I want to apologize ahead of time I tend to have squirrel moments I will try to edit so that it doesn’t seem like I’m just flitting from topic to topic, but I tend to start talking about one thing and then another thing comes to my mind, and I don’t want to lose it.  So, if you are reading along and all the sudden in the middle of a paragraph, I seem to go off on a different topic I apologize.  I will try to edited before being posted but things do get missed.

Here I am again just wanting to talk about fiber and the things that you can do with it.  As I talked about in my first post, I taught myself how to knit and crochet.  I love the feeling of the yarn in my hands and seeing what I can create with either a pattern from a book or just an image from your mind.  Over the last few years, I have dipped my toes so to speak into the realm of spinning wool using drop spindle and weaving on a Ridged Heddle loom.  As I said I have a fascination with anything having to do with fiber, from start the raw newly sheard fiber that needs to be cleaned, all the way to the finished product of a completed project whether it be with needles or hooks or even on a loom.  I just enjoy the rhythm and peace of the work.  I find working a project very relaxing even when trying to teach myself a new stich, just the process of figuring it out myself is very satisfying.  Any time I get stressed I pull out my hook or my needles depending on the project I am carrying with me at the time and just get to work, and the stress and anxiety just starts to melt away.  That is the great thing about knitting and crocheting they are a portable hobby that you can take pretty much anywhere.  I try to always take a project with me so that if I go somewhere and have to wait for any reason, I have something to do. 

So, a few years ago I started myself on the road with unspun fiber to try my hand at the drop spindle.  I love the idea of making something with yarn that I spun myself.  Unfortunately, I have not finished enough yarn to make a project.  Drop Spindling takes time and a comfortable chair, which a year ago I did not have much of and still don’t.  I would like to try a spinning wheel just because it seems as if it would not take as much time and patents.  My favorite web sites to get fiber for spinning are Knitpicks.com, Woolery.com, and Paridisfibers.com.  They all have great selections of yarn and fiber as well as notions and accessories.  I started my knitting needle collection using KnitPicks.com and have an assortment of fixed and interchangeable needles now but I think you can never have to many 😊.  I also have some from my grandmother when she passed away, a few of us granddaughters that knit and crochet got to go through her stash and split it.  My weaving and spinning things I get from ParadiseFibers.com and Woolery.com.  They all have great fiber selections with different fiber content and lots of colors and even have clubs you can join where you can get different types of fiber to spin or even project kits that include pattern and yarn. 

If you are a fiber enthusiast, you understand that feeling when you start a new project and you are choosing your yarn and fiber content and color.  I love looking through the yarn at the store checking the softness of the yarn to make sure it is something that I would put near my skin.

I have two current projects. The first is a Knitted Corner to Corner blanket for my Brother In Law and the other is 2 Crochet doggie sweaters for my Beagle Babies. I will add pictures on my next post since I am still ;earning how this blog stuff works.

I hope your fiber journey is as full as your stash.