2009 is the year of the Natural Fiber.
Now, this may not seem to be all that important, but believe me, for MANY reasons, it is VERY important.

You’ll be hearing about this a lot in 2009!
It’s really expensive to maintain a herd of fiber animals!
B U T- here’s the great news!
You can help support a lovely fiber farm  in a truly concrete way,
AND you get a luscious treasure from your goodness…..
Read all about it at: Hudson Valley Fiber Farm Co-op
Image source: Original drawing by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright and not to be reproduced without permission

Oh wow! here’s a bunch of wonderful!
Michelle Snowdon of Wooldancer creates the most incredible  freeform, wild and woolie magical batts and yarns.
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I have been spinning up a storm this past week…..
Here’s some bombyx silk that I’ve spun up and am spool knitting like mad with to finish a project for workshops I am teaching in September.
Spin spin spool spool….
spin some more
spool some more…..
(As I get  things completed, I’ll upload pics. Right now, there’s a million half done projects all in a flurry of studio whirling!)
Image source: Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright

Ooooooooooh……….. if you are a fan of luscious, delicious, wonderful,gorgeous rovings, check out Deb’s spectacular woolies over at Dudley Spinner!

I am so pleased! My new Journey Loom has arrived!

The Journey loom is a lovely small frame/tapesty style loom that was designed by Susan Barrett Merrill. The loom came to her in a dream and she’s been working with her husband to create it in many ways for a number of years.
The first thing that struck me when I put it together was that it looked so much like the wall dollhouses that my dh, Jim, makes me!
The second thing that just blew me out of the water, was reading the chapter in Susan’s book, Zati, The Art of …read more

Some things are just so good, you want to share them.

I’ve posted about support spindles before, but I just have to list them high on my ‘Neato’ list! I love my Royale Hare, and have had it for ages. I am assuming that they still make them, because I found them on the internet, and saw them at the Knit and Crochet show a year or so ago.
I think of it as being the
world’s smallest spinning wheel.
neato? yes.
affiliations? no.