Clear Creek Lavender is once again headed south to Memphis and the Pink Palace Festival. Earlier this evening I reread a post written while we were in Memphis last year. While I haven’t practiced or perfected my southern drawl in the past year I am delighted to be going back to Memphis where being polite is natural and…
Remember that post by me about casting on Shipwreck with my hand-dyed llama yarn? It wasn’t meant to be. I frogged the llama yarn and put it back the side of my desk. Llama yarn just doesn’t have the right elasticity for that project. I loved the yarn (from a dear friend’s llama) and loved…
Why is that I can finish enormous complicated lace projects but I can’t finish a dang thing with sleeves? var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-xxxxxx-x”);pageTracker._trackPageview(); Second sock syndrome – not a problem. Sleeves can stop a project dead in it’s tracks.…
Last night we took a few hours off from prepping for the next few lavender events and drove into Tulsa for dinner with my daughter Hillarey and her partner Lance. Actually one of the bands Lance plays in was the evening’s feature entertainment at one of our favorite eateries, Elote in downtown Tulsa. Lance is…
Sometimes it is the little luxuries that make me happy. Like having mailboxes again after six months. They made it through the weekend without being demolished. I’m feeling pretty optimistic.
My blue phase continues with the Shipwreck Shawl , but my Shipwreck will take place in a clear blue sky with lush llama yarn! This yarn is from my friend Lisa‘s llama “Ally”. Ally is actually a cream colored gal but I’ve been playing in the dye pot and like the results. Llama yarn is similar…
Who wears silk and beads in the boondocks? Well – me apparently! The Blue Silk Aeolian is off the wires and will be going to Kat tomorrow who will take it to the Tulsa State Fair competition for me while we’re in Winfield. I pulled the pins and wires out this afternoon so we could…
There’s a lovely fiber contest over on the Fiber Farm blog. Fiber, buttons, pins, project bag…. How fun is that? To top it off they’re starting someone off with a herd of angora goats!! Check it out! I’m hoping my friend Lisa at Living Kitchen wins the goats!!! var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ?…
For several months now the well here on the farm has been misbehaving. Granted it’s over thirty years old and only about fifteen feet deep. For decades it has provided wonderful tasting water for drinking, clean water for cooking and bathing and even irrigation for our fields. Late yesterday afternoon I turned on the shower…
It is still officially summer – but the temperature is beginning to dip into the 50’s at night and the fall rains have arrived early. The video below was taken this morning during a heavy rainfall. The sound was deafening when I stepped onto the balcony. The spring runs beside our house for about forty…