Mozzie, the Moswolt M1 Spinning Wheel
Last week I test drove a unique old artisan spinning wheel. A Moswolt M1 Spinning Wheel. Meet Mozzie….. Mozzie is a bit clunkity and talks and chatters, but he is a workhorse beast. It is the first single treadle wheel I have ever owned. He has one speed ratio of about a 4:1. His orifice…
Wild Flower Honey Lockspun Textured Art Yarn
Recently Alba Ranch was part of a giveaway with 5 other artists. Wild Flower Honey Art Yarn Kit was Alba Ranch’s part of the Grand Prize for the Sweeter Than Honey Giveaway. The giveaway featured six artists in various mediums all celebrating bee keepers, bee keeping, and the honey bee. The Grand Prize was a…
Carnival and Purple Passion Lock Spun Textured Yarn
Got my shawl photographed this evening. I used a giant Tunisian Crochet Hook and a modified double crochet made up stitch I created to get that lacey open effect. Tunisian Crochet Textured Yarn. All homespun yarn was lock spun and hand dyed. The fiber is Leicester Longwool. I lock spun and thread plyed with a…
Chloe, my heart
May 26, 2004 – August 2, 2019 I lost my darling Chloe today. I have dreaded this day for years. She was born deaf in Scotland in a litter of 8 pups. I did not figure out that she was deaf though until she was nearly 7 weeks old. I trained her with sign language…
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…
A birthday surprise….
My birthday was a bit of a surprise and shock. My entire goat herd except one bred late, all kidded in less than a 24 hour period. AND IT SNOWED 8 INCHES!! So all babies had to come into the house to save their lives, this broke the bond with their moms and I had…
Ike, an Anatolian Shepherd. Livestock Guardian Dog
October 2014 – October 19, 2018 Ike is an Anatolian Shepherd dog born in with his goat herd. He has guarded goats his entire life. He came to live with us when he was almost 2 years old. He had next to no socialization or training but had been a working livestock guardian dog. When…
Two go and One arrives- Tessa Jane, Domino, Llama cria
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 was a sad day and a not so sad day. Tessa Jane (December 31, 1999- September 22, 2015) Tessa was my first Border Collie ever. Charlie and I had been married about 2 months and he had to go offshore for his very first trip offshore after we…