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Welcome back Fiber Arts Friday fans.

This week I lost a good friend, neighbor and equine enthusiast, David Britt.  Of all things David died encephalitis after getting the flu.  I’m so thankful that my last memory of him (a day before he got sick) is when he saw me riding by on one of my horses.  He couldn’t help throwing open a window, hanging half way out, screaming out my name and waving feverishly just to say hello and wish me a good day. David was that kind of guy and so full of love for life and everyone in it. I’m going to miss him and so will the horses, who drag me to a stop at his driveway because they know he’d always come out with some carrots.

So, why this talk of death? Well it’s my only release really.  Sorry to unload on you folks but just getting it out there really helps.  Thank you for tolerating me.

Ironically Stephanie (Hog Island Sheep Rancher) sent me over a TIME article about woolen caskets on Monday.  It just seemed to mesh into what I was going through this week so why not look into fiber funeral options?

There is a rather inventive wool mill in Britain called Hainsworth who has been in the mill business for 225 years and make everything from felt for billiard tables to the uniforms for the Queen’s guards. With economy tanking and the “green” initiative soaring the company figured out a way to tap into a traditionally wood and metal market with their felted wool caskets and cremation presenters.

I’m a bury me in the back yard in a pine box type of personality but I’m thinking oh wouldn’t an alpaca casket be even better?!  Ok, can you tell I don’t handle death well? Seriously though wouldn’t it would be the perfect send off for a fiber artist. You could needle felt a flower to it instead of real flowers.

Ok that’s it I’m done, I can’t type any more but if you want to check out their wool caskets Click Here.

Have a great weekend everyone I’m off to learn how to shear alpacas.

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