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Archive for May, 2008

…I officially can’t shut up! ;o)

I normally don’t post on Saturdays, but this is too important to wait until the end of the weekend. You see, there’s a fiberista who needs a bit of a boost from her fellow knitters and spinners.

Some of you who have been at this blogging thing for a while will remember PippiKneeSocks – she lives in Vermont and dyes lovely, gorgeous, heart-stopping yarn and roving. Or, at least she did up until a while ago. You see, life hasn’t been very kind to her and her family lately which didn’t help the ‘creative’ side of her – it’s hard to be creative when you’re worried about anything and everything, you know? So, because of this, she stopped posting, stopped dyeing, stopped spinning, stopped knitting. Recently, Amy of Spunky Eclectic posted that Pippi needed help and, even though she was putting her life on the line by putting it out there, she was asking people to help.

I put three skeins of handspun in the mail immediately. I seriously have never mailed anything so fast before in my life – you see, I don’t know Pippi very well but she did consider hiring me as her bookkeeper before everything went all crazy so I have spoken to her once or twice. She is one of the nicest people on the planet and it’s seriously not cool what the planet has been doing to her lately. SO, if you had a hankering to own this skein:

or this one:

or even this one:

Or a skein of yarn from spinners way more talented than I, keep an eye on this page, Amy’s auctioning off stuff left and right AND Scout has a raffle going, for every $5 you donate, your name goes into a hat to win some gorgeous yarn or one of two $50 gift cards to her shop (and possibly some other stuff).

I’m happy to say that I’ve heard Pippi recently picked up the needles again. You see? Knitting Karma is a powerful thing. So is friendship – kudos to Amy for stepping up to the plate. Sometimes you have to do what needs to be done for a friend even if they don’t like it. ;o)

…brought to you this week by Jazz and her contemplation of our squirrel population (because it’s late, my brain is fried and I can’t find the flower pictures):

Have a great weekend, everyone!

P.S. Today is Dobby’s last day of High School – and she’s actually graduating! (She passed her finals – yay!) I’m so happy, I’m letting her drive my Jeep to school. ;o)

…might be a personal record or something. Lately I haven’t been able to think of anything to post about and trying to come up with my usual three a week was kind of a struggle. Apparently that is not the problem this week – I can’t seem to shut up! Today I’m covering a few things – Cummington included. ;o)

First, Jazz would like me to thank you all for your well-wishes. She is feeling much better and is LOVING the chicken and rice diet (so much for it being a punishment) and can’t WAIT until Momma lets her off the string (she gets walked on a leash until the vet says otherwise. yay.) so she can maybe catch those stupid birds who are mocking her…

Second, I wasn’t very clear on Tuesday’s post. That peony blossom is the first one that particular plant has given up in the five or so years since I bought it as a bare root plant (cheap!) at Walmart.com in 2003 – or it might have been 2002 – and planted it. I thought for sure it was yellow…I am so very happy it’s not. You see, the other peony (the one on the right) is also a light pink:

This year it looks like she is going to give me six (!) blooms. Amazing!!

Last but not least, we have Cummington. It happens to be my favorite fiber festival – and it is also where I learned to spin two years ago. This year I went more for the people than the ’stuff’ (at least, that’s what I told myself after I found out that Foxfire didn’t have any batts left) ;o)

I witnessed the birth of a fleece:

Dave in fine leg (and Marcy looking very confused – and some woman who I don’t know but wouldn’t sell me her Canadian Production Wheel so I blurred out her face…hehe):

…and I’m calling this one “BUSTED!” or “Now We Know What Laurie Does When She Thinks No One is Looking”:

After some fine wine at lunch (thanks Carole and (blogless) Sharon for feeding me!), we stopped by Amy’s booth – which is where I did the most damage to my wallet:

Then on to the next…

and finally, a bit of yarn.

Overall a good day that ended with me spinning on my Golding spindle at the first car club cruise of the year in Canaan, CT and falling into bed, exhausted, at 10:30 which is completely out of character for me. I think it might have been the getting up before 9 – which is early for me, I’m a night owl and have trouble sleeping before 3am – and wine at lunch (I’m a cheap date – ask RR) ;o)