After narrowing the field down to merino wool, it didn't take me long to realize that I like Ashland Bay roving best of all. This is completely processed, died and combed merino imported from England. The colors are amazing, and the quality of each piece of roving is always perfect. No dirt. No color variations. Just wonderful. Well, I've collected over a hundred colors of wool --- almost all of them merino. Part of my wool is stored in a cedar chest, but part of it (the colors that I use most often) have been in plastic bags inside of a marvelous old basket. Unfortunately, I've sort of outgrown the basket! Last night, though, Mom gave me two new "under bed shoe storage" zipper bags. Wow! Just the thing for all my wool! It is now sorted by color and tucked away safely --- out of reach of the moths or the kitty cats. Elizabeth was nice enough to suggest that I should have a picture of myself with the wool --- just so that I would be on my blog for once! So, even though I look pretty tired (it was pretty late in the eveing!), there I am. ;)
Felting is a really great hobby. It relaxes me, and the possibilities are endless. We're always coming up with ideas for the next doll or project. What makes the possibilities fun is the variety of colors. And I have quite a variety! Mom, Elizabeth and I have spent hours and hours over the past years going to fiber shows and wool dealers to acquire this variety. I've tried various kinds of wool along the way, too --- everything from Cotswold to Romney to Merino. I also have blends of wool with silk and llama. I've tried felting alpaca and llama fiber, buffalo fiber and cat hair. After years of trying and experimenting, I have decided that I really like merino. It gets poor ratings from felters, usually, because it is so fine that it takes about three times the amount of pokes to felt when compared with Cotswold or Romney. True. It does take a lot longer to felt, but I think that the quality of the finished piece is so worth it. The results are a smooth, clean, firm felt. After narrowing the field down to merino wool, it didn't take me long to realize that I like Ashland Bay roving best of all. This is completely processed, died and combed merino imported from England. The colors are amazing, and the quality of each piece of roving is always perfect. No dirt. No color variations. Just wonderful. Well, I've collected over a hundred colors of wool --- almost all of them merino. Part of my wool is stored in a cedar chest, but part of it (the colors that I use most often) have been in plastic bags inside of a marvelous old basket. Unfortunately, I've sort of outgrown the basket! Last night, though, Mom gave me two new "under bed shoe storage" zipper bags. Wow! Just the thing for all my wool! It is now sorted by color and tucked away safely --- out of reach of the moths or the kitty cats. Elizabeth was nice enough to suggest that I should have a picture of myself with the wool --- just so that I would be on my blog for once! So, even though I look pretty tired (it was pretty late in the eveing!), there I am. ;) Other than sorting through wool, we've been busy getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have most of our Christmas cards addressed, and most of the Christmas boxes about ready for shipping. We're all busy trying to make presents for each other. I'm felting a doll for Elizabeth, and it is coming along very well. More later.
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My "favorite" member of the Clapham Sect. Not very much is known about him, but what is preserved keeps a beautiful memory alive of an exemplary Christian man. William Wilberforce Quote:
May I look to Him for wisdom and strength and the power of persuasion, and may I surrender myself to Him as to the event with perfect submission, and ascribe to Him all the praise if I succeed, and if I fail say from the heart thy will be done. For you Jesus Christ came into the world. For you he lived and showed God’s love. For you he suffered the darkness of Calvary and cried at the last, ‘It is accomplished.’ For you he triumphed over death and rose to new life. For you he reigns at God’s right hand. All this he did for you, though you do not know it yet.
Where there is one, there is a majority of one; and when the rights of the majority take away from the rights of the one, then the many will themselves suffer.
~Henry David Thoreau~ I often think of Bag End. I miss my books, and my armchair, and my garden. You see, that's where I belong. That's home. That's why I came back, because you don't have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.
~ Bilbo Baggins ~ FAVORITE BOOKS & FILMS
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell) Genesis of a Legacy (K. Ham) Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) Scaramouche (Sabatini) Amazing Grace (2007) Bertie & Elizabeth (2002) Farmer's Daughter (1947) Ride Clear of Diablo (1954) Secondhand Lions (2003) Sweethearts (1938) SCARAMOUCHE QUOTES
He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad. The future is to be read with certainty only in the past. Man never changes. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment. PRIDE & PREJUDICE:
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON
KING GEORGE VI "His conduct on the Throne may well be a model & a guide to constitutional sovereigns throughout the world today & also in future generations." "For 15 years George VI was King. Never at any moment in all the perplexities at home & abroad, in public or in private, did he fail in his duties." |