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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Wool’ Category
The Wool is Clean…sort of
June 9, 2010
New Little Friend
May 21, 2010
May has flown by in a hurry and I’ve had my hands full of crochet hooks! I also celebrated my 26th birthday this week and while I have lots to share with everyone — the number one thing is that my parents got me a little French vintage sheep toy that is too cute! Look [...]
Massachusetts Sheepshearing Festival
April 28, 2010
This past weekend, back in Boston obviously, was the Massachusetts Sheepshearing Festival out in Waltham at Gore Place. Similar to the recent Woolapalooza event there were sheepshearing demonstrations of both the electic and old-school variety. There were also sheep — everywhere! Look how cute that little guy is after he got his haircut! It’s interesting [...]
Woolapalooza
March 28, 2010
Yesterday, Cady (yurtern), my friend Leah and I went to Drumlin Farm in Lincoln to attend their annual Woolapalooza — an educational day all about wool, how it gets from animal to sweater, and more. We met some cute sheep, some new lambs, and saw live shearing and skirting too! This guy was an awesome [...]
National Crochet Month
March 2, 2010
I feel good about my commitment to National Crochet Month as I’ll be spending most of my free time crocheting away in the land of mini-yurts but more importantly I didn’t know that it was National Crochet Month until today sadly — thanks be to Molly Made for my crochet-ucation! The Crochet Guild of America, [...]
Heaven is a Cold Day at the Farm
February 8, 2010
Yesterday my mom and I ventured up to Marlow, NH to Mack Hill Farm as I wrote about last week. We were wholey underprepared for the awesomeness that is Lisa’s farm but wow were we happily surprised. After getting lost trying to find the farm we pulled into Lisa and Frank’s driveway to see a [...]
Peabody Essex Museum
February 5, 2010
At the Peabody Essex Museum yesterday we saw some amazing woolly pieces I had to share. We drove up there around lunch time to see the Iris Apfel exhibit before it closed this weekend — which was a great decision, her clothing and style is inspirational! The museum had organized the exhibit into five theme [...]
Mack Hill Farm
February 1, 2010
The Yurt Alert has done it again — helping me make woolly connections left and right! Last week I began emailing with Lisa over at Mack Hill Farm in Marlow, NH. Turns out she has wonderfully fluffy, amazing Icelandic Sheepies whose wool she is willing to share for the yurt project! I studied up on [...]
Born To Knit
December 5, 2009
Some articles written about our yurt project have called it a knit house, I’ve self-defined it as a wooly igloo, others call it a sweater house — whatever you call it I’m just glad everyone’s talking about it! So whether you know your knit from your crochet or not I really appreciate the support — [...]
The Beginnings…
October 16, 2009
I know you all have been greatly anticipating pictures of the first 200 pounds of wool and they’re finally here! The money I’m raising through Kickstarter currently is to pay for all of the wool, processing it will need to go through to become feltable fleece, and additional materials. As you can see, I already [...]
