Alba Ranch (Melisa)

Do you see the Bee in the flowers? 🐝

Echinachea. So lovely. 💜

My new Monochord Chair is here!!! Now for Sound Healing Therapy in the Lavender Gardens.

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Melissa Lavender (white) and Hidcote Lavender (purple). The flowers are popping here at Alba Ranch.

Unicorns do exist!

No wait...is she flipping me off?

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I can not remember exactly. I was a medium yarn perhaps as light as a DK weight. Darn if I can remember which sheep breed. Commercial spun yarn from the mill...Best guess is a Correlidale or Targhee. But don't quote me. 😂 Sheep wool for sure not mohair.

I am ready for "Wander the Garden" tours and meditative walks for relaxation and stress relief. My new Garden boots arrived!!! 💜 My old boots are just plain boring. Now I'm ready to walk lavender terraces and stone path in the stone circle.

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Snow. Snow. And more snow.

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Thank you 💜

Thank you. They are eye catching. It was my first time with those.

Textured yarn

Dyed sheep wool

Handspun yarn

Turning hand dyed mohair and long wool locks into art yarn. Lovely textured handspun yarn for weaving, knitting and crochet. I love to make art yarn that you can use.

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Zinnia

Zinnia

Zinnia

Zinnia Flowers. Can't wait to grow these again. Spring? Where are you...as it is snowing. AGAIN!

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Thank you 💜

I tried warping with 5 DPI orig but blobs got caught. I didn't want to pull and force it or my spiral ply might break. So I switched to the 2.5 DPI. Still had to work occasional blob or curly lock through. When the thick yarn passed through a slot it was easier but the holes were harder.

No they did. My heddle is a 2.5 DPI. So holes and slots are big. If one of the baubles was a little too big, I worked it through as it is squishy. But yes look at the white one warped with no weaving. Many big white blobs went through heddle. Just need bigger holes and slots.

I have 2 harness Union loom that is set up for 12 DPI for rug weaving. Once I work through 25+ rugs worth of warp already on it that came on it, I intend taking that reed off and installing the 8 dpi or the 4 DPI I had made for it. Than switch my heddles to bigger eyes for fat yarn 🧶

Few other shots warped and weaving on Ashford rigidheddle with a 2.5 DPI reed. 💜

Yes I used it for the warp. My weft was another lockdown mohair that I spiral plied with a commercial spun fine lace mohair boucle yarn. So very textured.

I used my 2.5 DPI heddle. Ashford loom.

Neck Scarf

Weaving on the loom

Handspun yarn skeins

For the times, when you don't want the long tails of a scarf. 🧣

Neck scarf. Hand dyed fiber, that I handspun into chunky art yarn and wove into a cozy for your neck.

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A little cozy for those feeling the cold 🥶

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Can't remember if Ashford has that dent that or not. I know they go up to 12.5 dent but I weave in 5 dent most times, occasional 2.5 and 7.5. I love in either 10 or 12.5 ONCE and swore never again. 😂

Handspun Textured yarn. I adore this yarn for weaving and creating textured things that still have movement.

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Springy yarns are such fun to spin. Never quite know what they will turn into one the yarn is set. But oh the way they feel in the hand. I get that with CVM. Never spun this breed.

I love to lock spin it even more where I just fluff it a little and keep the lock structure. Makes fab textured yarn which weaves up with such interest. 💜

Congrats!

I can't wait to walk my stone paths, sit on the heart stone 💜 in the center of the Lavender Stone Circle and smell the thyme. It was buried in snow last night in the light of the moon...sleeping 🌙

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Just needed something pretty to look at. Over 2 pds of yarn. Them is some heavy bobbins!!

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I am always happiest with the plastic curved one that came with my Ashford rigid heddle. It has always worked the best. Think I have this one too, though. Too straight a handle for hooking the yarn.