Photo-journalism
Posted by Lanea on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
My new camera is so sweeeeet. It’s tiny and comfortable in my hand, has some built in memory, room for memory sticks, a decent lens, and good battery life. I will hug him and kiss him and love him and squeeze him and make him a felted case and name him George. The Mavica has been cast aside. Maybe the dog wants it. Or the cat. The cat is very artsy. The dog is more with the fartsy.
So, a retrospective visual review of my Sheep and Wool hunting and gathering experience, in order of acquisition:
The beautiful teabowl Virginia gave me: I heart it.
Mary gave me a fantastically gorgeous blue and black raven necklace that she and Crazy Tony (no relation*) made, but I couldn’t photograph it well because I wouldn’t take it off, and "Self-portrait of Crazy Woman with necklace" needs work. In fact, I’m afraid that if I post a photo of said necklace, someone will chase me down and try to take it.
The Peace Fleece rovings, in blues, greens, and purples:
The Scary scary Viking Combs**, with rather raw Rambouillet in their teeth:
The yarn I accidentally bought from our neighbors in the next booth, who run a youth program that teaches kids to dye and knit and weave and tend livestock:
The kids in the program dyed this yarn, and the colors are wonderful and the skeins are generous. The solid blue skeins were $10 per 200 yards, the blue-green were $11.50 per 200 yards, and the big blue-green hand-painted skein was $23 for 400 yards. So you see why I was forced to buy this yarn–I couldn’t afford not to, especially since the program is a charity and all. It would have been wrong of me to walk away.
You can’t tell from here, but Ranga, one my toddler friends, made the second blue-green skein into a "magic skein" with the addition of some ice-cream. So guess what I will be swatching and washing this week. Tell me, don’t you think the solid blue and the blue-green would be lovely together? I’m having a tough time getting my mind around knitting up all that wool in 80 degree weather, but I need to wind off and swatch with the magic skein toooot sweeeeet, so it doesn’t draw magic moths. Whatever shall I make. I may be legally required to make a ribby-cardi at this point. But I think I would prefer buttons–antler buttons. Time to get searching for the two-toned sweater of my dreams.
* Crazy Tony (no relation) is an Australian guy who lives in Canada and carves beautiful things out of antler and stone. I met him through Mary years ago at the Potomac Celtic Festival.
**With which I will defend myself if anyone comes after the necklace. Seriously–don’t make me post a picture of the combs with "JaneDoe-wool" in them. I’m crazy you know. It says so right at the top.
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$111.50 for 200 yards? I assume that is a typo? $11.50? Charity or not $111.50 is WAY too much to spend on yarn.
Yep–that’s a typo. I’m not that crazy.