09.30.07
Posted in Festivals and Vending at Shows, Knitting at 10:33 am by Lynette
The Holidays are coming, get your yarn to me soon to save your place in our production line. We are currently two weeks out for orderes received in October.
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Socks Knit From Your Yarn
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Fernwood Woolworks will knit socks from yarn provided by you, the customer.
We need a minimum of 350 yards sock weight yarn per pair of socks.
(Examples: Opal, Regia, Wildfoote, Trekking weight yarn)
For socks for men and women shoe size great than shoe size 11, we need 400 yards.
How it works:You mail your yarn with a note including your mailing address, email and phone #
Payment is made when your order is complete through Pay Pal or by Money Order
Attach a note to each skein of yarn specifying the shoe size.
We can accomodate requests of wide or narrow foot just include that information also.
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Women’s Socks shoe size 6 - 14 Crew length socks
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Men’s Socks shoe size 8 - 16 Crew length Socks
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Boot Length Socks in above sizes requires 400 yards yarn per pair
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Pricing is as follows:
1 - 5 pair $12.00 each
6 - 10 pair $11.00 each
11 - 15 pair $10.00
The above prices include shipping back to you via USPS first class mail.
(Canadian and European add $3 - Shipping is USPS First Class International)
To place your order or for more information contact me through my by email.
fernwoodwoolworks@charter.net
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09.28.07
Posted in Redwood Living at 11:29 am by Lynette
It rained! Everything is green and the air is clean. Take a deep breath and smell the forest. Ahhhhhhhh
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09.26.07
Posted in Knitting, Redwood Living at 9:11 am by Lynette
It is that time of year we start thinking about the Holiday Gifts. At least, I start thinking about Holiday Gifts. With the DuH’s birthday this Friday and the Oldest Son’s Birthday the day before Halloween and the youngest’s 3 days before Christmas, I HAVE to start thinking about knitting now. But….I seem to be at a loss for what to get on the needles. 
I have books to look at.
I have yarn to knit, 
I have needles (the cat loves this needle configuration by the way).
I have people to knit for…I just don’t know where to start.
Maybe this morning as I sit in the Dentist chair under that wonderful laughing gas stuff I’ll have a brain fart and finally decide what to start.
I really do need to start knitting something because, as you can see, the cat is sitting on the only piece of in the process knitting in the house. (Let’s not talk about the Fortress of Solitude, aka My Studio)
Here she sits, where she is not suppose to be on top of the piano. I have to give her credit though, as I said, she is sitting on the only partially knit project in the room.
Onward…
Isn’t amazing how you can try to teach your child something but finally, one day, they just get it. Here is the 9 year old’s first knitting. I purchased 1 dozen sets of these neat children’s needles (You can get some too HERE). I cast on for her and she took off last night. Talking, knitting along and acting like she had been knitting for years. I tried about 6 months ago to teach her and he could not grasp it. She said it is the needles. The cute little tops and the different colors make is much less confusing. (her words!) She has plans for knitting dish rags and giving them for Christmas.
Now if a 9 year old can figure what to knit I know I should be able to do the same.
Off to the dentist….let’s hope for an epiphany as I sit smiling while he drills my brains out.
Dentist update…
Good news! or Bad news! I arrived at the dentist and started coughing. Why are you coughing he asked. I have asthma and I didn’t bring an inhaler. Rescheduled! I was really looking forward to the ‘gas’ vacation though.
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09.24.07
Posted in Knitting, Redwood Living at 5:51 am by Lynette
Auhhhhh- thumn. I just love Autumn. And thankfully enough, our whether here on the Pacific coast has been cooperating.
Today I drove over to Grants Pass to bestow upon a lucky purchaser my first LeGare Circular Sock Machine. ‘Glenda’ is now living with another sock knitter and I know they will be very happy together. It has been with a bit of reluctance but I’ve sold the LeGare 47 I purchased 2 years ago. She has served me well. I’ve made over 300 pair of socks on her. 
