Recently I have been working on several new patterns as well as cleaning up and removing some of my earlier designs.  It always amazes me how much we change over the years in what we consider as good one year and not so great the next.

I recently added my mystery knit alongs to Ravelry.   This is an amazing knitting website as well as one for any of the fiber arts.  By selling the mystery pattern on Ravelry, I have had many from other countries join in on the fun.  

Well I really need to get back to work on the "bag" mystery design or it won't be ready in time.

Design challenge for the day:  Look around you, where ever you are at the moment you are reading this and find one object to focus on for a few minutes.  Now either mentally, verbally or on paper, try to describe it as if you had never seen it before and you are sending a report to someone else who has never seen the object either.   If possible take it a step further and try to imagine what humans actually use the object for.   Have fun.

A visit to Prescott

Today I escaped the heat, (yes Phoenix is getting warm enough for me to be hot), and went north to Prescott. The mountains are just beginning their spring weather and some plants are starting to enjoy the spring and reward us with the beginnings of their blooms.

On this nice windy day, we, Fred and I took a bit of a time to explore The Arizona Fiber Mill. I have seen fiber mills before, but never in Arizona. What was especially exciting for me was the spinning machine. I was fortunate enough to be able to fondle a run of beautiful dark brown alpaca yarn. Too bad it was a customers alpaca that had just been completed or I would have had to have added it to my stash.

If you are in need of having fiber processed for hand spinning, felting or yarn made from your own fiber, contact Rita, or look the mill up on the web. We are so fortunate to finally have a fiber mill in Arizona that understands our passion for fiber. Let's be sure and show our support by sending our business to her so we can continue the growth of fiber related businesses in Arizona.

The address is below:

Arizona Fiber Mill LLC
7485 E 1st Street
Suite A, Prescott, AZ 86314

http://www.arizonafibermill.com/

Keeping up

I always mean to post more often. It is not that I am weak on ideas and thoughts. I am constantly busy designing and making new pieces.
You can blame part of it on Pinterest as I only have to post a photo. The other part is I fail to use the computer as much as others seem to. I love technology yet I seem to get stuck in a rut. I use it a lot then hardly at all. Remember it, and the cycle starts again.

I think the biggest problem is time. I want more, yet no one will sell me theirs. So I only have what I have, and it seems to vanish before I accomplish all I dream of doing.

No matter, I have written a post for you and now will add some photos of current projects.

New Approach To Freeform

I have been using glass pieces made by Jody of Greenbean Studio to create freeform necklaces. Here is two of them I recently finished.

what is it?

Can you see anything in this picture?

Phoenix extremes

Last week we had a bit of weather, hail and very cold rain, then the sun and 80 degrees just in time for the shearing.

Meet Velvet who has provided me with a beautiful portion of her fleece. (She is the one with the brown fleece)

While carding her clean washed wool my three grandchildren decided the best way to offer the small nubs and second cuts to the birds for nest building, was by decorating a desert plant that is getting ready to bloom. Won't the flowers be surprised to see the wool waiting to greet them!

Dye Study

This is yarn we dyed in our Master Spinning "dye study day".

 

I am planning a free form project.