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is video it s awesome and it s what i m trying to do when i make rolags to spin i hope i am actually doing it it works for me so what i ll show you in pictures is my style i guess first you start with clean fleece then you pull it apart so step one for me is pulling i put all the locks of wool that i pull out think doll s hair ringlets for this bfl cotswold fleece in a tin bucket once i have a bucket full i move on to step two picking picking i grab a handful of locks then pick them apart even more so that i wind up with a handfull of fluff like you see above this serves to better prepare the wool for carding and also lets any little leftover bits of vm vegetable matter think about it fall out making the fiber even that much cleaner and nicer to spin and eventually knit or wear carding now that i ve gotten the fiber ready i can grab my hand cards basically really big dog brushes but there are actually different grades of fineness to them and such it s a very technical thing and begin to smooth the fiber out even more i do this by brushing back and forth until all the little fibers hairs are a pretty airy cloud once there we re ready for step 4 rolling no not that kind load the card dog brush then keep smoothing it with the opposite one back and forth a couple times until you have fluff stay tuned for part two see you on wordpress o posted by heather at 2 27 2010 02 34 00 pm 0 comments saturday february 20 2010 happy birthday big guy february 19th my boy turned 8 once again i wait for the world to explain to me just how a thing like this could have happened it was just yesterday that he was born so how the heck did he turn 8 regardless it happened so we made cupcakes on thursday night that he then took in to his buddies in his class on friday morning mom got to drop him off too since my school system is still running a 2 hour delay but his school went in on time yay after school i picked him up in the line immediately after school so that he could come home and tear into a few more packages he was immediately wowed by the scooter my parents gave him that i somehow managed not to have a photo of then it was off to pick up the cake and meet auntie jenn and daddy at red robin too much fun for kids and auntie got extra brownie points for the shawn white game and clothes who knew after the dinner it was over to gamestop to trade his 1 year old ds lite for a dsi we totally work the ds time to our advantage by requiring that he read more to earn his play time so far however the ds has always taken a backseat to playing outside and since we still have at least a foot of unmelted snow i don t even see the new toy totally taking over like i ve seen in some little ones now he is totally happy and one year older and i still kinda feel like i m shell shocked all is right with the world lol o posted by heather at 2 20 2010 06 37 00 am 2 comments sunday february 14 2010 i have been away from the blog for a while but all is well despite mother nature s attempt at it we did not in fact get buried in the snow my silly old age claustrophobia tried to set in though i swear that on wednesday while watching the endless coverage of the snow and listening to the forecast for 20 more inches for the night and following day i was feeling very very claustrophobic the house seemed very small and my breathing was a bit labored weird huh don t answer that but we did survive the outside world is very beautiful and we officially have the snowiest winter on record school was closed for a week but all should be well for tuesday and an on time arrival unless there s worry of ice oy the weekend has been interesting it started on friday with my regular spinning group meeting which melded into the olympic kickoff party if only the nbc website had held up this time but as it did for the summer olympics of 2008 the site crashed leaving all those planning to watch via the website out in the cold i quickly called home to ask my sister to push record on the dvr so i eventually got to watch but i d have really enjoyed all the chit chat among friends if nbc had their act together saturday was exciting with a mid day matinee of grease at the national theater downtown it was interesting to see how the story which i came to know in it s movie version and worked as a stageplay the best part was the 5th scene the one with the song grease lighting in it for those that are familiar with the movie you ll remember that the old beatup car gets a makeover during that scene i couldn t figure out how they were going to trade one car for another or how car parts were going to fly around but they did it and it was in a word brilliant there was also a big big taylor hicks love fest during the beauty school dropout scene where he played teen angel the funnies thing was when the scene was going right along and frenchie who s supposed to be really enamored of this cool older guy who s suddenly showed up to serenade her leans in really close gives him the googly eyes and says in the dreamiest voice i voted for you too too funny after the show we stopped by and picked up some steamed lobsters came home made a salad and french bread popped open the wine and had an indulgent delicious meal yum o today was quite the day as well we headed up the road to go to the snow date superbowl sale at cloverhill to say that the sale was a success for the shop would be an understatement it was busy busy busy in there and everyone was running high on the yarn fumes even though i wasn t supposed to be buying anything after pulling a 20 ticket i managed to talk myself into the jojoland melody for the swirl scarf that my mother and sister want to knit with me the trekking hand art sock yarn that i d been eyeing on friday and some gorgeous http www straw com cpy yarns images2 mochi newstripe2010weblg jpg that was just too beautiful to pass up i got two skeins so either socks which i ve been thinking i need to get back into knitting or a shawl will get knit with it it s yummy now i m home to do more spinning and maybe some knitting while i watch the olympics it is after all the knitting olympics too lol o posted by heather at 2 14 2010 02 05 00 pm 1 comments tuesday february 09 2010 snowstorm files day 5 day 5 of the snowstorm brings this more snow school is closed for the kids through the end of the week friday was scheduled to be a teacher professional day aka training in the first place and we ve been instructed to check back in to the website after 4 on thursday i think to see if we will need to report my guess is yes since it s just us adults but that s okay by me i finally made it out of the house today i d been leery because my sister and dad reported messy roads but enough was enough and i went for it since my ex who has the same model car i do made it in to take the boy to dinner last night i figured i d be okay we won t mention that he got stuck on a hill and had to go back and take the smart route out of the neighborhood or anything i made it free and clear we stopped by the post office and tried to go to the library which was closed a stop by mcdonalds finished our run and now we feel much much better good thing too because it s now snowing again there s another storm upon us which will bring mainly snow but has a chance of sleet and freezing rain as well in all we expect maybe 15 more inches and lost of wind whoa we re praying that the power stays on but if worst comes to worse we ll hunker down in the basement