Category: Fiber Arts

Hello Fiber Arts Friday Fans

Last Saturday was the Genesee Valley Hunt Races.  I got to spend the day in the Ag tent with 2 great spinners Jennifer and Anya.  The morning started off with the season’s first hard freeze and thank goodness we are fiber freaks.  All 3 of us dug through our stash of wears to sell and covered ourselves in anything we could to keep warm.    Jenn had mittens on her feet to spin and I capped off my toes with wine bottle Koozies.    We made for an interesting looking group until things warmed up by lunch.  FYI, it’s really hard to take photos of people who don’t want their photos taken!  HA got you anyway!

It turned out to be a great day too, LOTS of folks stopped by to ask questions and watch the process go from raw fiber, carded and spun up into yarn.  I was rather amazed to see that we could actually continue to spin even though our fingers were dark purple and stiff with cold.  Being the sissy I am I even took one of my hides off the table and wrapped it around me like a big alpaca hug.  Thanks to the alpaca’s long neck it ended up looking like an alpaca toga party!

Braiding seminar is tomorrow!  Despite crazy work hours, my drinking habits and farm chores I’ve been busy twisting up cord and getting ready for Saturday.  All the extra cord work means more scraps for my psycho square blanket.  I think I’m ready to start on the pop colors now.  I’ve been refraining from adding them but I think it’s time.

So, what have you been up to this week?

Good day Fiber Arts Friday followers.

I’ve actually been able to enjoy some of the fall recently.  The turning of the trees,  the smell of fallen leaves, and crisp morning air has put me into a fiber mood and it’s reflected in my work.

Mr Pumpkin
In an effort to promote the rest of the Lollypop Yarn I made up this little guy.

He eventually was crochet up into a curly scarf and matching pumpkin koozie.

His cute little face did inspire someone to purchase some lollypop yarn and their own twirly scarf.  Here’s their finished project.  Remember, every skein of Lollypop Yarn that is purchased goes to help the Rochester Humane Society!

Projects = left over yarn scraps so here’s how my crazy granny square blanket is coming.

Last but not least!  If you’re in the area be sure to stop by the Genesee Valley Hunt Races on Saturday!  10am til 4pm.   Lots of great fun to be had by everyone and the weather is shaping up to be good for it.   Stop by and say hi, I’ll be in the NYFB Ag tent doing spinning and fiber demonstrations.   I’ll also have some of those tasty Ch’arki and Snack Sticks for sale!

Hi Fiber Arts Friday Fans.

So for the past month I haven’t posted.  Why?  Day job, nuff said! Darn thing gets in the way of me having fun ALL the time.  Well with colleges and schools starting up again my work load drops off.  Thank goodness too because I was starting to get burnt out.

Anyway I’ve been able to pick up the fiber fun recently and here’s what I’ve been up to.

First I’ve been busy braiding LOTS of ropes.  I’ve finished 7 ropes in the last week.  Here’s a sample of some of the brightest dyes I’ve ever done in my life.

Of course I couldn’t help by braid up a pair of split reins for myself.  My camera still hates the color purple but here’s as close as I could get, the purple is nice and bright and the yellow is more of a gold color.  Can’t wait to show them off at my next horse show!

Next photo is fiber-n-fiber,  I was stuck at a headend one day and brought my knitting with me.  Thought the concept of alpaca fiber and fiber-optics was way too funny of a photo to pass up.

Lastly I’ve been teaching myself a new braid!  This little tiny test braid has 12 strands! My that’s a lot of untangling of dangly ends.

Ok that’s it for now.  What have you guys been up to?