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We have had 3 great reviews this week!!!! Hand spun Yarn /Fiber Review- The More, The Merrier Contest to win Spinning fiber – ends 4/15/13 Yarn Review- Made By Renee You can enter the yarn giveaway on the same page it ends 4/7/13. Spinning Class Review- Craft Cravings Share and Enjoy:
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I really wanted to drop kick or whitewash Murphy’s ass today!!! Wanna get your fibery fix sign up for the RSS feed on the upper right hand side of this post! Share and Enjoy:
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Dwayne and I spent most of Saturday wrangling goats into the stand and combing cashmere!!!! Most of the goats were already shedding their coats except for Serena ….I think she will be ready in a about a week!!!!! We were able to get 3 out of 4 goats […]
I was hoping to work on my U-neck School Girl Vest. However, events had left it abandoned, languishing on the table waiting for me. The goats are losing their coats so I have to hoard the cashmere before they rub it all off on the fencing. I planned to start yesterday. I bundled up and headed out to the barn. […]
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I didn’t get my Back-To-School U-neck Vest done as quickly as I hoped. I found that friends visiting + a few drinks = having to rip back some. However I’m not too upset about because I think I will probably have it done by Wednesday or Thursday. My next project is to finish my Clarus. […]
Karakul have very distinctly colored fleeces. The lambs are born black with wavy curls and as they grow the curls open and the color begins to lighten. There is amazingly wide range of shades going form black, silvery blue grays, to golden tan,red-browns, white with other colors and pure white. Interestingly […]
The Karakul may be the oldest breed of domesticated sheep. Archeological evidence indicates the existence of the Persian lambskin as early as 1400 B.C. and carvings of a distinct Karakul type have been found on ancient Babylonian temples. Although known as the “fur” sheep, the Karakul provided more than the beautifully patterned silky […]
Saturday was my birthday. The big 4-o. He told me to take saturday off. The first place he took me was a ….a new LYS called The Yarn Barn in Bangor, Me. This actually is an amazing feat, since we don’t have many options ( we had only 2 and one had left last year). […]
