Our "Spinners' Flock" meeting on Saturday saw 50+ sellers organizing for next week's "Winter Fleece Fair" in Chelsea, Michigan. On Sat. the 17th, we'll offer fleeces, roving, handspun yarns, spinning/weaving/felting/knitting/crochet equipment, books, patterns, and just about anything a fiber freak could desire at a sale running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the cafeteria/assembly room of Beach Middle School.
In those short hours, the group will take in about $30,000; hundreds of knitters, spinners, and other fiber artists will leave with an unbelievable array of supplies and finished items. If there are any Midwest knitters out there, I'd urge you to attend. It's truly a one-of-a-kind experience. People come from surrounding states and Canada to shop!
I finished the fingerless gauntlets for my SIL. I hope to have a picture of them here, soon. Now I'm tempted to start some socks for me in some wonderful Bluefaced Leicester space-dyed yarn, running a lace weight kid mohair/silk thread with it for added strength, softness, and warmth. I'm feeling greedy: These might be for me!
The sheep are browsing the yard, nibbling on pine needles and dried grass along the fencelines. The 36 that are here (another 40 are at my friend Ron's farm), are now getting 150 lbs of grain every other day.
Even though the temperature is rising, the wind is also. It feels just as cold out there today as when it was below zero! Or maybe it's my mind playing tricks on me.
Hope to have some links up here soon, too.
TTFN.
3 comments:
We have sheep in this town and they are given rights by the government. You have to yield to sheep passing across the street and in the street. They even take them to public land to graze. So you have any dogs? You must.
I have working Border collies (more to come in remembrance of Craig, my buddy that we helped to a better place today at age 15). I also have Great Pyrenees who live with the sheep to protect them from coyotes and stray dogs.
And, being a dog lover, I have two ex-racing greyhounds who are ornamental couch potatoes and who now stalk sheep if they can't get a Border collie to run in circles around the two-acre house yard.
We don't have any pets but I may jsut get something going on that count. My daughter does rescue Boxer dogs and her in laws have a former racing (loser) greyhound. He has made a circle path in their backyard.
RIP Craig.......
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