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I got off to a bit of a slow start this week with the colorwork for my Tuin, but now that I’m getting a feel for the duplicate stitch and keeping track of the chart, it’s going more smoothly-

Look! Flowers! I see now that doing it this way is going to take a long time, but I do like having control over the color placement.

In other news, with The Man’s help, I made a minor tweak to my already amazingly cheap and highly useful PVC and conduit Niddy Noddy-

With the addition of a few holes and some old metal knitting needles, it is doubling as a portable lazy Kate!

And I can even store the needles in the center section of conduit.

Neat, eh? (Skye doesn’t see what all the excitement is about) 🙂

Sheeps are starting to ask about getting haircut appointments, but the weather hasn’t been cooperating. Maybe next weekend I’ll be able to get a start on shearing!

So here we are, through the yoke chart (minus patterning)-

and ready to dive in and fancy it up!
I’m thinking of doing the rose motif in red.

I’ve got the first area I’ll be working on counted out and marked-

Kinds fussy,, but I’m hoping the results will be worth it!

For the last three years, I have harvested fleeces from the boys using hand shears-
It’s a pretty casual affair, and we like it that way, but it does take me quite a while to get it done.

This year, we’re changing up the routine.

The new equipment just arrived the other day in it’s own special little suitcase:

Let’s take a look inside!

We’ve got the whole setup, and some extra blades –

Will probably still shear mostly with the boys standing haltered, but hopefully this will help us get through it a bit faster and make it a little easier to clean up their tummies when we do have them flipped.

Now we just need the weather to cooperate.

Now that Blackout 2014 is (hopefully) behind us, I’ll catch you up on the highlights:

Sadie & Snow

Skye & Snow (& tennis ball)

Snow Play

Snow Woman

You’re probably picking up a theme here, right?

Yeah, we had quite a lot of snow.
And we lost power.

Normally when that happens, we just fire up the generator and get on with our normal routine.
But it just so happens that this time, The Man is out of town for work.
And I am not generator qualified.

Plan B: Wood-stove.

Thank goodness for the wood-stove.

Breakfast on the Wood-stove:

Napping by the Wood-stove:

Most everything I’ve done indoors for the last two days has been in close proximity to the wood-stove.

What do you do when there is no power for two days?

If you are a pampered critter, you nap

On the Couch:

On the Bed:

Me? When not hauling wood to feed the almighty woodstove, or water for the critters
I continued work on refining my post-apocolyptic skill set:

Spin:

And Knit:

All the while wishing I wasn’t doing it by the light of a headlamp!