The first picture is day 1 and 2, tho some of that was already on the bobbin :P. The 2nd picture is day 3 and 4. I have been spinning about 30 minutes a day, I should be finished with this bobbin and ready to start the 2nd bobbin tomorrow :).
Plenty of warning! I posted this for the bikers in the Tour de France.
Happy Birthday, ie: Independence Day, to the country that I love, the United States of America. Long may our Flag wave!Â
Please continue to pray for Our Heavenly Father’s intervention for the protection of our Country as we work on fixing the things that have gone very wrong, that our freedoms may be preserved.
Below is a link to The United States Army Field Band playing the Star Spangled Banner. Enjoy 🙂
https://youtu.be/DADmZdbQ9x8
This is so pretty and soft, it will be fun to spin for Tour de Fleece. The red eri silk is a peace silk, it is interesting to learn about reg silk and peace silk and why it’s called peace silk (they are two different types of moths). First I will need to finish the fiber I have on my Polonaise wheel, a BFL-Corriedale cross 64%, Alpaca 27% and Sari Silk waste 9%, You can see it on my RAGBRI spin. It’s really very pretty and it’s been sitting on my wheel being neglected for too long!!!
Cooking what??
The mom is named Dori. She’s a first time mom and had this beautiful 18 lb cria, who was born today at 12:30pm. No name yet, but her dad is Charlie Brown, hehe, he’s the same color brown as this little one is, but she is his first daughter, he has thrown 3 males (also his color). Tim and Ev were very happy to have a little female this time. :). The cria that was born in May was a male they named Oreo because he was black with a white face. Boots (Oreo’s mom, is a black female with with white on the lower part of her front legs, thus her name lol) was brought into the herd last year and was already pregnant (we didn’t know) so we don’t know who the father was. All the males and females on that farm were registered and there’s no genetics to our herd, so having a new black male alpaca is a plus :). Only Izabella is left to have her cria but she’s not due until September, bless her heart having to carry through the hot summer.
I’ve been using my wool combs on the 2nds from Leah (a year old cria). This fleece is soooo soft, but dirty and the combs are doing a good job helping to take out the hay pieces. I’m washing after combing instead of before because her fiber is so soft that the hay just sticks to it and I figured that washing it first would just dig it deeper in. I’ll show a picture when I get enough to card into a batt. It’s a slow process but worth it to save this luxury fiber. 🙂
I got this one from Etsy because I wanted a new one to wear this year, it is my 4th one and I liked having the year on it. Fiber Love Diary said she will have a tee this year, so I will buy one of hers, when I get paid next month, so I get two this year. I wanted to make sure I had one to start the Tour de Fleece with. The Tour de France is from July 5th through July 27th, so I will get to wear 2 different tee’s this year!!
Well I might have accidentally ordered a skein of yarn from an Indy (spelling?) dyer on YouTube that I follow, Awenydd Yarn and Fiber, I linked her shop, you can look for her on YouTube under that name. She does a Monday podcast reworking some of her older color ways while you watch her dye, a Wednesday podcast while you watch her dye from a random selection of colors of dyes from a random generator, it’s fun, and on Fridays she talks about her works in progress etc. This was one of her reworks of an older color way, she did last week, to jazz it up a bit. I fell in love with it, I had enough extra money and ordered it. She got it right out to me and she sent me that beautiful crystal in a heart cage progress keeper as a thank you, so pretty. I’m thinking about asking her to dye up a skein of just the blue color as a tonal next month. I thought it would make a nice shawl knitting 6 rows of the blue and 3 or of the American Woman rows throughout the shawl. What do you think? I think the blue would give it some balance and depth as a shawl, beginning and ending with the blue, and the brighter colors would make it pop a bit adding excitement and the blue in the brighter colors would pull the two together :). If I was a sock knitter I would just knit socks for July, but I’m not, so there’s that :P. She has knit samples with the skeins so you can see what the yarn works up as.
Hoping everyone is fine and not suffering with the heat. We are having thunderstorms today and tomorrow, and will be in the mid 90’s on Saturday, Sunday and next Monday, with sweltering humidity, which they said would make it feel like the low 100’s, :(. This is our late July and August weather, way too soon!!! Thank goodness for air conditioning!!!
HAHA, wonder if the person who put that up knew what the initials for Land O Lakes stood for when you text it, and just had a sense of humor :).
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