Happy Thanksgiving!

I won’t be around the a computer tomorrow so I wish you a happy feast day. I am thankful for all that I have.

Monday Mosaic: Autumn

1. Autumn Bird, 2. Autumn mosaic, 3. autumn, 4. An autumn day, 5. Autumn Ride !, 6. Autumn, 7. Japanese Maple Autumn Colors, 8. I’am looking for my brother, he hates autumn, 9. 秋天到了！ Autumn Has Arrived! de Herbscht isch cho!, 10. Too late for the apples, 11. Colours of autumn!!, 12. Squash
I have [...]

Fiber Files: Cellulose

Today’s Fiber File is about the building block of a whole class of fibers, cellulose. Cellulose in and of itself is not really a fiber but it is what makes up the cells of plant material. Cotton, hemp, rayon, linen, and your garden outside are made up of cellulose, it is the most common organic [...]

Shearing a Jacob Ram

Shearing a Jacob Ram
Originally uploaded by LizzyAnnH

Check out the horns on this guy! He was not excited about getting a hair cut.

Shearing Day at Meridian Jacobs Farm

This past Sunday was a big day at Meridian Jacobs Farm, it was shearing day for the 50 or so Jacob sheep raised by Robin and Dan Lynde. I drove out with my knitting friend Marissa and her family.  The farm is out near Vacaville and it is a lovely drive through the hills and [...]

Fiber Chemistry Files: Wool

Thanks to Dan over at the Roving Gnome and a thread on the Love to Dye group over on Ravlery I feel a need to get my geek on in some way. So I decided that I should start providing links to things that are more on the sciencey side.
Today I offer you a link [...]

Experiments in Surface Design

This is a piece of cotton sateen that has been hanging by my desk at work for a long while now and I keep looking at it wondering what I should do with it. Cut it up? Sew into/ onto it? Parts of it I like, other parts not so much, it was my least [...]

For all you Blog Junkies

It is out! The new issue of Artful Blogging, one of several magazine addictions that I have and am hoping to spread. This mag is page after page of eye candy and the fun doesn’t stop there because if you are like me you have to go look at (and end up subscribing to) all [...]

Are you Eating your Politics?

Some food for thought over at Tea & Cookies.

TeaTreats

This weekend was a fun tea things filled weekend. On Saturday my friend Nita (SpitSplice to any Ravelers out there) came and dropped off two boxes full of crochet and knitting patterns for me to go through (more on these later) and then we and her hubbie went to my local tea bar, L’amyx, for [...]