Three Little Purls



2-Pair Woolen Socks

It's taken quite sometime to learn how to spin and knit.  I've also noticed that people LOVE a quality craft.  Everybody wants to learn, but few actually take the time to venture into something this time consuming.  You definately have to be passionate about this craft in order to go forth with it.  Then....theirs the "doing something with all the yarn" aspect, like learning to knit!

I learned how to spin on a wheel approximately 1 1/2 years ago, a 2 hour lesson. I left a mountain town with a wheel in tow, I brought it home, and the rest is history.  Practice, practice and more practice.  I had an incredible teacher, a real sweet lady.  She would email me the first month and ask, "are you spinning, making yarn?"  AND......if I wasn't, I darn sure was reminded that if I didn't, I wouldn't!  Thus began my huge LOVE of spinning and knitting. 

A lot of women knit, but not many make their own yarn.  Personally, I think that when you spin, you become a part of that yarn, wooven into each strand, pulled tightly into that unique yarn!   Thinking the whole time, "just what other fibers would go good with this particular yarn, should I make a 2-ply or a 3-ply, should I make thin or thick yarn or bumpy yarn........the mind is always engaged.  And so, for me, I couldn't imagine going to a store and "buying yarn."

In this process of learning, I've also learned that if you spin well, people want to buy your yarns (with a small commission attached).  Maybe I'm a bit stingy, but when I raise the wool, shear the wool, skirt and scour the wool, spin and knit the wool, I'm not really diggin' the idea of sharing my hard earned profits with anyone! 

So I've decided that since I already like to spin and knit, I will now knit for profit.  I started a business page on Facebook to announce the new site (I'm still working on the construction of it).  This way I only have to share funds with one person, "The Man," and some sweet sheep! 

If any of "ewe" are interested in purchasing: socks (casual and hiking), scarves, hats or cotton dishcloths/washcloths, drop me a line.  In time, I intend to learn to knit baby items and shawls, at the moment, I do not.  If you are interested in socks, I need a shoe size(USA).  If you're interested in hats, I need a head circumference measurement, this is specific so email me on "how to measure the noggin' " info!


As most of you know, my passion's are many, but my biggest is our sheep!  I love these critters like I love "The Man" (DON'T tell him I told ya that!).  Each one has a very unique personality, some are stubborn, some are cuddly, and some are just plain troublemakers.  But each and every one is loved unconditionally.  Once ya love a sheep, then ya love the fleece/fiber/yarn/clothing!!!!  So for me, this isn't so much about earning a buck or two knitting, this is about my passion............


Janet Frame (quoting some of her prose)

And Francie's father would pick at something else, the way someone who is knitting will pull
at the threads to make a hole, but their father tried to pick
and unpick something inside himself that every year of being alive
had knitted, with the pattern, the purl and plain of time gone
muddled and different from the dream neatness.