85/15 wool mohair... handpainted, and gently fluffed/drafted slightly
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
85/15 wool mohair... handpainted, and gently fluffed/drafted slightly
85/15 wool mohair... handpainted, and gently fluffed/drafted slightly
Originally uploaded by polyartgirl.
Polyartgirl Designs Shop at Etsy
Friday, January 26, 2007
Gift Certificates from The Woolery
Gift Certificates from The Woolery
This is a great gift for ANY spinner in your life... (especially me.)
I'm ordering stuff from here today. I could easily spend my paycheck here. I better get to dying rovings...
This is a great gift for ANY spinner in your life... (especially me.)
I'm ordering stuff from here today. I could easily spend my paycheck here. I better get to dying rovings...
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Autum Spinning
This is my niece Autum working on her third bobbin of yarn. She's loving using my "little spinning wheel." At this point she was still just treadling commercial yarn (with a little added angelina) through the orifice, but soon after this she used her first roving to make a couple yards of beautiful thick yarn.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
January 7th: St. Distaff's Day
January 7th: "ST. DISTAFF'S DAY
As the first free day after the twelve by which Christmas was formerly celebrated, the 7th of January was a notable one among our ancestors. They jocularly called it St. Distaff's Dag, or Rock Dag, because by women the rock or distaff was then resumed, or proposed to be so. The duty seems to have been considered a dubious one, and when it was complied with, the ploughmen, who on their part scarcely felt called upon on this day to resume work, made it their sport to set the flax a-burning; in requital of which prank, the maids soused the men from the water-pails. Herrick gives its the popular ritual of the day in some of his cheerful stanzas:
St. Distaff's Day; Or, the Morrow after Twelfth-day
Partly work and partly play
You must on St. Distaffs Day:
From the plough soon free your team;
Then cane home and fother them:
If the maids a-spinning go,
Burn the flax and fire the tow.
Bring in pails of water then,
Let the maids bewash the men.
Give St. Distaff' all the right:
Then bid Christmas sport good night,
And next morrow every one
To his own vocation.'"
As the first free day after the twelve by which Christmas was formerly celebrated, the 7th of January was a notable one among our ancestors. They jocularly called it St. Distaff's Dag, or Rock Dag, because by women the rock or distaff was then resumed, or proposed to be so. The duty seems to have been considered a dubious one, and when it was complied with, the ploughmen, who on their part scarcely felt called upon on this day to resume work, made it their sport to set the flax a-burning; in requital of which prank, the maids soused the men from the water-pails. Herrick gives its the popular ritual of the day in some of his cheerful stanzas:
St. Distaff's Day; Or, the Morrow after Twelfth-day
Partly work and partly play
You must on St. Distaffs Day:
From the plough soon free your team;
Then cane home and fother them:
If the maids a-spinning go,
Burn the flax and fire the tow.
Bring in pails of water then,
Let the maids bewash the men.
Give St. Distaff' all the right:
Then bid Christmas sport good night,
And next morrow every one
To his own vocation.'"
spun from Potluck Rovings from Sunflower in Taos
This yarn came out quite lovely... I didn't want to change the colorway at all so I spun it up with just a little sparkle and plied it back onto itself.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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