fiber market – Dutch Hollow Acres

May 1, 2011May 1, 2011

Fiber Market Monday – Green Fans Shawl

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You’ve been watching its progress these past few weeks and the shawl is finally finished! I had intentions of keeping this shawl for myself but decided to do one in alpaca instead and sell this one so here are the details

Materials: Deborah Norville Collection Serenity Garden Yarn
Color: Grass
Content: 100% Microfiber
Size: appox 6′ tip to tip and 3′ depth
Price: $80

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This is a light weight shawl perfect for spring and summer functions. The fans and color pattern add that ‘pop’ to any outfit. The long fringe adds a nice vertical contrast to the horizontal pattern.

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April 22, 2011April 22, 2011

Fiber Arts Friday: A bit of everything

Welcome back to Fiber Arts Friday!

I’ve had a case of Fiber ADD again this week. I think heading up to Jay NY for the shearing seminar got me motivated to play with everything alpaca again.

If you frequent my Fiber Wordless Wednesday you’ve seen my shearing job so I won’t bore you with that again. If you haven’t seen it check it out or think about participating next week, share anything fiber animal related from sheep to rabbits and everything in between.

With my hands on all that alpaca fiber at shearing made me want to spin so I got to work on this bobbin. I haven’t spun in a while and I’m amazed how I’m doing so poorly and getting lumps when I’m trying not to get them. Ugh.

My green shawl has stalled. I got 2 more pattern rows done since you last seen it but at least that was enough to get me onto my last skein! I’m almost there.

Lastly… Here’s the start of the heather gray alpaca shawl using the same pattern as the green shawl. See why I decided to sell the green one and keep this one?

Don’t forget to check back for Fiber Market Monday’s! Got anything to do with fiber? Post it! Etsy, OpenHerd, AlpacaNation, personal websites etc are fair game. This is a shopping market for fiber lovers of all types!

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April 6, 2011April 5, 2011

WIP: Green Shawl Progress

I’ve been working away on the green fan shawl when I can. It’s to the point now where I hate doing a row because it takes SO long and there’s little visible growth. But, I got 3 full pattern rows done on Tuesday which added another 6” to the shawl so I’m happy

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Size wise it currently is the length of 1 arm, my chest and to my elbow of the other arm. I have a 6 foot wing span so I’m thinking it’s about 4.5 ft wide and about 2.75 ft long. Yes, this is how I measure things. Very scientific isn’t it?

This is actually the first time I’ve used the 3.75mm crochet hook and it’s been angering my pinky. The hook shaft must be rubbing on a nerve in my pinky finger and the darn think tingles after just a few minutes. So I started modifying it. At first I put on one of the rubber crochet grippies but that did nothing. Next I added a post-it note and a sticker but it wasn’t fat enough so 3 more stickers were added. Then the post-it note gave up its grip and the whole thing started to slide around so I added 2 rounds of scotch tape and slid the apparatus over the tape and it stuck nicely. Lastly I still wanted more bulk on the end so took the rubber grip off my pen and put it on.

Tada! My nice fat grip 3.75mm crochet hook. Oh yeah, the only reason I did this is because the new ChiaoGoo hook that I bought that has a nice flat and fat bamboo handle made stitches too loosely compared to the hook I was using. Ugh. Oh well, I’ll use it on another project from start to finish.

With any luck I will have this shawl finished in time to go up for sale this coming Fiber Market Monday. What is Fiber Market Monday? It’s a new link party specifically geared to promoting handmade fiber items, raw fiber or fiber animals so come on back this coming Monday and check out all the goodies!

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April 1, 2011April 1, 2011

Fiber Arts Friday: Alpaca Rug Yarn

Hello Fiber Arts Friday Fans.

This week will be a quick one. Usually I write up my posts days in advance but I’m late this week and scrambling to get one up.

Last weekend my mom, hubby and I packed into the car and took a trip down to Autumn Mist Fiber Mill to pick up my recently completed goodies. Last year I had sold my entire raw prime fleeces which left me with 3 years 3rds and some 2nds to play with. I decided on having it made into rug yarn which is thick spun roving looking material spun around a cotton core.

I’ve been waiting for this yarn for some time now to use on my homemade pegloom. Even though we didn’t get back from our trip until 7pm that didn’t stop me from warping up the loom and start weaving.

Just 1 hour after I started I had this beautiful rug!

Shameless Plug: I am going to start Fiber Market Monday’s back up next week. You’re welcome to post about fiber projects your making that will be for sale or highlight a fiber animal that is for sale/stud or maybe their fleece is for sale. Free advertising is always a good thing 🙂

Lastly I’m going to change how I share the link parties I participate in. Instead of spamming you with all the buttons that I usually put here I’m on a collecting mission and will be organizing them all here. Right now it is a work in progress but I have plenty of link parties to fillin all those blanks. Still want your site on the front page? I offer very affordable advertising rates for everthing on the right hand column.