Hey all, it's been a while since I've updated.
Apparently my body has decided to rebel. I resent this, but I guess I had better learn to suck it up and get with its new program, which means I can revisit spinning, knitting and weaving as meditation. It means slowing down, breathing deep, and taking stock.
All good things, but it's too bad it took me getting sick again to remind me! Do you think I will ever learn to do so before I fall ill?
For the next month I am going to focus on fibre as mindfulness, and use this blog to explore that. I think it's going to be a nice way to reconnect with spinning, weaving and knitting for myself instead of through OVFA in a business way, and to share this journey. It's going to be nice going back to my roots again. I hope you join me...
Make yourself a cup of tea and come join me in my fiber adventures...
Showing posts with label spinning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spinning. Show all posts
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Keep the fleece 2.0
The neat thing about the keep the fleece is watching different people spin up the same fiber dyed in the same colourway. I did up a bunch of wool/silk roving in "Autumn in Gatineau Park" which local spinners will spin up, knitters will knit up, and then we will send to NY to be grafted on to the world's longest scarf.
This is a charity project to contribute to the world's largest fleece flock through Heifer International. Farmers in developing countries earn excellent income by producing fibers.
Here are some of the fruits of our labour so far:
And there's one more by Ragz, but I can't find my camera and the pic is on my memory card. *Sigh* Where is that darn camera. All of my hand dyed rovings are there to!
This is a charity project to contribute to the world's largest fleece flock through Heifer International. Farmers in developing countries earn excellent income by producing fibers.
Here are some of the fruits of our labour so far:
And there's one more by Ragz, but I can't find my camera and the pic is on my memory card. *Sigh* Where is that darn camera. All of my hand dyed rovings are there to!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Blogging Fiber in the Valley...
Hello all! This is my new blog to chronicle my fiber and handspinning adventures. I'm migrating over from Livejournal to blogspot to better line up with my community.
I discovered spinning by hand this year after yearning for yarn with more texture for my knitting. I picked up a drop spindle by happenstance, and the rest is history. Recently, I started Ottawa Valley Fiber Arts. I hope to share my passion for spinning by hand, and to share great information and great products for spinning, weaving and other fiber arts with others in the Ottawa Valley and throughout Canada!
I discovered spinning by hand this year after yearning for yarn with more texture for my knitting. I picked up a drop spindle by happenstance, and the rest is history. Recently, I started Ottawa Valley Fiber Arts. I hope to share my passion for spinning by hand, and to share great information and great products for spinning, weaving and other fiber arts with others in the Ottawa Valley and throughout Canada!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Keep the Fleece
You've gotta love www.keepthefleece.org/. Their goal is to raise a $250,000 for the largest fiber flock in the world for Heifer International, a charity that aims to end world hunger and poverty and care for the earth. Ottawa Valley Fiber Arts is gathering a team to contribute to knitting the world's longest scarf.
Want to join us? You can contribute in one of three ways:
1. Spin up some natural fiber and drop it off/send it in.
2. Knit up the handspun into a 9 inch wide scarf.
3. Spin and knit a part of the 9 inch wide scarf.
Contact me and let me know how you want to be involved. I'll provide two ounces of natural fiber for you to spin if you join us! Our scarf needs to be completed by mid-September in order to be mailed to New York, where it will be joined with all the other scarves from this initiative.
Ottawa Valley Fiber Arts will donate $1.00 per knit row to Keep the Fleece, which will be used to purchase animals for the world's largest fiber flock.
Want to join us? You can contribute in one of three ways:
1. Spin up some natural fiber and drop it off/send it in.
2. Knit up the handspun into a 9 inch wide scarf.
3. Spin and knit a part of the 9 inch wide scarf.
Contact me and let me know how you want to be involved. I'll provide two ounces of natural fiber for you to spin if you join us! Our scarf needs to be completed by mid-September in order to be mailed to New York, where it will be joined with all the other scarves from this initiative.
Ottawa Valley Fiber Arts will donate $1.00 per knit row to Keep the Fleece, which will be used to purchase animals for the world's largest fiber flock.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Yesterday we went to Lamb's Down Park Festival at the Canadian Sheep Grower's Cooperative. Watched a sheep shearing, and got a fleece. Mmmmm...yummy, lanoliny fleece. Can't wait to scour it and spin it up!
Met with a very nice gentleman from Ontario Sheep Farmers Association. Nice people, and I hope to help the local sheep community through my business. In Ontario (or elsewhere?) Need a fleece? Give me a shout, and I'll try to get you the breed you are looking for. This might be better organized next year than this year...As a younger spinner (i.e. 34 ish), it struck me that we need to get out and spin in public more. Spinning is NOT a dying art (well, it is a dyeing art, as evidenced by the two hours I spent dyeing this morning...) and there are many of us who will carry on the craft. Spinning and weaving week is in October. www.weavespindye.org/pages/ I encourage everyone to do something radical, like spin in public that week!
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