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Fiber Adventures

I have been doing some fiber activities.  Louet linen crochet market bag.  This is a very cool market bag it has it's own storage bag.

Handspun and dyed Merino scarves for my nieces and nephews

Knitting post

It has been a long time since I have posted knitting and woolly things, which is why I started this blog.  life has just taken an unexpected turn.  I have spent many hours wondering how I or We should live with such a diagnosis as cancer.  Well most of the time we just try to live and be thankful that the cancer had not spread like it does in so many people, we got a wonderful compassionate Dr and he was able to remove all the cancer. So this brings me to knitting I have continued to spin, knit, and dye some.  I got 30 lbs of wool back in pin draft form from Morro Fleece Works  It is beautiful!!! I have taught myself to knit socks on two circular needles and am working on the Magic loop next.  This image is of a sock on two circulars.  It is hand spun Romney wool  warped on a Susan Forsyth self stripping board then dyed.  I wanted the ruffle effect at the top of the cuff so I knitted 3 rounds of knit before the k2 p2.

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Silk + Crochet = Generations Shawl from Spring 2007 Spinoff

                            GENERATIONS

Generations  was crochet with leftover bits and piece's of hand spun and dyed silk.  I have had lot's of time on my hands waiting in hospitals and Dr.  offices.  I have made use of some of the time.  The scarf was knit and knit again.  I just could not come up with a good pattern that displayed the colors of the silk.  So I did flowers and vintage mother of pearl buttons as accents.

This is what my daughter made

My Daughter and I made the trip to B.S.G ths summer before she started college. She picked out this great lincloin corridale pin draft from crown mountain farm .  Found a pattern in my stash of Barbra Walker books then spun and plyed a very thick novelty yarn and then she knit this while being bored in her dorm because she is not 21 living in the Napa Valley.

john john's rockin socks

I finally finished these.   

Flower Basket Shawl

Flower Basket Shawl
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I have been slowly making progress on this flower basket. I am using some silk from the weaving days it has a lot of texture but still seems to look nice in this pattern. I resorted to this lace pattern after trying something beyond my attention span with 5 children who are NEEDY, even if one only come home on the weekends and not always.

sea foam scarf

sea foam scarf
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Here is some "KNITTING"

My creation
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1. sea foam knitted scarf, 2. wellington the merino, 3. aslan, 4. romney socks
The scarf is some handspun dyed romney and hand spun dyed silk plied together. There was a large amount of this yarn so the ruffle scarf seemed a good option. I finished the handspun hand dyed romney socks. The stripes were a bit off but they were my first try at self stripping yarn dying.

Crochet Silk Bell

crochet silk bell
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This is a scarf I started at the beginning of spring for my daughter, she chose the colors and I dyed and spun the silk bells. I just finished the fringe. Also is a Romney hive of pin draft and sock yarn  spun and dyed by me.  The beautiful fleece is a  Romney fleece with a lock washed this is a very clean fleece that was from a coated animal.  The fleece came from Black Sheep Gathering and was a award winning fleece from Mendenhall  Wool Ranch .  I just love looking at this fleece my daughter fought down the crowd of women and nabbed this fleece, we have our own wool but I think she had fun just trying to obtain the fleece.  I was watching the sheep show and she was bored so she went for the entertainment.