Normally a headline like this would be followed by a photo of a really spectacular bruise somewhere on the body of a particularly graceful farmer. This time it just indicates that I finally got enough accomplished in the garden that I had time to dye some fiber (bumps) this past weekend. Fall is the time that the hand-spun yarn sales tend to take off and we were running woefully low. So now that it is getting dark earlier in the evening, I am ready to do some serious spinning.
Oh and FYI for those of you who might find this interesting, there is such a thing as "too windy to dry wool".
I had hung all the newly dyed fiber on the clothesline to dry and when I looked out the kitchen window later it was as though the house was being surrounded by a crazy, windblown palette of cartoon squids. There was brightly colored wool strung everywhere, all through the garden borders along the house, it was pretty exciting! And when I went out to reclaim it and wind it into the bumps you see in the photo above, the tendrils wound around me too. It made me laugh out loud, though maybe a little nervously!
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All that wool would of made a bird nest look colorful.. Birds are flying south now, so no birds making nests. I still have 3 hummingbirds..
I marvel at you girls that spin that wool and then make beautiful things with all that color.. I used to knit my grandgirls scarfs, hats and mittens and told them not to wash in the machine. Next time I saw these articles they were felted.. So this year I have decided I'm going to make them felted hats & mittens.
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