Getting on down the road

Just a quick note to let you know I've arrived safely in Los Angeles and Pat thanks for the package, note and reciepe!

I miss home already but glad to be with my family south. Beth enjoyed her trip with me. I enjoyed mine even though I was quiet...yes I was!

I'm off to Knit Culture (Knitter's Studio as was) today and all weekend long for a huge Trunk Show.

I'll be spinning Cashmere today!

It's very warm here, and just as warm at home. I'm not whinning but whaaaa it's been too hot to make yarn.

I'll be taking knitting lessons next week! Goal to finish Mike's gloves stay tuned for that.

Next week goal is to prune roses wait until you see how large they are!

Water with my own lemons in it rocks.

I love sushi

I booked my flight for trunk shows at Westport Yarns and Sticks and Strings! Can't wait...

I have to go.... come see me!

Summer Winds Down

What says "Summer" more than an ice cream cone after sushi?.......

Then in the morning look what Emma made for our second breakfast....
Then it was our Trunk Show at Twisted


Back to home again and another morning with the Turrentines, Emma and Abel
Mark digging in!
The flower arrangement that Mark and Emma brought to the table
Saturday's class at Twisted beaded bracelets! Everyone of these ladies brought a different color-way it looked like a beading rainbow
OH no it's time for Mariel to pack up, and pack and pack.....
On the last day of her internship we hung the lavender, set yarn and dyed fiber. It was a cool misty morning perfect for dyeing, we also dyed silk shawls that we had purchased at Dharma Trading company
This is how we harvest lavender take a dried bundle and roll it across a screen then pick out all the sticks and load it into bags, we do this while the fiber simmers
Here is my dye work and Emma's birthday present
Columbia Gorge-ous in Merino/Angora/Cashmere drying
Mariels shawl

A blurry picture of Newport Rocks in Cash/Silk
We thought summer had gone as the weather turned cool and misty for several days. Mariel left on Tuesday taking with her a spinning wheel (my only intern to learn how to spin) and lots of yarn. When she arrived home it was 102 degrees and we had 64, although all that changed this weekend, today it was 100 here. Emma and Don are now in Bend for a visit and I'm back down at Becky's, she has an air conditioner in both bedrooms!

Lots of yarn got made yesterday until it got so hot that it over heated the new motor on the spinning wheel. We retreated into the "cool room" cats and all until an early bed time.

Today's project was to pick up the new green house. I stayed home to work on last minute yarn, while Becky and a friend went and did the hard part.

I leave Oregon for the Winter on Tuesday and make our way slowly down the coast of California with Beth! We are planning a visit to Knitterly in Petaluma on Thursday so if you are in the area please come for a visit too.

Mike is looking forward to having his wife back and his wife is looking forward to living with her husband. It's been a long/short summer and it seems that our time apart has been forever. The weather in Southern California has been very mild, just wait until I get there..... no air conditioners in Los Angeles... yet!

Yarn alert! I'll be at Knitterly on Thursday Aug. 19th, Jennifer Knits on Aug. 24th and Knit Culture (AKA Knitter's Studio) Aug. 27-29th see you there if you need good yarn

Living Breathing Sleeping with yarn........

So much yarn has been made these last two weeks. My plying fingers are so sore and red and now have a sharp groove in the index finger. I've beaded yarn so much that my chair, floor and Becky's couch and floor glitters and glows in the dark. I moved out of Becky's house to resume my work here at Tanglewood Central. Mariel has been cutting lavender and unfortunately got stung by a bee.

the Turrentine Family are back and it's great having Mark and Abel here to cuddle and sing to, although I've been glued to my chair since arriving home and when not spinning or plying I'm fixing meals which is great fun.

I was really worn out from massive amounts of yarn so Becky suggested (insisted) I take the weekend off. It was good to have a weekend just her and I.

This is the Chicken/Pullet that is laying the small green eggs. Her name is Susan...

Mariel spent a week at Jan's house while Jan and Neil were on vacation, so while we were working this is where they were! Yes I did get a present from this booth
Becky had made big plans for Saturday and I enjoyed moving around rather than crouched on the couch. So we Jammed! I went to one of many fruit stands near Silverton Oregon and got lots of beautiful fruit.

Becky sorted out some recipes and off we go making Jam

These are the blueberries
Freshly poured out jam
On Sunday I worked in Becky's yard then off to St. Helens to get working again. It was lovely coming home to a house with people in it. Emma has set up a clothes line and hundreds of diapers were hanging from it. I have done massive amounts of yarn and a lot of cooking. Tonight we had a tasty lamb stew that rocked. Along with Popovers. These were some of the prettiest Popovers I've ever made.

I don't have a good soup track record but I'm on a roll lately. The soup was so good that we have none left, nor Popover's!

Today was a long yarning day. I have been doing some testing of spinning equiment for a company. Today I managed to burn (there was smoke no flames) up my spinning wheel. I had to put it outside for a bit until the smoke stopped as I was worried about smoldering fires...

Tomorrow we are going to Woodland Woolworks for some supplies and then Thursday is another long dyeing day. Friday is our Trunk Show at Twisted in Portland Oregon! It has been a long time since I've done anything with my yarn in my home town so we are very excited and have lots of yummy yarn for the viewing.

On the 10th Mariel goes back to her real life and then a week later I'm on the road again going down to California for a few trunk shows and a visit with Mike (and rose trimming) Beth is driving down with me and we plan a stop at Knitterly-more on that when Beth and I have had a chat.

It's been impossible to talk to anyone with all this frantic yarn production. My hips and bottom have been aching with all the sitting and spinning. Then on Sunday moving all Becky's potted plants and weeding and trimming really made me sore. Well 4 more skeins to make before this night is over! See you Friday I hope!