One of the small birds which had been coming to the feeder for months got too used to Pounce just sitting outside watching. It made the mistake of thinking an old fat cat was not a threat.
Now its wings and feet are my first specimens drying for use on cards this year.
If you guess (or you know) what kind of bird it was I will send you a couple cards. Ones already made–you do not have to wait for these wings to be used.
First right answer wins.
John and Joel helped me choose the colors and participated in dying these three skeins. The yarn is Lamb ‘O Lakes, 8 ounce skeins, about 750 yards per pound.
What, never heard of it? The hand picked fleeces were from a 500+ Finn-Dorset flock my husband shepherded. They were sent to be spun in Vermont back in the ’80’s for the business a friend and I ran for ten years called : Lamb O’Lakes. I hand-dyed all theyarn. We made one-of-a-kind things before it was popular to do so. We had a knitting machine that I learned to use. I used to solve knitting dilemmas in my dreams.
I do not crochet. But the girl does, and recent guests did. Quite a lot and quite imaginatively. A sampling:
Mittens, hat, scarf and purse. The purse was started at
your house, Uberimma!
I, meanwhile, finished two scarves.
Then, thanks to a heads up by the same Uberimma, I bought two bags of Noro Kureyon. On sale. If you do not know of it, then spare yourself and do not look at it. I am both a spinner and dyer and still could not resist the single strand multicolor change yarn.
And then there is Ravelry. Stop now if you have no moments to spare. It is a great way to find lots of ideas and patterns and lose time that could be spent elsewhere. Since I had ordered the Kureyon, I spent time looking ate lovely objects knitted with it and found a Finnish doubleknit scarf I really liked. Kaisa, a friend from Finland, came over and interpreted it for us one day.
So I started right away on yarns I had, then dyed some more with the two youngest boys who were very interested in all things fiber related. Including silk from milkweed pods.
Angela took the photo last night.
There is more, but must run books to the library.
We made some chocolate cookies today.
Here are a couple to be baked tomorrow. This owl looks much more impressive in person.
And here is the only turkey that we have ‘caught’ so far this fall.
Found the note I made about this wonderful yarn Uberimma had. It is Kauni Effektgarn, out of Estonia. Have been looking at things on Ravelry people have made with it. The word is it is not soft and has long stretches of one color before changing. I like the rainbow and blue-greens best.
Uberimma has blogged about her son building. He started the house project while we were there.
