Remember this? It now looks like this: A difference, ya reckon? It’s nearly done. There’s trim work to be finished, panel which needs to go on the opposite end wall to the left, cables to be settled, and a small track light arrangement put in behind that front top edge if I can figure out [...]
Yesterday was the spinning group meeting, and we were able to do something I’d been wanting to do for a very long time: we worked with fleece. There’s a limit to what you can do in 4 hours, but I wanted to cover enough ground that they might feel confident enough to venture out on [...]
I’ve been doing prep for the group on Saturday. There’s been this: Merino locks, ready for washing. There was a lovely length on most of these locks, ranging from 3.5 to 4.5 inches, and they wash up to a nice, bright white. You may have to be a fiberholic to appreciate this, but it’s actually [...]
Ok, it’s not a small box; it’s huge. HUGE. And it seems like it’s popping up fairly often lately. I have a soapbox about training folks to perform in professional environments. Somewhere along the line, the idea of professional correspondence seems to have fallen out of a lot of organization’s training programs. I’ve been doing [...]
I’ve convinced the spinning group to use our August 22 meeting for a fleece workshop, and the fleeces are here and waiting for them. I’m pleased with them, and I’m hoping the gals will be as well. They came from Andi and Desiree McMurry of Humble Hills Farm/Genopalette, and are Merino and Merino/Romney crosses . [...]