Nephew's birthday

Oh, I forgot to show you the pictures of my nephew's sweater! It's quite big on him, but he'll grow into it. And you can tell he's quite sleepy in the pictures. Long day for him.

Dog hair pros and cons

I finally started carding and spinning my dog's fur. It's a little easier than I thought, but there are definitely pros and cons to dog fur than wool.

Pros: Dog hair is easy to clean. Not as dirty as sheep.
It is easy to join. It catches fast and easy
It's free! It's my dog and I don't have to pay for it.
It dries fast.

Cons: It sheds like crazy!
It's a little hard to draft
It's clumpy, not like sheep


I really love spinning it. I can't wait to spin up more. The yarn I'm making is turning out great and I will be posting pictures as soon as it's done. I hope to spin dog hair for a other people soon!

Dog fur

Our dog was clipped today and now I have dog fur!!!! I'm in the process of washing it right now. I really hope it spins up nicely. A while back, I bought some fine hand carders for the dog fur so I can card it, so I'm all prepared to spin Cleo's fur. If it doesn't spin on its own I can blend it with wool. There's a lot more fur that I realized, but that's a good thing. It's not as clumpy as I thought it would be and that's a good thing too. I'm sure it'll spin up nicely. Now, I'm just trying to get it where it doesn't smell like dog.

I'm watching CNN and they are saying the rising price of food is caused by Ethanol production.

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Craft Fair

I would like to do a craft fair here. There isn't much opportunity for crafty people like myself to display my work in NW Ohio. There's art fairs, but several of them snub their noses at fiber arts. The closest alternative craft fair around is the Detroit Urban Craft Fair, but I would like something close by and run on alterna-crafters terms. Does anyone use the term alterna anymore, or am I showing I'm not hip anymore??? Anyways, I hope to get some interested people and go from there.

I just purchased the first Barbara Walker knitting pattern book from half.com. I opted to purchase the vintage version instead of the new version because I really like vintage books. There's history there in vintage books and it's fun to have an original copy!

My nephew's first birthday is today and his party's on Sunday, so I get to give him his cardigan that I made. I have to remember my camera so I can take pictures of him wearing it! I'm sure it'll be so cute. And the only time in his life where he can wear a bright yellow cabled cardigan....

Swimming

I have a lot of yarn. I really do. I was now looking for my light box to make my Nobu bag and I kept putting skeins in piles and I realized I need to get rid of a lot of yarn. I'm running out of room. Should I do a destash sale? Should I just use it all and make a bunch of afghans? (I have a LOT of acrylic yarn that I can't really do anything else with) One of these days, I'll have to sort through what I want and what I don't want and maybe do a destash sale. I'm buying more and more fiber, I need to make room for that as well. I'm just looking at this pile, trying to find a manageable solution to this problem of little room. See, I didn't say too much yarn :) Well, in the mean time, I'll just have to look at my stash in disbelief of how much yarn I have and how little room.

Fiber Fiend

So, I just bought a ton of fiber on Etsy, and I don't really need it. I bought some more superwash, I bought some bamboo and some cotton roving. I haven't spun cotton and I'm eager to try. I have so much fiber, it's ridiculous! It'll keep me busy for a while! I finished dying the yarn for my Nobu bag (my kitty) and now all I need to do is find a picture to pixelate and turn into a fair isle pattern. A lot like the Corinne Burns bag I have posted on here, but it'll be my cat. Oh, and I'm offering FREE FIRST CLASS SHIPPING from now until May 2, my birthday, so take advantage!

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