Apr 16 2009
what’s your flavour?
Are these not just the cutest?
They are like little pets. Colorful bits of hand-dyed, hand-carded mulberry silk, in several colourful flavours. :) I would like to keep them all for my personal little pet collection but I will be carding them with some hand-dyed alpaca and merino and bringing them to the Frolic next weekend. Time is flying. It will be here fast!
Now that the weather is finally getting nice - yesterday was the first day since last fall I felt was balmy enough to hang freshly dyed out to dry. And the warmer weather is adding a bit of energy that’s been lacking around here - all the long snowy days kind of get to you after a while. Now it’s spring! I’m hoping officially here since I have mosquitoes instead of snowflakes dancing around the front porch (yes, this is Ontario - from snowflakes to black flies in less than a week).
Today I saw a butterfly which I also feel bodes well.
I can see my dad putting his snow-blower away for the winter across the road… I think that’s a good sign, too.
I am really looking forward to the Frolic. Many new vendors this year, too, although I don’t really get to shop (which is probably not a bad thing for my pocketbook since the takings are usually phenomenal).
The last several months have been spent putting things together. I’ve got several new designs and lots of spinning goodies this year.
I thought I would share a few tastes of the new lotus shawl (still not officially named… it will come to me sometime soon in the middle of the nigh, I’m sure).
I will have kits for this at the Frolic in hand-dyed laceweight merino in lots of spring colourways.
So, I’d better get back to knitting, dyeing and carding… still lots to do!
I may, a little later, park on the front porch with the laptop for a change of scene… always a sure sign of spring around here. :)
