Spring Lambs and prep for our "High Desert Wool Growers Fiber Market"

My friend Michele Long has 27 new babies and only half are here.
Such fun holding and playing with them.We had a nice warm
sunny day. I also got to see her art yarns she is working up for
the show. She will have lots of yarn and roving. I am sharing
a booth with her and we will be right inside the door. I will have of
course my knitting patterns and 4 Norwegian linen and wool teppe.
I just finished weaving them only need to hem the ends. Also some
mug rugs from the samplings.

Blue eyed Angora goat

Black twin lambs

beautiful color! Angora goat baby

Michele with her baby girl gotland sheep

Newest Angora baby

Oscar... last years bottle baby

Baby Roo with my boots, good doggie smells
He is this years bottle baby and is half indoor, half out now

Roo is a fine Gotland specimen!!
the fleece is soo soft and springy, can't
wait to knit it!!

Sunbathing babys

The only way Roo will be still for a picture, and Me with very
windblown hair!

Mom goat with twins

Michele's Art yarns, some with beads and coils

3 new teppe washed After washing and some ironing the linen just shines!!!

Annie supervising the looooong runner just off the loom

My personal favorite! All with 100% Norwegian linen
and Rauma prydvevgarn/ wool from Spelsau sheep
will wear forever!!!

Blue and green teppe/ can be runner or wall hanging

Last but not least, part of a sleeve!

This is my newest pattern. It will have more pale

turquoise at the top. The body will have similar small

patterns from Norwegian weaving patterns.

This is my inspiration! My friend Berta Styve Lid in 

Norway chased down a 20 year out of print book on norge 

åklær by Anne Grete Sandstad.  Mange takk to Berta!!!

I have already used this book so much!! You can see they used the

pale turquoise, red  orange and darkest brown. The patterns

are small geometrics of repeated 6 or 4 shafts. It has NO

carries!  I also used the Enkelt skillbragd patterns in here for

my teppe above. Fantastic!! Beautiful book!!!

I am also giving a 1 hour talk on knitting with stranded patterns

at the Wool Market Sat March 28 in Prineville Oregon. Please

come!!! It is at the fairgrounds all day!!!

March 2015 Trade Needlework show in Nashville!!!

 This was the very best show. Way more vendors and

many more shops. People came from far and wide, even

with the horrid weather back east.

Ink Circles Booth at Nashville

 I was so happy Tracy sold out of a lot of patterns. She had about 9 

new patterns and they went fast.I wanted the "Get Kraken" and 

she wouldn't let me have it until the end of the show. She of 

course sold out and lucky for me, we found a pattern when she

was packing up! Love the Fresian samplers! This is a very funny 

version of the battle of 1694 in the Greenland sea. 

All lives were lost trying to trap the Sea mermaids.

It says in Dutch "And thus began the epic battle and no man 

escaped his watery grave".  * or maybe I just made all that up!

 I especially love the tiny ship on the monsters tail! 

Colors are fabulous Gloriana silks.

So we must all get Kraken!!!

The Green is Holly Jolly Mandala show special... sold out

Gigi Ries of Belgium,  brought a real Tappan cloth  originally from Sumatra, to show us the
style of Tracy's Big Red Ship (mine in progress on the right)

Tracy's wee "Cover Story", a take on overshot patterns
Note my handwoven Lacy scarf, underneath.

5 floors worth of shops!! in the 160's

So many shops I couldn't even see them all. The buyers figured they
had 8.5 min in each shop if they saw them all!

Summer House Stitch Works red work... Beautiful!!!

Summer House Stitch Workes "Post Cards"

Barbara Hutson's Queenstown samplers of which I bought
Mercedes Ospina, the red, and the Dutch lower right.
She has done wonderful reproduction and lucky me, I got
to meet her, and she is lovely!

An old Antique from the Needle's Work Antiques

Very cute "Freebies" from Ink Circles, Summer House Stitch workes
and Hands on Designs.... Tracy's buddies all in cahoots.
I have the patterns!!!

Gigi's ancient antiques from Belgium

Heartstrings booth, next door to us!

Eye on the Sparrow by Beth Twist

This is the Stitch Along on Sampler World that  I have started. How 
fun to see the original!!! It is so much more beautiful in person!!!

 This is my favorite picture.... MY STASH... how fun!!! I got 
2 of Barbara Hutson's Queenstown samplers, The Cardinal Points of
Long Dog with the threads at Gentle Arts Sampler Threads, and Gigi
hand carried the Ariadne magazine with a pattern I want from Belgium!!
She is such a wonderful friend. I really wanted an old Friesan sampler
pattern.

Gigi brought her fantastic wall hanging of
Renato Perolin combined designs!!! Can you believe it?
This is about 5 feet tall and was hung in the hotel lobby.
A real show stopper.
A very fun time was had by all and I got back at 11:48pm after 12
hours of flying and plane transfers! So tired today, but at
least I don't have to go to work. The best part of the show was
that I got to visit with my daughter Tracy and grandson Paul for 5 days!

Spring spinning in Redmond....it is 65.. therefore... "spring"

Our spinning guild met at our local library.
Lovely room, bright and sunny, with very
nice murals. That's me in front of the
unicorn... having fun now!! Note the
cool 3D bobbin!! Christmas present from
dear daughter Tracy.

Diane in her brand new sirkler sweater she just finished!

She is a star pupil and did the whole sweater perfectly!

Back of Tracys sirkler sweater in dark turquoise

lots of spinning = FUN on Valentines Day

Close up of new 3D bobbins!! every color has a different pattern

Aker works makes the #D printed bobbins in every color 

of the rainbow, for all the spinnning wheels! 

In a whole lot of patterns.  How fun! They work too!!!!    http://www.akerworks.com/bobbins.html

Hitchiker scarf I made for dear daughter Darcy for Christmas

My friend Carrie modeling a cap Randee made for her grandson!

Our one horned buck scraping off the velvet

We have had a whole lot of deer lately. 5 bucks in a group one day,

6 does another and a new baby a few days ago. They never stay in

one place long enough for a picture.

The 3 sisters on Valentines Day
snow level is melting away!!! Not a good prognosis for summer water

Sister in December from our house,
snow level is much lower

Here is what I am working on now! I know, lots of projects, but I am

rewarding myself with new starts as I finished the big long term 3 last

summer.

My daughter Tracy's {Ink Circles} Big Red Ship of Life
I have 40 ct lakeside linen vintage sand and Gloriana silk Schoolhouse Red

My new teppe (wall hanging or table runner)
I am using Norwegian linen warp and Prydvevgarn wool

Humble beginnings of : His Eye is On the Sparrow
vintage country mocha 40 ct and Gentle Arts Sampler threads

Another Tracy {Ink Circles} design: Blue Morpho
only 3 days in, with Gloriana silk and Legacy PTP 36ct linen
I wanted something easier to see to take to Nashville. I
am going with Tracy Feb 26 for the TNNA!!! Yeah!!! I
will be sure to take lots of pictures of the embroidery at the show