Life's like that...

My wonderful other half and I sorted out shares of Canadian Fibre last night while the kidlets were entranced by Caillou, and I have a stack of boxes in the kitchen ready to mail today.

I'll post the link to the newsletter post haste...just ironing out a few final notes.

So sorry for the delay my fibre box friends. Kidlets with colds, and my own arthritis has decided to make a cosier acquaintance with me of late. The crocheting I have been doing is keeping my fingers nimble but I can't seem to beat the fatigue! There was a wonderful article in the Spring Spin Off about the healing aspect of raising sheep, and how wonderful it is to bury your face into the fleece of your own sheep and smell the lanolin. I need to go find a sheep farmer soon, I think!

Quick update and then away with me...

My dye pot has been extraordinarily busy this weekend with 5 skeins complete. I'm quite pleased with myself! My other projects have taken a back seat and are grumpy with me, though, including the thrift store sweater I am frogging for its gorgeous yarn, the llama lace scarf I am knitting (and frogging, and knitting and frogging), and the BFL I mean to spin up.

Creating from fiber makes me deliriously happy. Isn't it wonderfully to find a space where time slips away and your focus is almost singular...

...and then a four year runs into the kitchen grouchy because his nut butter sandwich was cut in squares and not triangles.

But a girl can dream, right?

It's cold outside!

A task for soon is to go around my log home and find all the cracks in the logs. It's clearly getting colder and time to winter proof again!

And time to knit mitts. I found a ball of what I thought was Akapana by Mirasol in the little balls bin at Wool-tyme, and knit it into a wonderfully warm mitten.

The first clue that it was not Akapana should have been that it was too large given the needles and pattern, and likely not a worsted weight yarn!

Any ideas what yarn this is? It feels soft like llama, and has yellow tweedy bits in it...



In other news, spun up some of DaisyLady's wonderful corriedale. Yumm! What a nice way to spend a Saturday. I'm saying goodbye to a Rose today, but it is going to a wonderful home, I'm sure. I'm almost finished weaving in the ends of my orange scarf that appeared in an earlier post.

October's Canadian Fibre Box

I've been really good to myself and my health, and have been mindful to slow things down. I've been doing lots of knitting, spinning, weaving and reading for myself.

But, I'm so passionate about the Fibre Box...I haven't slowed down on that front at all. And I'm re-energized now that 10% of all OVFA sales are going to the Ottawa Food Bank. My business is helping the Canadian Fibre community, and the local community in need. This fits with my value system in a very good way.

This month's boxes are being dropped in the mail today. Above is the yarn in the box, from SweetGeorgia Yarns. It's delicious! Thanks Felicia! Other contributors are Canaan Mohair and Gulf Islands Spinning Mill. To be extra exciting, I added a mini niddy noddy from Houndesign, because Dave's work is really excellent (and Canadian)!

Here's a link to the full newsletter: October's Newsletter. Next month's fibre box contents are already on their way to me from the Prairies.

Have a great week, everyone.
(PS if you want to subscribe, you can order here.)