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Spinning…

By Linda on October 3, 2009 in Grade 6, Michaelmas Physics, Spinning

Life has been really busy over the last few weeks, I love being busy but alas I have not blogged but now that I am almost through all the orders and custom orders for my shop I have a chance to do some blogging and visit all your lovely blogs that I have been missing 🙂

We have been busy with:

Jen built and oiled my new wheel, she just loved the process of putting this wheel together for her mama and she has been inspired to launch in to a project all about wool and fiber, she is having so much fun learning about the wool process from sheep to finished spun product, I will blog about this when she has finished. It has been a totally self motivated research project and I am so thrilled about this…

So here is my wheel with some BFL and Tussah silk roving on it from New Zealand, what a lovely roving…. My first spin on my new wheel…

Here is the finished spin, I plied it back on itself 🙂

We celebrated Michaelmas, sang songs, read stories and made swords and shields and dressed up as knights… Kye especialy loved this day and wearing his cape…(which he still wears).

Jen is also learning about Physics at the moment, here she is playing Do RE Me Far… with water in glasses and performing an accoustics experiment. She is trying the see if she can play the tune, Do Re Me Far… by varying the amounts of water in the glasses. She did get it right and this was a lot of fun. If a glass has a small amount of water in it, the sound is high when struck gently with a fork, if more liquid is added it will deepen or lower the sound coming off the struck glass 🙂

I have also finally opened my local South African online wool and knitted Waldorf inspired toy shop, it is called Pure Wool, besides my own handspun yarn, I stock yarn spun and also naturally dyed by many talented spinners and dyers around South Africa. If there is a yarn on this shop that you like and you live overseas, please email me to purchase, I do have Paypal avaliable for overseas buyers.

Here is the link, www.purewool.co.za

Have a great weekend everyone,

Warmly

Linda

Roman Mosiacs and a Giveaway…

By Linda on July 18, 2009 in Giveaways, Grade 6

It is still very cold here in South Africa and Erin and Caiden were very excited to discover that the bird bath water was frozen the other morning, so Erin brought it inside to show me and then returned it to melt for the birds.

I have also been knitting up a storm over the last few days and here is Kye’s wool hat, so warm and I used the Soule Mama pattern, it fits him so snugly. I am almost finished Caiden’s, he wants me to knit ear flaps on the sides and I am almost finished….

We are still enjoying Ancient Rome and the Romans made the most beautiful mosiacs’. We found some old tiles in the garage and made some of our own mosiacs’, the children really enjoyed this art project and are still busy with more…

Jenna made an aqueduct:

Erin made a flower:

Caiden designed a man and a house…

We used:

An old tile to build on.

Broke different coloured tiles to design our mosiac with.

Glued the mosiac to the tile with glue.

We will grout the mosaic as soon as the glue is dry.

We have felt very fortunate this week, because last Sunday a very kind wonderful woman gave these two sewing machines to Jenna and Erin! She no longer sews and when she heard that our girls loved to sew, she phoned my mom-in-law and told her she wanted to give them to my girls, wow! We are planning something very special for her indeed to thank her…

I Was Featured on Squidoo…

It has also been a very exciting week for my knitted toy shop because it was featured on a Squidoo Lens. Thank you so much Ann, I am so grateful to you for writing about my shop… http://www.squidoo.com/Fiber-Arts if you just page down on the link, you will see Mamma4earth under knitting…

YARN GIVEAWAY:

The winner is:

pumpkinhaus said…
Beautiful yarn!!
July 18, 2009 6:13 AM

As some of you know, I have opened a yarn shop http://www.mamma4earthyarns.etsy.com/

and I am enjoying this very much, I am having a giveaway marking the opening. I am giving away this beautiful Rainbow Yarn, this skein holds 100 grams / 3.5 ounces and it is so beautiful and soft …. It is a handspun, hand dyed skein. Don’t forget to leave me your email so I can reach you when you win. This giveaway is open to the whole world…

Just leave a comment to enter and if you have a chance, would you mind mentioning and linking to it in one of your blog posts. Thanks so much…

Have a wonderful weekend everyone…

Warmly

Linda

Jenna’s Knitting Project

By Linda on January 20, 2009 in Grade 6, Knitting

Jenna has decided to start her new knitting project, it is a pair of Hand / Wrist warmers (fingerless gloves). She is knitting from a pattern from ‘Last-Minute Knitted Gifts’ by Joelle Hoverson.

She is having such fun because she has never knitted in the round before and now she has knitting on 4 needles, down pat. (I think she is going to knit all of us a pair for winter, Caiden and Erin have already chosen their colours, Yay!).