Category Archives: spinning

Massachusetts Sheep and Wool Festival

Posted on May 25, 2008 by karen

  Today, a Sunday, (no surprise, a blog day), I drove up northward to attend the Mass Sheep and Wool Festival, and had a short but great time. I drove the back roads there, as the crow flies, and it … Continue reading →

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Spring has definitely sprung

Posted on April 20, 2008 by karen

  Another Sunday, another blog post day. I have been planting new fruit trees; trimming rampant vines and killer invasive roses, starting veggies, potting up things for the garden club sale, and potting up other things for the forest garden … Continue reading →

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Stay at home Sunday

Posted on February 10, 2008 by karen

It’s been mostly cold, snowy, and blowing today. There was a patch of sunshine during the afternnon, and I sat in the big dining room window in the warm rays and spun some llama roving I got last fall at … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2008 by karen

I love the new beginning feeling that comes with the 1/1 date. I have made some sweeping resolutions; one of which is to get outside more: (starting tomorrow!) (I am nothing if not a procrastinator!) I am up for changes … Continue reading →

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Rhinebeck workshop and colored leaves

Posted on October 23, 2007 by karen

This is my backyard view, this afternoon. A storm around us; overcast; but still so much green for the last bit of October. (I need to trim some of these shrubs so as to not lose my view of the … Continue reading →

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Rhinebeck: Sunday, and spinning wheels

Posted on October 21, 2007 by karen

I returned today, armed with some more cash, but resisted these oh-so-clever wheels, by The Merlin Tree, so easy to carry, so durable, so cute! I didn’t take his card, but Saturday he remarked how he had the least expensive … Continue reading →

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Ravelry

Posted on August 21, 2007 by karen

I’m tired of Ravelry and I haven’t even been invited yet. 4798 to go. Soon, maybe next week, they’ll get their hoity-toity servers up and then I’ll get in, or maybe the next week, or maybe it’ll be just whenever … Continue reading →

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Dyeing my spinning

Posted on July 17, 2007 by karen

I have a split personality: I am trying to spin and knit for ‘A journey to a shawl’, and I am trying to do the mystery stole#3. I dyed my NZ Romney a week ago Sunday with the butternuts and … Continue reading →

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Romney Roving

Posted on June 23, 2007 by karen

This is the yarn I spun last night from the NZ Romney top I got from RH Lindsay’s, still some overspun squiggles and some underspun fluffs— but it went smoothly and I think I’m getting the tension better, at least … Continue reading →

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Where this comes from…

Posted on June 13, 2007 by karen

This is my first blog post — I hope it will not also be the last! The ‘Foothills’ are nestled into the Berkshires, the large mountains in SW Massachusetts; large only to those of us who live here, I suppose. … Continue reading →

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