New Goats Milk Soap!

Handmade Pumpkin Spice Sheep Goat's Milk Soap This bar is a large bar of approximately 4 1/4 oz of Pumpkin Spice Goats Milk Soap. Each bar was individually poured into a Sheep Soap Mold. Then when cooled were individually wrapped to preserve the soap. Ingredients: Glycerin, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Lauric Acid; Purified Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sorbitol, Triethanolmaine, Sodium Chloride, Goat's Milk Powder, EDTA, Titanium Dioxide, Pumpkin Spice Oil Fragrance, Orange Dye.

Knitting at the crack of dawn

I couldn't sleep this morning so I got up and went downstairs and started knitting around 5:20 AM on my red and white shawl. I'm not exactly sure just how many rows I knitted in 1 hour and 39 minutes but I now have 164 stitches on this shawl. The hearts on this shawl are really starting to make the shawl look nice. I find myself adding more hearts 2 rows after I finished a complete heart. The hearts are spaced fairly evenly over the shawl. I even have some interlocking hearts added in.

After I finished 1 hour and 39 minutes of knitting on this shawl I stopped to fix myself some breakfast, fold some laundry, and wash the dishes. Then I started in knitting on my Frankenstein Clown Socks. I now have the heel finished on the mate and have started working on the leg of the sock. I sat and knitted on these for 1 hour and 40 minutes. I completed 35 rows on this sock during this time.

Now that its 9:33 AM I need to put another load into the washer, make the bed (now that hubby is up), put the dishes away, then head off to the bank. Once I'm finished with the bank hubby wants to go and get his hair cut, get the oil changed on the car, pick up 2 new kennels at Petco for 2 of our dogs (the kennels they are sleeping in are just too small for them now), then go over to Wal-mart to look for 2 lamps (for our bedroom). After that, when we get home I can sit at my spinning wheel and spin up some more yarn, and weave on my weaving loom.

I know that I will be tired come 9:00 PM tonight! Well, I sure hope so anyway's.

Merry Christmas from Spinning Ginny's

I would love to take this time to wish all my friends and Customers a very Merry Christmas. I've had a wonderful time these past 5 years knitting on socks, shawls, scarves, spinning up wool into yarn, weaving scarves, and making goats milk soap. I hope to continue doing these items for you all for a long time to come. Thank you again for being great friends and customers.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

Ginny

New Item in Store

Handmade Candy Cane Goats Milk Soap: This bar is a large bar of approximately 4 1/2 oz of Candy Cane Goats Milk Soap. Each bar was individually poured into a Candy Cane Soap Mold, then individually wrapped to preserve the Soap. Ingredients: Glycerin, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Laurie Acid; Purified Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sorbitol, Triethanolmaine, Sodium Chloride, Goat's Milk Powder, EDTA, Titanium Dioxide, Holiday Candy Oil Fragrance, Santa Red Dye.

Available at: www.spinningginny.com

Limited Time Only!

New Goats Milk Soap

Last Tuesday I ordered new Soap Supplies. These supplies will be arriving on Thursday. These new soaps I'll be making are for a limited time only as they are going to be my Christmas Soaps.

These bars will have a Candy Cane design on the top of the soap and the fragrance will be Holiday Candy. I will be adding a red dye to give them that holiday color.

I will also be making a few more bars of my Christmas forest Sheep Goats Milk Soap, to replace the ones I've sold. I also need to make a few more bars of Gardenia Rose Goats Milk Soap.

I will be discontinuing my Baby Rose Cameo Goats Milk Soap, Fragrance Free Goats Milk Soap, and my Senseuous Sandalwood Goats Milk Soap.

First Snow fall of the season

While sitting in my chair in the livingroom crocheting an edge on my tri-loom shawl, I looked up and saw it was snowing. The flakes were just little flurries at the time. Then later when I looked up the flakes had grown in size.

As the day progressed and the edging on my shawl started taking shape the ground outside turned white (roughly 2 inches), and the trees glizzened with white. My backyard now looks like a picture postcard.

Tomorrow we'll have to shovel the driveway before we leave to go and get groceries for the week.

Tri-Loom Shawl

Well, I today off this shawl and took it off the loom. Once I had it off the loom I then crocheted around the 2 sides to give it some stability. Then I placed it in the sink and washed it, when I finished washing it I squeezed out as much water and soap as I could and then rinsed it in fresh water. Once I had that done I then squeezed out the water again, then I rolled it tightly in a towel to get more water out. When I had done that I then laid it out on my lap and started crocheting my decorative edging. I used some of my Majestic Sky Merino Silk in the lace edging as well as some of my left over Handspun White Merino Silk. I didn't put a lot of lace edging around this shawl just enough to give it that little extra something.

I need to take a picture of it and when I get it taken I'll add it to this post.

Weaving on my Tri-Loom

I started weaving on my 3 foot Tri-Loom last week. I had a skein of Majestic Sky Merino Silk that had only 179 yards to it instead of 232 yards like I have listed on my website. So I thought I'd see how a small shawl would turn out with this yarn.

I'm weaving a plain weave for this shawl instead of anything fancy. This is because I'm still learning how to do a basket weave on this loom. I haven't quite got the hang of that type weave on this loom and a plain weave is just easier right now. I almost have it finished and probably would have finished it sooner. However, sitting on the floor and weaving (due to my table being full with my 20 inch table top loom), is very uncomfortable after a while.

When I'm finished with the weaving I'll take it off the loom and crochet around the 2 bottom edges like I saw done on wildharefiber's tri-loom shawl. My shawl will be much smaller then her shawl as she wove her shawl on a 6 foot tri-loom and mine is being wove on my 3 foot tri-loom. I'm not sure though what contrasting color I'll start with for the lace edging though. I do have some some white handspun yarn that I can use with some more majestic sky merino silk.

First things first, though finish weaving it and take it off the loom.