like myself, it is the FUNNEST thing ever! It's like walking into a Micheal's store and getting to use whatever you want to decorate a wreath. They have everything set up on long tables. Berries and pine cones, and big bows, and bobbles and balls...ohhh it's so cool. Some of the ladies make the wreath forms with fresh greens, then they hand me the wreath and say "go to town."! We also make fresh floral arrangements with fresh greens. Then the last day, whatever is left over, we do a "make and take." Plus they feed you tons. we always have a big breakfast and a big lunch every day. We decorate and eat and sing Christmas Carols all week. It's absolutely my favorite thing to do all year. So that will be the first week of December that we will be making our goodies this year. I can't wait!
PIGS
Well, the piggies are doing pretty well.Of course I am getting attached to them.They are so entertaining to watch. Funny little things! They have gotten better about using their litter box. I've been keeping them locked up in the mud room where their box is more, especially after they eat, and now they are using it regularly. They haven't gone under the kitchen table for several days now.
The outside pig, Taco, however, has been very bad. Since I've been letting him out of his stall more during the day, he has been getting into more trouble! There was a big blue tarp laying on the ground, and he completely tore it to shreds! The last night when I went to go lock up the chickens I noticed the tack room door was left open. Well, I had the alpaca fleece in there wrapped in a sheet, and he had ripped the sheet up and dragged my wool all over the place!
BAD piggy!FENCE
Well, it's light out already so I have to cut this short, but today Tim and Annie are going to mend fences, literally! Still much to do to repair the fences after the hurricane.
So have a great weekend everyone!
Alice Acres
Ridin' The Range
Your un-church church ladies sound like fun!
I need to head out to work this morning soon...but wanted to say I enjoyed reading that...and sorry your naughty pig got in your fiber...Naughty Pig!!
I need to head out to work this morning soon...but wanted to say I enjoyed reading that...and sorry your naughty pig got in your fiber...Naughty Pig!!
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Bridgemoof
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Happy Monday!
The weather was really nice here this weekend. I think it warmed up into the 60s. We got the fence done across the stream on Saturday morning, so we were able to put the 2 horses back down there. Yay! It's really hard nailing in those hard horse fence boards, just sayin.
Most of the weekend I worked on wool stuff, and regular work stuff. I picked through some cormo wool and washed a bunch of it. I also worked on my Santas, and finished the second one. Tim made some bases from out of the cherry tree that fell down during the hurricane. They worked perfect! The Santas look SO GREAT, if I do say so myself. I'll be posting them on my etsy store today
BEHOLD, the SANTAS!
This morning I have to finish up some work, then it's back to Santa making..Or I am thinking I may do an angel next with real chicken feathers for wings. Coolio!
That's it for now, fellow herd members!
The weather was really nice here this weekend. I think it warmed up into the 60s. We got the fence done across the stream on Saturday morning, so we were able to put the 2 horses back down there. Yay! It's really hard nailing in those hard horse fence boards, just sayin.
Most of the weekend I worked on wool stuff, and regular work stuff. I picked through some cormo wool and washed a bunch of it. I also worked on my Santas, and finished the second one. Tim made some bases from out of the cherry tree that fell down during the hurricane. They worked perfect! The Santas look SO GREAT, if I do say so myself. I'll be posting them on my etsy store today
BEHOLD, the SANTAS!
This morning I have to finish up some work, then it's back to Santa making..Or I am thinking I may do an angel next with real chicken feathers for wings. Coolio!
That's it for now, fellow herd members!
GoatCrazyLady
Ridin' The Range
Nice work. Really love love love 
Southern by choice
Herd Master
That's amazing bridge! How long does one Santa take? 
