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Meet Skye!

denisemor 3 August 11, 2013December 8, 2013

Skye is a sweet handsome golden retreiver/white shepherd boy, and he just moved out here to the boonies to live with us on Thursday night.

He’s been pretty busy the last few days, checking the perimeter-

frolicking with Sadie-

meeting the sheep-

and checking out the best comfy spots in the house-

He’s still pretty excited about the sheep and chickens, but I think that will subside once they are not such a novelty.

And speaking of sheeps, we have begun to extending the entrance to the sheep shed-

the hope is that a smaller, lighter gate out a little further will make it easier to catch the little buggers inside.

I sure hope it works,
‘Cause the sheeps are wise to all my other tricks!

(that’s Edgar’s wise look)

Monkey Hat, revisited

denisemor 2 August 4, 2013December 8, 2013

And finished!

Turned out pretty cute I think, but I hope it will be a while before I have need to wear it for real!

Also finished some special request socks this past week as well.

And all this finishing is good,,, but it means that I am going to have to start something new already! (That’s good and bad thing about small projects.)

I need to start another sweater.
But sweaters require planning.

I guess this is a planning week.
Stand by for swatches!

Twill!

denisemor 1 July 28, 2013

Fresh off the loom-

This time out I put a little bit wider warp on the little loom.

And thought I’d branch out a little into different patterns.

so this time around it’s all about twill!

Now, what does it want to be, I wonder….

First, thank you all for the kind and supportive comments on my last post.
Losing Walla has been tough. He was one of a kind, and I felt that we really had a special bond.
I know many of have known the pain of losing critters that you care deeply for, and I really appreciate your support.

Denise
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I’d been thinking about indigo for some time.
But it always seemed kind of intimidating.
There are a LOT of ways to dye with indigo.

I felt like I really wanted to have a good understanding of the process before I gave it a go. But I had somehow misplaced the instruction booklet that came with my Earthues kit!

Thankfully, I happened across Cynthia Underwood Thayer’s Indigo Dyeing page

I didn’t have any spectralite in the Earthues kit, but since it is a detergent/excess color remover I figured it wasn’t too critical. Hide glue did come in the kit, and served the same purpose as the gelatin (to protect the fibers in the very alkaline dye solution).