Wool, Wool, Everywhere

Handspun and off the long sitting bobbins,

Spun from a fleece brought back from the Winter Wool Workshop last year.

plied and on the homemade cheapo niddy noddy,

It is my best effort yet, but I will keep working to get a little more consistency in my yarn.

just completed and hanging out on the fence,

 

drying after a nice soak and ready for knitting,

 

and my first homegrown fleeces on the skirting table.

Hassie

More on that undertaking later.

Somewhere in all that I darned a few socks and swatched for a secret project.

I have just been in fiber heaven all day!

 

Wool, Wool Everywhere

Practicing, practicing spinning with some years-old roving,

so I will be rightly prepared when this beautiful fleece I brought back with me from Kentucky

is ready for the wheel.

Help from a friend and my mother last week. They both enjoyed playing with Freckles the Fleece

Getting a longtime WIP off the needles.

In between washing that fleece for the next step,

I wound up some cashmere I splurged on

The view out my crafty room is always nice no matter what the weather. 

and started a very special project.

It's cold and rainy here in the Shenandoah Valley on this first day of spring.

I really don't seem to mind.

Soon the outside gardens and barn will need much attention, and the wheel and needles will be still.

One last day by the fire surrounded by wool is quite nice.

~Joan