a simple yarn

So what d’ya do when himself is out of the country and you’ve got no one to mind the kiddies which prevents you from going to the monthly love-to-get-together-for-an-excuse-to-knit-and-chat Stitch ‘n’ Bitch gathering? You do the next best thing, of course…

Fibre-Friend-Holly was in the same predicament as Other-Half was unavailable for kiddie-detail. So, we dumped all the children into a room at my house and had Fibre-Fun-Day! We set aside our knitting needles, coerced Tangelled Angel to join us and sat among 2 spinning wheels (with a spare in the corner), drum carder, bags of fleece in various stages of processing, cups of tea, biscuits and crumbs from lunch!

Actually, to be more accurate, We-Three locked ourselves in the kitchen/dining room while the The-Kiddies-Four had the run of the house, it being drizzly outside.


You’ve seen the drum carder in action (see 13 June), so instead, a closeup of F-F-H’s brightly-coloured-looks-rather-Mediterranean roving.

I think Ma Ingalls would be proud of the homespun yarn production going on today!