Just a quick post today while I show off ‘Tradition’. It’s a crazy carded single ply of wool/cotton/denim that I spun up last week, with little embroidered vintage quilt hearts spun in. I sent it off to a friend as a gift, but I’m really feeling the need to make more like this. I think they would hit home with the ‘primitives’ crowd, among others:

I’m also thinking about making up little ’spinner’s goody’ packages for other novelty spinners, to sell on my web site. It would be little packages of things that would go together nicely in a yarn like beads, vintage lace or trims, quilty pieces, felt cut outs, needle and wet felted goodies, strips of chenille from old blankets, thread I have kicking about, etc. I don’t know whether I’d incorporate fibers or batts (yet) but maybe as a second step. For now, it would be a good way to help me ‘de-stash’ some of this vintage stuff I have floating around. Then I’ll be allowed to go to more yard and tag sales this spring (if I make room for new ‘old’ stuff).

Enough for now…off to buy groceries before the girl gnaws my arm off…the cupboard is bare!