The crocuses are up, the daffodils want to be blooming, and the sun is out so that must mean I have to do yardwork. I'd rather be knitting or spinning, but I suppose that the winter trash must be removed if I want to look at those spring and summer flowers. Ah well....
Ran a few more colors through the carder this morning in the hopes that I can finish all the Posy Toes colorways, photo them and have them up on Etsy by Tuesday at the latest. These batts take quite a while to produce as I run them through the carder 3 times before I consider them ready to spin. That's a lot of arm-work! But I'm having such a good time playing with the colors, it's like having a box of 64 crayons. One of my fondest memories is the first day of school--really first day, like the first day of first grade--when I went to my desk and there was a box of brand new, never-used crayons on my desk. They smelled sooo good! Why don't crayons smell like that anymore, I wonder? Have they changed the formula?
Anyway, I'm heading outside to clear away old leaves and fallen branches. Perhaps I'll have a look at those seed catalogs tonight and order some perennials, maybe some bittersweet to climb on a trellis at the garage.
2 comments:
Your batts are stunning. What type of carder do you use?
Thank you, ma'am. I use a Strauch carder. Which is a good opening for a blog post today......
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