TDF

Well, such is the end of TDF. I won a really cool shirt from Wonder why gal. Girls camp in the middle threw me for a loop and i took a week just to get back on track. In the end i didn't spin as much Wookie as i would have liked, but i did make a dent and also found that i like it blended with a fleece that i purchased at the Shenandoah valley fiber fest. Still slapping myself for not getting the venders name or the type of fleece. More care this year.

TDF

You may ask what is TDF ? I mean in this world of blogging, texting, and other achranms why would i be blogging about TDF?
TOUR DE FLEECE of coarse!
What else would Mamma LLama blog about? I am so excited to get motivation and friendship out of spinning. We start Sunday, July 2 just like the bikers. I have an entire Alpaca fleece to spin, and since i am on Team Wonder, the Alpaca loving team what a better time to get that puppy spun, uh i mean that 'paca spun. LOL No, it is not a Wookie!

Morning Song

The day breaks cool and refreshing after day(s) of rain.

As i let the minture sheep, aka my dog out for her morning ritual, i hear the birds, beautiful birds.

Suddenly gray skies and wet, wet, wet don't seem so bad.

Scarfing

Spring, rain need i say more?

It has been positively dreary here the last couple of days.

I finally got the nerve to try knitting again, and if i do say so myself i did quite well. I found out that for being predominantly left-handed, i knit right handed. No wonder i struggled trying to turn it around! So i took my first handspun, yeah I know, 20+ years laying around.

Well it took weeks but now i have a scarf! Just in time for....spring!


I am making progress on my 50 list, i promise! Less than three weeks left!

Silk Part Deux

So onward through the silk experience! Today we have rods, bells and cocoons! Oh my!

Silk Rods

Silk Bell



Cocoons!

After trying to spin the silk rods i here by declare that they aren't worth the time or the money spent on them! The silk bell was interesting to spin kind of like a cob web. The silk cocoons were just cool to say "yup, i did it". Plus they have the grossest little worm that you have to extract.



And...this is what i spun from the silk bell and the cocoons, not much, but it was fun!

Thank you Mr. Webster!

This is in response to my last post. Which, given the responses on FB, this definition would duly apply. No comment on the last definition.

wool·ly also wool·y (wŏŏl'ē) Pronunciation Key adj. 1. Relating to, consisting of, or covered with wool. 2. Resembling wool. 3. Lacking sharp detail or clarity: woolly television reception. 4. Mentally or intellectually disorganized or unclear: woolly thinking.

Purple armpit

Ok, funny and yet embarrassing story. I was sitting in a meeting this morning with two women. I was explaining something when i lifted my arms over my head, both of them burst out laughing.
" You have something purple in your armpit!" one of them exclaimed. Lifting my arm up again and peeking tentatively i noticed a purple haze. On closer examination i found it to be a piece of purple mohair that i was spinning last night. How i love fiber! i don't care if it is all over me!