Spinning at the country school
Yesterday morning I packed up my spinning wheel and some fiber and drove a few miles that took me back several decades. I went to the Kragero School to be part of the Community Education class called Life in the Past Lane. It was so fun to see the girls in dresses and bonnets. I talked a little about alpacas and their fiber – showing some samples of fiber and hand spun yarn…
Country School
…but mostly I talked about spinning and knitting and how long it must have taken to make clothes before everything was available at stores. I spent some time spinning and gave many a chance to try spinning. Some caught on quickly, but most were pretty sure they would not have many things to wear if they had to spin and knit just to get a new pair of socks!
Accomplishments on retreat
First – I knit these 2 pair of mittens.
Mittens for charity
They will be finished by another gal in my knitting group. I have a total of 7 pair to turn over to her tomorrow at our monthly meeting.
Last weekend was my spinning guild’s retreat at the Linden Hills mansion. I spun and knit and ate and relaxed. It was awesome. I spun this huge skein from the fiber of Ruby.
Hand spun alpaca yarnThis set was started before the retreat, but I finished the scarf and got the hat to the point of steaming. Brown set of alpaca yarn
After steaming, the hat will get ear flaps added. The mittens need to be felted yet.
Blue set of alpaca yarn
The hat will be an ear flap hat. These mittens will also be felted. These 2 sets are part of a custom order.
Bird nesting material
A suet cage stuffed full of alpaca fiber and alpaca yarn snippets. Ready to give birds the opportunity to have soft warm nests for the babies this spring. $9. Go ahead – spoil your birds!
