I did make one of those pretty little bags in the Jane Austen Knits Fall 2012 issue. I used leftover yarn from stash. I lined it with a soft fabric from an old dress.
And I did a little bit of dyeing. This is kota (Navajo tea) that has been languishing around in my stash of dye materials. I did two batches of wool, and the second has a softer duller yellow. The fabric was the cloth I used to strain out the bits of dyewood. So I washed it, and after ironed it is in my pile of hand dyed fabrics. I poured some of the dye liquor into a gallon jar and added some silk fabrics I had in a pile of stash fabrics. I left it to dye in the sunlight for three or four days. They are very nice, too, and they are now in the pile of hand dyed fabrics.
I am on sockie two of another pair of socks. I am knitting a sontag, and I have started a pair of fingerless mitts with some handspun yarn I found in my stash.
I finally kicked myself in the butt and finished the kitchen towel that I hated on the loom. I then found some larger yarn in my drawer of dishcloth yarn. I finished that towel in one day. I am going to finish one more towel and get the loom free to do something fun. I will have 4 kitchen towels, and one of my friends wants the last one. It will have some funky colors in it that she likes.
I sold a pair of socks on my website! And I have an inquiry about some of the handspun yarn. Whew! I guess I am waiting for lightening to strike, because not much has been happening there.
My lesson today has been about Flickers. I know them as large woodpeckers that are sometimes a nuisance. One cabin I lived in had a flicker that beat on the wall every day at the same time-very early in the morning!
When I looked out my back door today I saw a large bird that was pecking along the ground. It was much bigger than the robins out there. I got my bird book and sure enough, I was right, it was a flicker. I have never seen them peck on the ground. As I was reading the description, habitat, etc. in the bird book, it mentioned that flickers are the only woodpecker that pecks the ground. It was searching for beetles and larvae.
My other lesson is harder for me today. My friend CF came for an overnight last night. She drove from Jasper, and left her dog here. She met her daughter in Fayetteville for a night at the symphony.
This morning when we pulled up the covers, her dog had "dug" a spot on the quilt. It will need major repair. Sigh! My friend OSM's dog peed in three rooms with carpeting. Now this one dug a mess into my quilt. Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!
Something came into the backyard last night. Noodles woke me up with caterwauling at the back door very early at 5 am. Patty would not leave the house after the initial pee break. One time I took her out, she shivered and shook and ran back onto the deck. Noodles has been outside patrolling all day. He has been watching the edges of the property and smelling everything. He comes in, roams around the house, and then he is back outside on his duty rounds. My friend's dog went all over the back yard with her nose down smelling. I did find some scat in the middle of the yard that looks like small mammal-maybe raccoon or possum. I found coyote scat last week, but that is not so unusual.
So I guess that is all that is new and exciting around here. Another dreary weather day. We have been unusually mild while elsewhere it is freezing. We were to have some rain today, and we haven't. It is reported that we are to have a Spring-like storm on Tuesday. Maybe, maybe not. The birds have been feeding in a frenzy, which is a sign of weather change. I believe them more than the weather man.
So back to plying. Have a good week!
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