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Island Holiday

By Pam, on April 10th, 2009

I’ve been to an island! OK — not the warm, tropical kind. North Haven is just an hour and a bit out by ferry, and Becky & Bill live there year round. Of course its population grows by leaps and bounds in the summer but at this time of year it’s fairly quiet. Becky met me and as we drove from the ferry to the [….read more]

Sorting Fleeces

By Pam, on January 22nd, 2009

There are still some fleeces that haven’t been sent off from fall shearing and they need to go! It’s been too cold to stay in the barn for any length of time and the fleeces are impossible to unroll so I’ve brought some into the studio to warm up. We did a very good job of skirting them at shearing so there isn’t too much [….read more]

Losing Lauri (to the PC)

By Pam, on December 18th, 2008

Today was my last haircut with Lauri B. She’s closing her shop and joining the Peace Corps. It’s wonderful that she can do this, but I’m missing her already. It’s going to be interesting trying to find another person who can deal with my locks the way she has for so many years. But maybe change will be good… Hopefully, I’ll find someone in Portland [….read more]

Columbus Day Open House

By Pam, on October 11th, 2008

Here's Nina milking one of her goats…they're just the sweetest girls an their milk is YUM!

Our local craft guild had their annual open house today. I had to clean up and organize the yarn & rovings in the studio which is always a good thing and I had to bake -ugh! I’m not a baker…hate making cookies. But I made some pumpkin [….read more]

Painting

By Pam, on September 4th, 2008

here's a blue-green colorway

For a couple of years, I’ve had a bunch of skeins hanging around that were dyed and came out a not very attractive grey color so I decided to paint over them. It’s been fun — I guess partly because I felt as though I couldn’t make them any worse than they already were. The results were very nice [….read more]