Thursday, July 13, 2006

My new Passion



OHHHH MYYYYY GAWWWWWWWDDDDDDDD! I have a new passion! Spinning!!
I will try to start at the beginning, but I am so excited that I will probably skip around keep up if you can. LOL
About a week ago my daughter and I went to an Alpaca Farm (Acres of Love). On that visit I was given a reasonable amount of fleece to learn what I could from and just enjoy. Well my head was reeling from just getting my hands on raw fleece, I was so excited and could not stop playing with it. I got online and started searching for a store or a person who could teach me something about spinning it into yarn. I didn't want to send it out to somebody to spin it I wanted to spin it. My search led me to Margaret, a wonderfully sweet and helpful woman who asked if I wanted to come to her home and she would show me how to spin. Yesterday I spent the day with her at her farm learning how to spin, she let me try a drop spindle, then 3 of her spinning wheels. I loved it and had a great time. She was even kind enough to let me take one home to play with, she also gave me some wool to work with. To top it all off when I got home and showed my dear sweet hubby what I had learned he said that I should get myself a spinning wheel "make sure its a good one that you will really like". Isn't he great!!!! I gotta get off here and go start spinning!! YEAHHHHH Oh and I finished my Bag. Let me know what ya think Please.