It’s here!
Cheryl sent me a box of goodies from Alaska and it is finally here!
Sale!
Skein Lane is having a sale. Seems like a pretty good one too.
Washing the fleece
Since I haven’t uploaded any pictures of us carding, i thought i might explain how we washed our wensleydale-cross fleece. I have had experience washing only 2 fleeces before, with my friend Gen. The first was Speckles. Speckles was some kind of targhee blend that had really crimpy (frizzy) wool. …
One night of carding complete.
I think that everyone got a good start on developing their carding callouses last night. There was carding from about 6-11 pm. i think that the quality of the rolags may have peaked at about 9 p.m., but we will see how things go tonight. Here is a list of …
Dirty Fleece
Hooray! The fleece that we need to prepare for the pre-knit portion of our shawl arrived! Here is a crappy camera-phone picture of the filthy wensleydale-cross lamb fleece. Eeew. It supposed to be white… Gen and I (mostly Gen) washed it up at my old apartment on sunday and it …
shawl progress
The pattern is actually called a poncho but I am officially never calling that because i hate ponchos.