Ode to the Fiber Fest, cont…

yum – Mocha Barny

The wooly goodness has left the BarnYard!

So far, I have the sleeves and back done on Missy Scoop. To bring it out of the Country and into the City, I gave the pieces (as I finished them in turn cause for some reason I couldn’t wait!) a hot soapy sink bath, then several rinses.

This could be called Ultimate Wet Blocking…

Then I spread it out to size on my rug and let it dry.

I’m diggin’ the Dk Olive on the Natural Grey – the ribbing has a slighty wooly-er, felt-y-er texture going on and contrasts nicely with the almost tweedy, mocha bod…

I’m also keeping track of how much yarn I’m using by weighing it with my new best friend, Mr. Digital Scale…

…see all entries here in the Complete Notes: Barny Yarny…

Updated Yarn Lists Here:

Scoop du Jour

TWIST

Ode to the Fiber Fest, cont…

Picture it, the barn that is: hay, critters, pens, dirt floor, boots,
wood, and more…

Move the wool to the mill – truck, shear, bundle, stack and spin…

Get it in my suitcase at the fiber fest – truck, tent, dirt, hay, sneeze, table, bag, ground (while I enjoy some fried dough)…

After all this, one just has to ask the question:

How Barny IS It?

just l@@k @all that dirt!~!

Well, my little city friends, we are giving this
3 ‘s out of a possible 4…

We LOVE THAT!

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1 – : mule spun scored @the LYS

2 – ‘s: hand-painting removed some of the field grass and hay

3 – ‘s: has barely been touched by human hands

4 – ‘s: still on the Sheep’s Back

And the Best News for my 3Barny Wool is that after it got a soapy hot water DUNK, I was rewarded with this:

a nice, soft, beautiful piece of wooly goodness.

A little of my own elbow grease and I have something I can’t get anywhere else!

Ode to the Fiber Fest

Crispy weather now beckons me back to the Barn.

Barn Yarn that is.

And once I got there, it was a case of Lost and Found! Now who (or maybe How/Why/WTF) would lose yarn? (Now we’re not talking about the naughty projects that might have landed under the sofa or the mis-dyed skanks, ah skeins that find their way into Closet Oblivion.)

Dirty Little Secret: Who would lose yarn? ME – I’ve done it before, right about this very same week, September 23, to be exact, and It TOO was Barn Yarn – some fine fine CormoCross. What’s really weird, is that all the other entries in the blog from that week have a Daily link on the calendar here, But NOT THAT DAY! Creepy MT rears its Halloweenie Head…

But I digress – I am going up to Michigan the week after next and those Sirens are a callin’ – the very same sirens that make me make Holiday Sweaters are now hammerin’ on me to make a nice little casual Walking the Dog Sweater.

SO I’m makin’ a Wool Scoop du Jour.

AND because I could only find SOME of the yarn that I thought would be nice, I’m combining it with some other yarn and it will be two-toned: Dark Olive and Natural Sheep Grey.

And here’s where the Ode to the Fiber Fest begins – this is typical yarn that you will find all over the country from yer MomEtPop herders. I believe there are only so many mills that spin! SO regionally, you have places where everyone brings their fleece after shearing and it magically twists up into wonderful 2 and 3-ply Barn Yarn!

The Natural Grey (actually looks very brown to me) Worsted is from Chester Farms, in Virginia. I saw them first at Maryland Sheep and Wool – their booth one of the first you find after you entered (2004) and it was stacked to the rafters with yarny goodness. Carolyn got some, I believe, pretty lilac wool cotton. I left empty handed but wandered round and round and round enthralled by the yarny wooly smell…

I did fall into their black hole, mail orderstyle, this late summer – got some black too! Gonna make a Black Aran Cardi (quick call the Priest – if we start the Exorcism now, we will save Time later!)

The Dark Olive is this

from one of my first dyeing attempts, back in November of last year. I have LOST TWO SKEINS of this yarn (seen here pre-dyed, in its natural Barney state). If you see it wandering around in a field at Rhinebeck, please email me here…

…see all entries here in the Complete Notes: Barny Yarny