Knitting Dragonflies

Oh dear, I am totally living in spinning and spindle world now. Check out these links: How to make a Cigar Box Charkha Make your own Great little Wheel from materials from your home supply store A tutorial on how to make a cotton spindle from a chop stick and a radish From African Crafts How to make your own supported spindle from Spindle City.com How to make and use a bead whorl spindle also from Spindle City From Hankering for Yarn blog , what she decided to use to spin her silk for a wedding shawl From Marnie speaks! Good Girl blog how to make a travel case for your spindle! The Joy of Handspinning , all kinds of good info. Evidently the origins of spinning fiber to make string or yarn are lost in time, traced back as far as the Upper Paleolithic era, which is over 20,000 years ago. How fitting that when spinning, we also get lost in time. I am just learning, slow and clumsy. Yet, while sitting in the living room, as my DH watches TV, reads or draws, I

We have been caught up in lots of yard work. We had our tallest White Pine, which was a 4 split trunk, about 55 ft tall, spilt in a storm. But it didn't fall, simply split and stayed standing. It has been a "edge of the chair" wait for the ground to dry so we could get it cut down. That was today. Hot, humid, lots of lemonade making, and ice and water for the boys. I am really sad to see it go. But all things come to an end. Now our back yard looks bigger and we have some sun in the yard. Of course this involved tearing apart a large raised bed, surrounded by stones, so we could get in to get it. As of now, all of my plants are setting around wilting. I will work on that tomorrow, out of time today. I did find some time to spin. Not much, I am increasing in speed, a little, you can laugh at my results. My first attempts were so heinous I pitched them. This spindle is from Hatchtown Farm , it is a dream to spin with, excellent, and I love it. This is the

I had a request from a girlfriends little girl to make a 70's hat and purse for her American Girl Doll. This is what I came up with.. Of course any baby doll's I have at my house are not in the American Girl league, but hopefully this will work (and fit). That's what's happening here.