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.

Happy Thanksgiving!

This year my hubby and I have much to be thankful for. We are thankful for being back in our home with no problems. Well, except for not a whole lot of furniture. See when we moved out to Yuma, AZ we got rid of all our furniture, as we wanted to keep the cost of the move down and we didn't think we thought our house would sell.

Well, the house didn't sell, so we packed up the little stuff we had (mostly my looms, spinning wheels, desk and bookcases), although, we did buy a couple of chairs to set on when we were living in Yuma, AZ. So here we are back in our own home with my stuff, 2 chairs, an air mattress (that we sleep on) and a table and chairs we just bought, so's we could eat our Thanksgiving dinner at.

We are also very thankful for the job that my hubby found a week after we arrived back home. He will be teaching at the A&P School in Lexington, MA., teaching the students how to work on helicopters. Right now though, he's only assisting the other instructors until his teaching creditals are approved.

We are also very thankful for all our family members and their support in our decision to move back home. We pray that everyone including all the military over in Iraq and Afghanastan have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

God Bless!!!

Fall has definitely arrived

Well, fall has definitely arrived here in Winchendon, MA. Most of the leaves have fallen off the trees and are laying all over the yard and in my flower beds, although there are a few leaves still clinging to the branches on some trees. I really should be outside raking up these leaves but with fall also comes my much needed time to make up batches of Handmade Goats Milk Soap.

So its off to the basement were my hubby and I set up my table with all my soap supplies and ingredients. I have a soap kettle on my table that I plug in and add all my ingredients to to make up my soaps. I have an order for 10 White Lavender Sheep Goats Milk Soap w/Lavender buds and 10 Purple Lavender Sheep Goats Milk Soap w/Lavender buds to make up. These soaps are sold through http://www.lavendersheep.com/ so you can see what they look like there.

Once I this order is filled I will need to make some more White Christmas Forest Sheep Goats Milk Soap as well as some others bars. I probably should order some new molds and some new fragrances as well. I do have some Sensuous Sandalwood Goats Milk Soap, Baby Rose Cameo Goats Milk Soap, White Gardenia Rose Goats Milk Soap, as well as some Fragrance Free Goats Milk Soap.

So raking the leaves will just have to wait until after I've finished making up more Goats Milk soap. Maybe by that time the remaining leaves will have fallen off the trees.

Back in the grove again

Spinning Day at Spinning Ginny's is just starting. Choo-Choo (lower right), Sue-Chi (upper right), Brutis & Ti (upper left). They like to curl up where the sun comes in from the windows of my Spinning Room. They keep me company while I spin (even if they sleep through it all).

My Spinning Wheel is all ready for me to start spinning up more Majestic Sky Merino Silk. I had started spinning this up originally in Yuma, Arizona. I had even knitted a pair of socks out of a skein of yarn that I had spun up while there. Then I spun up another skein of yarn just before packing everything up to move back home to Winchendon, MA. Yesterday I spun up another skein of yarn and listed 2 skeins in my store at http://www.spinningginny.com/ . I still have a lot more to spin up, so I just might get another skein or 2 added to my store.

I just finished carding up some Red Merino with some White Merino to make some Christmas Yarn. I'm spinning this on my Schacht Drop Spindle. This yarn is starting to remind me of Peppermint Candy. I haven't decided what I'll knit with it when I get all the wool carded and spun. Although, a nice warm sweater would be nice....or a nice warm hat.....or scarf.....maybe even some mittens......now that the weather is getting colder.