Anna on June 14th, 2009

I knew there was a need for a consistency before. It’s even more obvious to me now. Every night it’s the same thing: How do I spend my time? Do I knit? Spin? Card? Dye? All of the above? I need to create an evening schedule for myself, so that I [...]

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Anna on May 14th, 2009

So I bought some raw wool from Homestead Wool & Gift Farm.  My wool came from an Icelandic/Merino mix, Dorsey.

Exciting! I read up a lot on scouring (again, Aija’s article helped a lot), but I wasn’t confident about it. Prepped my hot hot water with just a bit of Dawn. In went the [...]

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Anna on May 7th, 2009

I went to a fiber festival a couple of weeks ago.  While I was there I purchased some raw alpaca.  I finally got around to washing it this week.

I was really worried about felting it! But everything turned out alright. In fact, I got brave & figured, as long as it’s already wet, I [...]

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Anna on May 6th, 2009

I really wanted to blog my entire fiber experience.  Really!  But I have a confession to make.  I started becoming fiber-enchanted in January sometime.  It is now May, and truthfully, my fiber experience has moved so fast, I have not been able to keep up with it.  I started crocheting, moved quickly into knitting and [...]

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Anna on March 6th, 2009

Seeing that hat was love at first site.

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