I was eating lunch at a restaurant in New York the other day and saw this super cute little sheep I meant to share immediately! A sheep made of cauliflower, olives and beans! I like it!
Archive for the ‘Process’ Category
Veggie Sheep
February 15, 2011
Long Winter
December 7, 2010
It has been a while since I updated here as the wool is all out of my hands! Jennifer is hard at work cleaning and blending the Dorset and Icelandic so I’m left to weather another winter with my smaller crochet work to keep me company! Soon enough though the bags of beautiful fluffy wool [...]
Progress!
August 12, 2010
I’m sure you have all been wondering, where’s the yurt?! Well, we’re making progress. The biggest issue we have is that we’re working with two different kinds of wool and we’re blending them to try to make the most felty combination. In order to do that we need to do some trials! Those are each [...]
The Yurt Alert Goes on Vacation — Guatemala Style
July 16, 2010
Pardon my absence from the blog — I’ve had a remarkably busy summer so far! Last week my mother and I traveled to Guatemala with my non-profit of choice, Build a Nest. We went to visit our micro-bartering groups in Guatemala City and the Lake Atitlan region. While Guatemala has low numbers of sheep and [...]
The Wool is Clean…sort of
June 9, 2010
Great progress was made on the yurt this Memorial Day! I took out all three HUGE bags of Dorset from the barn, set up a ramshackle skirting table and voila — we got to work. We listened to some good tunes and while my mom and dad tried to stay away and not help me [...]
Sheep, Morocco Style
April 27, 2010
When I left for Morocco I knew that I’d be meeting with the weavers in Midelt that Nest works with on product design and development but I never really stopped to think where their wool came from until we got there. It turns out that Hayat and her cooperative don’t own their own sheep but [...]
Busy Sunday!
March 1, 2010
Today I made some major headway on the yurt’s donor rewards because I had the energy and extra hands of my new yurt intern, Cady! As of last weekend I had finished all of the individual mini-yurt gifts and had begun work on the sets of 15…but still had hundreds more mini yurts to go! [...]
Woman After My Own Heart
December 9, 2009
One of my favorite things is coming across people who are also crocheting/knitting with large “yarn” or things that they improvise as yarn! Via Design*Sponge last night I came upon Jean Lee of Ladies and Gentleman. Jean is making what she calls the Mega Doily seen in the photos below out of cotton rope. Look [...]
Weekend Sheep
October 30, 2009
It’s Friday evening, the fundraising has hit 35% and it’s Halloween tomorrow — how does the day get better? The answer is with a peaceful photo of sheep on the water from Swans Island. I got some scary news on the wool we have up in NH today — the mice have found it and [...]
Sheep: Shear Joy
October 28, 2009
Today I’ve been getting a lot of yurt love, largely driven from a great write up on the project over at The Daily Green! As a way of keeping my karma in check I wanted to post about Heifer International, which, if yurt’s aren’t your donation of choice, allows you to “gift” animals to people [...]
