Busy Busy

Hi all you crafter out there.  This is a really busy time of year, school starting, harvest going, UFOs not done........  I hope that you can all take some time from your busy schedule for our upcoming meeting at Lyn Hale's house.  September 1st is the day.  I hope to have my applesauce and apricots all canned by then.

By Judy

sewing day

We had a great Saturday sewing at Dena's church.  They have great long table and wonderful lighting for sewing.  Lyn showed us how to do the "impossible" by making and quilting a quilt in pieces but making it look like it was all done at once.  I have already started one.  April has also done the impossible and spun up some of her dye soppers so fine that she Navajo plyed it and it is still almost lace weight weight yarn.  We are considering expelling her from our club!!  :-)  Some of these meetings are kind of spur of the minute deals but if any of you would like to be notified when we are doing something extra like these please let me know.

Written by Judy

4th Of July Weekend in the Park

This is Lyn showing us how to mix different colors of yarn for roving to spin. After she added all the colors she wanted she took a bottle cap (off her milk bottle in which she had drilled a hole) and just pulled a small twist of the fibers through the hole in the middle of the cap, sliding the cap up the fibers. She started from one side and went to the other and ended up with a long length ready to spin into yarn. Do I have that right Lyn?

Blue Day

Saturday became a very blue day.  We were feeling blue, dyed blue, and so was everything that we touched.   One of us picked up the jar of undiluted blue instead of the diluted and put it in the dye pot.  We dyed everything we could find and never did exhaust the dye.  We also rinsed and rinsed and rinsed trying to get the excess dye out of what we did dye.   We did wind up with some pretty blue yarns though.

I attempted to dye some roving for socks but it turned out VERY green and I think it will go to Lyn and I will try again.

From Judy

July meeting

We met at Margies home this month.  She has the most beautiful deck!!  We had a great time as usual with some knitters, spinners, crocheters, and quilters.  We saw a BEAUTIFUL quilt.  Dena showed off her new wheel.  We had a new member this time, Elizabeth Truscott, she is eager to learn to spin.

Next months meeting will be at Anita Owen's home and she is planning a BBQ.  We will need to let her know if we are planning to attend and if our spouses will be attending.

Lake Walcott retreat

We had a great time at the Lake Walcott retreat.  We did lots of spinning, washing fleece, eating, knitting, eating, and more eating.  Hope everyone can plan to attend next year.

We have a blog!!

I think we might have a new blog for our group.  I hope that I have done this write.  There seems to be a typo in the name somewhere that I can't find.  I will add some pictures later when I figure out what I am doing.