Saturday, February 21, 2009Meet April, the jacob sheep. We visited the fiber faire in Weaverville today. It was not a large affair, as you might guess. Kinko, a local spinner, was there with her wheel and lots of yarn. She also had her powered carder and was demoing that. Met a gentelman who showed me the hat he'd knit with some of Kino's yarn He told me he'd added some angora to make the wool softer on his bald head!  A Lewiston place called Clearwater Ranch had yarn and fiber-they also had a couple of Jacob sheep there... you see April above. There was assorted needle work, crafts for kids to do, some stuff about growing native plants and willow basketry, etc. A boy about 7-8 years old was weaving on a kids loom and doing well at it. There was a lady with a nice display of macramé jewelry and little foam-pin looms with thread tapestry projects going with some beading. It was small but there was quite a crowd of people. Nicely done. They had the start of a willow hut... the kind where you plant the willow in the ground, and some willow fences. The organizer of the event was learning to make willow baskets. I've been invited to bring the looms to the next event. We only just found out about this in the paper yesterday or I could have joined them this time. I was glad to see such a nice turn out, tho.
posted @ 03:48 PM PST [link] Thursday, February 19, 2009woven jacket. I am very happy with the way this one turned out! 
posted @ 10:33 AM PST [link] Wednesday, February 18, 2009Ta-Da! Got the new carpet in the bedroom and have things put back together... mostly. Now I have to get the living room back together. I think it really looks nice. It's painted my favorite green and I hung my big picture over the bed. Yes, it's a copy of Georgia O'Keefe's Lawrence Tree, that I painted for a long ago Artist Reception we did with the kids at school when I worked there. It is also one of my fav's. Meantime, I just have to sew the pocket on my woven sweater and I can post a picture of that here. But I need to get prettied up so I can get a picture of it on, too. (That could take some time!  )The sun came out to day. Briefly, it's true, but it was nice to know it's still up there. I hear a new storm is due in on Saturday... posted @ 04:44 PM PST [link] Sunday, February 15, 2009Socks for Daughter Karen doesn't like her toes covered. Strange but true and apparently she isn't the only one. But I knitted her a pair of toe-less socks once and now she says she needs a new pair so I whipped these out with some Bernat baby yarn I had on hand. Kind of cute, tho one ends with pink and the other doesn't. Oh well!  Didn't take long to make. I may make her another pair with some sock yarn just in case she wants to wear them with her toe-less shoes! We have a couple feet of new snow and now it's slushing on it. That's okay. Messy but it has already melted some of the snow. We need the water but it's kind if like being on a diet... You like looking thinner but getting there isn't much fun! Getting our lake filled again isn't much fun, either. Involves way too much mud... But I'm not complaining, you know! 
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