HERE ARE OUR VENDORS FOR SPIN 2010!!!

Alegre Alpacas presented by Nora Weisenhorn - Colored alpaca fleeces: black, brown, fawn - Alegre Alpaca's Web site


The Bellwether presented by Amelia Garripoli - spindles, fiber and more!Find out more at:  The Bellwether's Web Site

BJS Fiber Creations presented by Barbara Seeler  -   BJ's specialty is Merino/Tencel 50/50.  She loves to spin, knit and wear the socks she makes and was on a 15 year quest to find a fiber for socks that would and could not be worn out by wearing.  When she found the 50/50 mixture she figured she should share it with others.  Couple that with her love of color and chemistry background and retirement business was born.  By the way, Barbara  guarantees that the 50/50 mixture will NOT wear out.  If it does (and no one has yet taken her up on this offer), she will replace the fiber for free.

She also sells hand-painted silk in a variety of forms, hankies, bells, roving, noil etc.  In addition to the dyed fibers, she have an extensive inventory of alpaca, wool/silk blends, wool/mohair blends.  Plant fibers include ramie, hemp, flax and cotton.  As an aside, if you like to spin cotton, she has 5 different naturally colored cotton fibers, with and deseeded. (she grew the cotton in California).

Chris Condrad presenting Kakishibu dye, book, kakishibu dyed items (including yarn and silk scarves), mohair roving, weaver's roving (mohair felted around a jute core), raw mohair and washed mohair locks.  The Kakishibu Web Site

Country Time Alpacas presented by Lesa Berdoy,   Alpaca: washed fiber ready for carding, rovings, fiber for felting, and some alpaca yarn.  Country Time Alpaca's Web Site

Graydown Alpaca Ranch presented by Steven & Karen Vanderwerff.  Steve and Karen are returning vendors from the last Spin-In. 

Marietta Shetlands from Bellingham – John Park & Tina Thomsen-Park -  Shetland fleeces, processed Shetland fiber.  We are sharing our booth with

WashingtonWooldotNet a Washington State co-op of fiber growers.  There may be angora, dorset, etc…  Web site: WashingtonWooldotNet

NW Handspun Yarns from Bellingham presenting Fiber, combs, drum carders, wheels, drop spindles, Schacht Cricket loom, Earthues dyes, Judith Mackenzie dyes and more!  Web site:  NW Handspun Yarns

RainShadow Farm presented by Marcia Adams.   Beautiful naturally dyed, blended and carded Coopworth Rovings for spinning and weaving.

Rosebud -  Stitchmarkers, cable needles, soaps, pendants presented by Rose Nerad

Heather Seevers: Yarn, boa's jewelry, drop spindles, buttons, shopping bags

Spincycle Yarns - for hand-dyed, hand-spun yarns and patterns. Find out more at Spincycleyarns.com

Wildrose Farm presented by Nanette Leaman.  Providing raw Wensleydale and Border Leicester and crosses of the 2 and processed wool too.  Find out more here

January 9 Meeting in Burlington

We met January 9 in the big meeting room at the Burlington Public Library.  It is a very nice, light & airy room.

There were over 25 people at this meeting!!!

Deb brought the new Lazy Kate she had gotten for Christmas -









This lovely lacy item is a neck warmer

 

 

Nicki was nice enough to model this coat (not hers, but it fit perfectly!)  Nice to have you back Nicki! 

We had some lovely woven items to show off too.

And Felted Hats

And Itty Bitty sock ornaments
















Speaking of felted items - that talented Deb Lacy made this cute PINK flamingo for her folks

How could you pass up a face like this?

A new venture for one of our members........

And last but not least, the cotton that Nancy's friend Casey brought back to her from Hawaii.

December meeting at Nancy's Farm

We had a great time at our December 12 meeting with members old and new




























Nancy G. brought out the pelt that she had processed. It got lots of Oohs and Aahs!














There were a whole lot of beautiful items that were shared at the meeting - lots of things that were destined for Christmas presents.











Hand dyed, hand spun and hand knit - you couldn't get any more beautiful than this hat!





























Unless it was this lacy shawl...















Some hand spun that had been overdyed to create a beautiful colorway

















Knitting with wire - who'd a thought?

















This lovely hand hand spun will be woven into material to make a coat.










An Elizabethan style neck warmer - soft and very warm.












A new knitter's milestone, one mitten done.














And two little bitty pairs of socks!












Another lacy shawl.
















And a beautiful woven scarf
















Ah, the lucky friend or family member to find this lovely pin in their stocking.


















Another warm winter hat












And more skeins to handspun to show off.














If you click on this to biggify it you can see the sparkly metallic yarn.



















And of course no meeting is complete without our potluck lunch.

































Barking Sheep wine - the perfect complement to pizza...











The gift exchange included this small project basket with some nice tea and a mystery novel to round out a cold winter's evening.

See you all on January 9th in Burlington!

Show and Tell from our November meeting!

Here are all the beautiful show and tell items from our November meeting.  This spiral scarf was crocheted with bits and pieces from her stash.  I can't wait to try this easy pattern that looks so elegant when it is finished! 

Deb finished her sweater. 

It is really gorgeous.














Several people wanted to make off with these pretty pink felted slippers. 

This hooded caplet is just perfect to keep your head and neck warm under helmets. 

We even had a few pieces of woven material for show and tell this time. 

This hat was destined for my church auction - I finished it 10 minutes before we had to leave! 

This hat and wrist warmer set are crocheted from handspun Targhee wool from Huckleberry knits.  The colorway is called Winesap, and it has all shades of green, red and brown, like the apples themselves.