My little sheep are heading to the farm

I am about to spend two days experiencing farm life...well, really I'm going to watch farm life from my chair, behind a table, demonstrating needle felting and showing off some of my felties.  I have really been looking forward to this weekend and yea! the weather is going to continue to be 'spring like'.

My sheep and I will be at the Jenness Farm Open House in Nottingham both Saturday and Sunday.

Even though Jenness Farm is mainly a goat farm, they do have two new

lambs so in their honor I made a little flock of resting lambs.

                                   Talk again soon:)

Feltin' Fridays

Here's a few projects I've been working-just wanted to share:) 

I am really into sheep right now:)

I finally made a shepherd and a miniature sheep to go with the Nativities.

So sweet and tiny.

This is a little bit different-a big sheep doll:)  This is the wool from

Bittersweet Heritage Farm that I posted about last week.

I haven't listed any of these yet in my Etsy shop but will soon.

                                  

 So Happy Feltin'...

Bittersweet Heritage Farm

Last fall a friend gave to me the gift of two bags of wool that she had bought at a Farmer's Market near her home in Maine. I thought that was the most thoughtful gift she could ever give to me. I am starting to think I have a wool addiction:)  I have pondered for a while how best to use this precious wool and I finally made a little sheep and fell in love with him.  He just felt so perfect, in fact I can barely keep my hands off him because he feels so good to hold. 

As soon as I made two of these sheep I started to worry about whether or not I would be able to replace this wool when I ran out. (I know- pretty silly). So I did a little research and found that I could order online and get the same wool from the very same sheep, Sweet Pea. According to Dyan, the owner of the sheep from Bittersweet Heritage Farm, this wool has a higher (grease) content and is processed a little differently. (That's probably why I keep picking my sheep up and just holding it.) Her sheep are Romneys crossed with Merinos and if you go to her web site you can find out more about her 'girls'. I also recommend her facebook page-it is full of interesting farm events.

So I ordered two more bags of Sweet Pea's wool.

 Oh, and three bars of lavender soap.

My Sweet Pea

I love how you get a picture of the sheep the wool came from. I am looking forward to trying all the

different rovings especially the brown wool from Maeve (just waiting for the shearer).  

Clay Blue Birds - A Friendly Flock

Spring is coming (I think) so I thought I would bring out my little flock of clay blue birds. Two of them are destined to be a part of a friendship gift box.

I noticed that I was starting to have quite a large flock of these birds. I will make  them
but they might not be just right for a project so they have to wait their turn to be used for
something special just for them.

Two little birds - one attached to the lid and the other nestled inside as a special
little gift.

My Kobito

I have a young friend, Callie who was my inspiration and helper in opening my Etsy shop. She helped me especially with the computer hurdles. Not yet twenty and she has a very successful Etsy shop 

(My Kobito) making clay charms for cell phones, computers or key chains. She also is an amazing anime artist. We did some trading and this week I received my charms.  After I sat and oohed and aahed over them I had to share all their cuteness.

How do I pick my favorite?

Isn't her owl so sweet?

I love all the detail.

Check out her shop - she has a large selection of characters to choose from. 

See if you can find your favorite.

Feltin' Fridays

I made some of these animals last spring but then sort of lost interest:(    Since then I have sold several elephants and squirrels so I got back into making them and added the raccoon and skunk that I hadn't made before the 'lost interest' event:)  Then it just flowed into why not add acorns and trees and that is how I ended up in the backyard playing with them on a rock (it helped that it was sunny and warm).

A friendly little forest gathering.

I added these to my Etsy shop after I finished playing with them.

WATCH OUT! A giant Owl.

Normally I don't think black bears worry about owls being dangerous but this guy is very large.

                     Happy Felting:)

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Pineapple Afghan

I lost this book once and had to reorder it. It's getting pretty tattered.

I love the Early American pineapple symbol for hospitality. So imagine my excitement when I found out I could actually crochet this pineapple pattern.  Up until ten years ago I was mainly a Granny Square kind of person.  This will be my sixth pineapple afghan. I made one for my Mom, myself and three of my daughters. I have used three different patterns in this book by Anne Halliday(Leisure Arts). This one I hope to have finished in time to take to our daughter Rachel and family in Papua New Guinea next September.  I know you probably are wondering why anyone living in the tropics would want an afghan but I watched them all run for their sweatshirts whenever a windy rain storm came along so I know they will cuddle up together under an afghan:)

I chose yellow for Rachie because we called her our little Sunshine when
she was a little girl.  Don't count my double crochets because you may find my
mistakes. I try to always go back and redo. Ugh.

I haven't gotten very far since I mainly work on it when traveling. I am going to 

have to get serious about pineapple crocheting real soon.