Oregon Flock and Fiber 2018

It is amazing how your focus can change from one year to the next. I am a sock knitter... I buy mostly sock yarn. Every once in a while I will buy for a sweater or shawl, but my true love is socks. 

And then I got a spinning wheel!

Don't worry too much I'm still knitting socks and most likely will till I can knit no longer but spinning? It is a whole new world of fun.

So for the record I bought four braids from Greenwood Fiberworks. All different breeds and colors. I bought two braids of superwash Merino, one orange and one purple from Hanks in the Hood.

I expanded my breed study of Shaggy Bear's flock by six more. And was talked into trying Soay locks. By talked into I mean that she showed it to me and I said yes please. She said "You don't have to buy it I just wanted to make sure you saw it since we just washed some." To which I replied yes but I want to try locks now too.

I needed more Eucalan wool wash since I've been washing more wool. Funny how that works when you spend more time in the yarn room.

I found four issues of Ply magazine to bring home too. There were more but I thought I could start with these. I've never see one in a bookstore or yarn shop. Of course I've only been spinning for a short while now and have never needed to look for them before.

I stared out the morning taking a spinning class. I attempted spinning woolen and man is that going to take some practice. A got to be the target of wheel envy. I was walking Oldwyn, yes that is her name, back to the car after class and a lady walking by said "Beautiful Wheel". Which is really nice since many of the spinners I talk to say Ashfords are beginner wheels. Well, we're pretty darn happy together.

My cute picture there? It was bought for my Rhinebeck room. It says "Go away I'm introverting." Rhinebeck is slowly evolving into the room I want it to be, a wooly place of joy.

Oh and Miss Melissa is training up to be a wool inspector. Right now it is mostly just giving things a really good sniff over. But one day she is going to pick a fleece for me.