Jack and Woollies

Fall is in the air! Jack - The Pumpkin King is in shop at -www.giffordables.etsy.com along with a few other big and fluffy spinning batts.

Do you see - what I see?

There it is! A woolly caterpillar. Hmmm..... I'm checking the amount of black on this little fellow to check and see, just how long and hard the winter is going to be.

Looks to be about equal with the reddish brown.

What do you all think?

Won't be long, and we won't have to guess anymore.

 Winter will be upon us before we know it !

GLITTER PUMPKIN'S

Fall is Here!

Crazy busy day , but managed to card up some colorful "Glitter Pumpkins. Fluffy, and chock full of a variety of wools, black carbonized bamboo, alpaca, and topped with sparkly peacock angelina.

Just listed at http://giffordables.etsy.com/

Hope everyone took a moment to enjoy the day!

Fall is finally here!

        I love the fall. What a beautiful bright orange cluster of berries.

                           The large bush is just loaded with color.

On the rughooking front, I decided to hook up a wool crow. I dyed the wool in a variety of blacks, deep blues, greys, and a smidge of burgundy. He is listed at http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/ , just in time for the fall season.

 I have been washing and dyeing alot of fleece, from a wide range of breeds. I just finished dyeing, and carding up these sparkly wool batts. I dyed masham longwool in a variety of red, wine, and deep burgundy. I topped them off with some sparkly Ruby red angelina.  I based these batts on my favorite Enchanted Forest in the Wizard of Oz .-  Dorothy's Enchanted Apples. Will hit the shop soon.

 More on the dyeing front is some 2-ply light fingering wt. yarn that I spun, and dyed.....

Took a pinch of this, and dab of that, and I came up with this Electric Boogaloo, Chartreuse shade. I'm going to start a pair of socks with this, and will post pic's soon.

                   Well... it's a rainy day here, and I'm just about done with the work for the day.

               Time to make a nice hot cuppa tea, and maybe cast-on for a pair of Electric green socks.

              Hope you all take a little time to enjoy the day!

HOT!

 It's been a hot one, this summer! Testing out the new ladder that hubby put out dockside. Perfect!

                                                        I will be glad when Fall gets here.

                                                           Do you see what I see?

It is one - of the two baby muskrats eating the creeping jenny, down by my shoreline. Cute - but they love to tunnel the yard.

Celebrate Batt will go into  http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/ shop, today. I'm trying to get some fleece washing, and wool dyeing done. It will be so... much more enjoyable when it finally cools off. 

Hope you all get some time to enjoy the day!

Fleece Washing, Dyeing, and Carding

Lot's of fleece washing, dyeing, and carding, going on here. See the sweet curly Romney locks? Just finished dyeing up another batch, and I've been busy carding up big, fluffy batts. I'm spinning some, and I also just listed a batt for sale, over at http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/ .

Hope you all get a little time to enjoy the spin!

Sadie and her wool

Sadie is just one of my latest folk-art doll's. She is listed in the shop at http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/

Busy, busy, busy, is all I can say!  I've been working on doll's, and getting ready to start in on a wool washing marathon, now that the weather is finally getting warm, around here.

Hope everyone is getting a chance to enjoy some nice cool outdoor weather this week.

Weekend is almost here, have a good one!

RAIN...RAIN..GO AWAY!

 The rain is really coming down, but just a few days ago, this pair of geese came up on my shore to munch on some creeping jenny. They spotted me and off they went.

                         
The Spice  - fluffy batts, gone before, I could list them for sale. But....

Spicy Apple is now available at http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/

Fluffy batts of Masham, corrie, llama, kid mohair, alpaca, and angelina.

Off to batten down the hatches!  It's really coming down, and it's hailing!

See you - all soon!