All of the Christmas knitting is done and wrapped!! Victory is mine!

O man!  Today we saw a sheep shearing!  It was awesome.  It was actually like a mile and a half from my house.  The farm is called Sheepie Dreams Organic Farm.  They were shearing and selling wool, honey, and beeswax salve. They don't seem to have a website.  

On to the shearing. First they would grab a sheep by one of the back legs and pull it towards them.  The sheep struggled a bit as it hopped towards the shearer but once they were in position, they seemed resigned and sat there fairly patiently while being sheared.  They really lost an amazing amount of mass from the shearing.  Hedgerose will post pictures when she gets home.  

Then we went to Luminous Threads, a yarn store in Felton,  at the recommendation of the farm owner, who is friends with the owner.  It was a very nice store.  It wasn't just yarn, there was also cloth and buttons and such.  There were beautiful quilts on the walls and a wonderful display in the window.  The owner was very nice and chatted with us about all the things that we do and were planning to do.  We actually saw her briefly at the sheeping, so we talked about that too.  

On the way home, there was a cop following us with its lights flashing. We pulled over and it passed us and then about a mile later we passed a horse trailer that had veered off of the road.  We thought that a woman stopping traffic was trying to get a ride to the town, so we turn around and ended stuck for about half an hour.  The horses were fine as far as we could see and Hedgerose and I discussed how we could expand our etsy store and eventually getting some sort of physical location or something.  Very far in the future, with me still in school and the economy the way it is, in addition to Code Monkey discussing possibly moving to Seattle in around 5 years.  Hedgerose wants to make sure that we are legally sound, with permits and such as well.  Getting fancy.   However, for the time being, I'm going to work on Christmas knitting and finish all my school work.  

Update of Random

Well, it's back to school for me! Classes started again today after a week of workless bliss, during which I did a lot of paper crafts (portfolio! tiny boxes! books! ...ADVENT CALENDAR OF DOOOM-- see more below), but no fiber. Oh, wait, that's a total lie-- I finished one of the kid socks that I was working on and started the second. Once more, I promise pictures; this time, I actually know where my digital camera is! I'll see if I have time tonight.

A few weeks ago, my friend Laurel semi-commissioned me to spin her a skein of black and green yarn, which should get done soon: I have to dye and spin it, so we'll see how it goes.

(ACoD: my mom had the idea of making a 3-D advent calendar for this year, so we are in the process of making it. We're making it essentially the same way you'd make a jewelry box insert, with lots of small sections forming one big box. It's both insane and awesome; this one will be *sure* to get pictures, as I got my dad to take pictures while we were working. It's about 13x19; the smallest boxes will probably end up being about 1.5x1.5, and the largest about 3x3. I can't *wait* to finish it!)

How cool is this.  http://wollymanor.com/adopt.html  It is like a CSA but for wool!  You adopt a sheep at the beginning of the year and get a picture of it and letters "from" it and all and then at the end of the year, they shear the sheep and wash the fleece and mail it to you.  How awesome!

Sorry it has been so long since we posted anything.  Things have been boring on the Fiber Front because they have picked up in the Real World.  I got an internship at a small parochial school in Azusa, about 350 miles south of Santa Cruz, so I have been both without the time or the fiber to spin or knit.  My semester is winding to a close as well, so there is a lot of homeworking happening.  I did bring some Christmas Knitting with me so there is some inching foreword.  I'm working on Jaywalkers for my cousin.  

I finish this internship after Thanksgiving and then Hedgerose and I plan to get together and take a trip to the Fiber Front.  

Pennies

So, turns out using pennies for dyeing is a bad idea.  The copper coil is coming along very nicely, it is a light shade of blue green.  I think I will let it sit a little longer to get darker.  however, the pennies just made the vinegar really really dirty and then disintegrated.  No, really. Like some of them are just a little hollow circle and some just crumble into little bits upon being touched.  Kinda cool really.  But not very useful for yarn.

Craft Day

Today we had a crafting party!

Hedgerose and some other friends came over and we watched movies and chatted and worked on our crafts.

Hedgerose and I spun in the morning and dyed in the afternoon.  We also had people there sewing, and crocheting, and drawing.


   Kathleen took lots of pictures for us!  Therefore there is also a massive update on our Etsy store.  We now actually sell yarn, imagine that.