Selling My Spinning Wheels
I have decided to sell a few of my spinning wheels. I don’t use these three very much and gathering dust is not what they were meant for. Ashford Country Spinner 2 for sale. Barely used. 1 bobbin. Assembled and nicely finished with wood butters and light wax. Pick up in 49446. $650 2. SOLD…
Wild Flower Textured Art Yarn Now in the Shop
I just listed a new art yarn colorway in the shop. I have been working on this colorway for a while now. The inspiration of this yarn was a giveaway in honor of Honey bees and Beekeepers. It reminded me of the Wild Flowers that bees use to create honey. The dominant color through out…
Leicester Longwool Sheep at Alba Ranch
The Leicester Longwool Sheep have arrived. Just a handful for fiber since I have become enamoured with spinning Leicester locks.
Art Yarn Collection
I have been spinning and spinning art yarn on my new Ashford JUMBO Espinner since January. I wanted to create an Art Yarn Collection of colorways I dye myself and can duplicate close enough for mutiple skeins to work together while still keeping each skein its own unique self. I have been enjoying using the…
Iced Sangria Textured Lockspun Art Yarn
I created a new colorway of Textured Art Yarn for the shop. This is definitely a farm yarn as the beautiful chocolate Argentine llama fleece was grown here at Alba Ranch. I lockspun white mohair lockes into Sangria’s fleece and thread plyed it all with a fine laceweight alpaca boucle yarn. There is so much…
CVM and BFL Lockspun Textured Art Yarn
Do you remember this CVM and BFL Lockspun Textured Art Yarn? Well that yarn is now this…..
A Return to the Ashford Country Spinner 2
I have recently returned to my Ashford Country Spinner 2 wheel and decided to spin some rather fine singles on it. I know that “they” say you can’t do that but I decided “they” were wrong. It is a bobbin led wheel and as long as I take my time, I can put in enough…
Goat Milking Machine and Antique Desk
This weekend we finally got the milk machine put together. I have been gathering photos, instructions, bits and pieces and all the various things we would need to do this. There were a few problems with some of the bits so I had to go back to the hardware store several times to get ones…