den with good ole poppop and his woodburning stove today was momentous in another way i finished the wheel here she is in her glory not the best picture in the fading light so here s a better picture of the wheel portion of the staining that s when i feel i had really gotten the hang of it thank goodness too because i was actually not too happy with some of the pieces there are a few drips and runs but the wheel perfect if i do say so myself everything is in working order and i even spun long draw style pain free to test her out this is some of the stuff i ve been dyeing during the snow i blended a bit of the lime green and brown with my handcards a couple times and got a good blend i think the brown blue will be fabulous my earlier thoughts of blending this romney with some of the lincoln locks i received are quickly dissolving though the romney is so very easy to spin and very very soft yum o labels long draw snow in dc snowstorm spinning wheel posted by heather at 2 09 2010 02 54 00 pm 3 comments monday february 08 2010 cabin fever okay so we are on day 4 of the snowstorm saga and i m getting a bit bored i have plenty to do here at my house it s just not stuff i wanna do lol regardless i did go ahead and tackle my bedroom today i always seem to leave that for last since the mess inconveniences no one but me but it s time i m finding that doing my yoga really helps out my back hip situation and my space is being encroached upon since i refuse to put my laundry away i much prefer leaving it in a stack on top of the off season clothes boxes in the corner and that s what gives me the overflow lack of yoga space the room just ain t big enough for unnecessary piles yesterday my sister and i got lots of dyeing done she really takes to dyeing and found the easter egg colors to be intriguing she kept pulling out more fiber and yarn and asking what was next even though we d run out of containers to dye the new stuff in in all though we tried all methods of dyeing microwave and stove top easter egg dyes and food coloring the food coloring was really really interesting and very controlled you know exactly what color you are getting and the placement was easy peasy here a picture but it s kinda horrible the drying rack sits right in front of the oor in the basement which has windows and it s extremely bright in there right now my main goal yesterday was to get lots of the blue denim and brown done and that s what you see here because i m thinking they ll be nice colors to blend together on my hand cards what do you think i ve washed and dyed almost the whole romney fleece now one wash bag full is in my tub now waiting on more vinegar and i m hoping for a good amount of yarn to come of it tomorrow is another day another day off that is school s been canceled already and there will be another winter storm in the afternoon evening so i m thinking i know what wednesday will look like as well with that said i gotta go make my kid do something other than watch phineas and ferb see ya o labels dyeing fiber easer egg dyes fleece snow in dc snowstorm posted by heather at 2 08 2010 12 33 00 pm 2 comments sunday february 07 2010 snowstorm files day 3 it s over the blizzard warnings were called off yesterday evening around 6 it was still snowing here but clearly winding down we haven t taken any measurements but the news is reporting different totals from different people around the area anywhere from 20 33 inches i think has been reported we are leery of going with the official totals which are taken at reagan national airport the airport is in a low spot for the area and always has a lower total than we have in our backyard of course that s when we actually have a measurable total so whatev the washington post s online link showed 24 5 for camp springs right around the corner from upper mayberry yet only 17 8 for the airport see what i mean here are some of the photos from around our house this morning in the aftermath this is looking out the front door at the carport you can see that there are a couple cars under there my dad made a path out yesterday evening the rest we ll tackle together after breakfast i m sure another view of the front looking more toward the yard and out to the street where wall e cleared a car path last night seriously a backhoe came by pushing and dumping snow in a very methodical manner the guy was awesome but it really looked like wall e to me this is on the deck the egg shaped lump there is the webber grill and that s how much snow is surrounding it it s on the very edge of the deck so the blowing kinda drifted around it but you can see how much snow is surrounding it and that s pretty much how deep the rest of the yard is again the back yard this time looking toward the table that s been moved to the side of the yard you can see a bunch of things piled on top but where the table starts is about hip level for me i m short and all that but that s a lot of snow so how d i pass my time yesterday being that i can t knit or spin and all i decided to play with some fiber messing around on youtube the other day i saw this video from my new friend tara at blonde chicken boutique where she dyed some raw fiber in a canning jar in the microwave using guess what easter egg dyes it was so easy and i d snapped up all the leftover easter egg dye kits at target and the foodlion near my house last year so i figured i d be able to play all day and that s just what i did looky the fiber the romney i just received and washed on friday afternoon from left to right and top back to front bottom there are purple brown blue teal and green i should say that both the teal and green were listed as green on the packages but you know egg dyeing close enough is good enough for them no worries as i plan to card most of these colors together with other colors and blend them the brown i m super excited about and plan on using the rest of the dye tablets today on more fiber i ve got two pounds the purple was a bit wonky and gave some interesting color effects blue in lots of places and a funky amethyst in others nice here s the fiber back on the drying rack after coming out of the dyebaths the colors are top to bottom blue teal orange see below then brown purple and green i also did some lincoln locks in orange on top of the stove but apparently forgot to take pics of that i like it i used a big hank of the lincoln so used 3 orange tablets dissolved in the water then put another crunched up on top so that some parts would be really orange and it worked i m off to fuel up so i can shovel and then i ll be doing more washing and dyeing today o labels 2010 blizzard blizzard warnings dyeing fiber easer egg dyes lincoln romney snowstorm posted by heather at 2 07 2010 05 47 00 am 2 comments about me name heather location upper marlboro maryland united states i am a mommy first and foremost my son is my life i am also committed to being an educator and a good one i teach first grade at my neighborhood school in my spare time i love to knit read and do stuff with my son view my complete profile links google news ravelry edit me previous posts the move our guy is ok how d i do that happy birthday big guy i have been away from the blog for a while but al snowstorm files day 5 cabin fever snowstorm files day 3 snowstorm files day 2 part 1 or blizzard warning snowstorm files archives march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 november 2006 december 2006 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