She has been replaced with Clarise. Clarise is the upscale model made in the 1920’s by LeGare. I have been very fortunate to find one of those rare circular sock machines that was used very little in it’s early life. After spending a day using the Drimmel to ’sand’ off the original packing grease I have an almost new beautifully working machine.
Soon to join her will another. It seems I am to be in the commercial sock making business. So added to my 4 flat bed knitters I will now have 2 circular sock machines. I need a bigger studio!
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09.21.07
Posted in Festivals and Vending at Shows at 5:55 am by Lynette
This being Eye Candy Friday and all I choose the image of the Superior Fiber’s booth at the Shaniko Wool Gathering. I sat right across from her, looking down into her booth for 3 days. The colors were like eye candy.
So what to do ? I purchased 3 fleeces from the ladies behind her and gave them to her to process into roving! I can hardly wait!
She also gets the gold star for ‘hanging in there’. She and two others reserved a room at the Shaniko Hotel. Unfortunately it came with one bed! “We were Girl Scouts” she said, “we’ll make do”. You go girls!
Note to you all….if you’re coming to the Wool Gathering next year on September 6 & 7, they only have 2 rooms with more than one bed. If there is a group, reserve the bridal suite….it has enough room to sleep 8 with air beds. (No shower though, just a big honking jacuzzi tub.) I guess newlyweds don’t shower. 
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09.20.07
Posted in Redwood Living at 7:53 am by Lynette
Why is it when things are going really good you get thrown a curve ball? Yesterday was spent knitting a stupid hat because that is about all I could muster in the way of concentration and energy. It doesn’t seem to matter weather the dd or ds wear the hat….it still looks stupid. It is called a Hallowig and the pattern is available through Knitty.
I guess if you had a boy that wanted to be a Knight for Halloween this would work for that under the helmet head covering. How many 12.5 year old boys would let you take this picture? Maybe I should save it for show and tell to the future girl friends. This pretty much sums up just how ‘weird’ I am.
On to the curve ball. My DuH (no I did not make a typo I meant to type duh not dh for dear husband) did something stupid while deer hunting this past weekend No one was hurt, no trucks were damaged as in past years and he did make it home OK. But HE will be paying for this for the next 5 years with increased auto insurance rates, court fees and lawyer fees. He will have a ‘turd in his jacket’ (the not so polite term for a ‘you were a bad boy’ letter) for the next 3 years and I will probably have to drive him to work for at least the next 3 months. He can find his own way home as far as I’m concerned. I say he will have to pay for it because he will have to work the overtime. My yarn business will not pay for his stupidity. A friend of mine said after adding up what the projected increase in financial impact will be to him I am entitled to go out and spend about $5,000. Hmmm, that is a lot of yarn!
So we’re off to the attorney today to see just what the damages will be. The only reason I’m going is because I want to hear for myself . The DuH tends to forget important facts to lessen the blow. Or perhaps you could say he is denial. My goal for the next 3 months is to find out who those guys were he was with so I can have a nice little chat with THEIR wives and thank them for leaving my DuH to hitch hike back 100 miles to his truck in the middle of the night on I-5. Thanks guys!
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09.18.07
Posted in Redwood Living at 8:27 am by Lynette
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It being Tuesday and just because I have nothing really earth shattering to comment on, today will be random.
First… I am in my third week of not using shampoo on my hair. You see I have this curly hair. Some days it is great, most days it is not. When I was a kid my Mother used to keep it about 2 inches long because she didn’t want to hear me complain about the tangles. (Let’s not mention I have one with the same hair and every morning we go through the tangle battle.) In fact, until I moved out of the house I had never had hair longer than 3 inches. I wanted long hair. I ached for long hair. I wanted to be able to tie those long fat yarn hair thingies in my hair. But no, every 6 weeks we would go off the the beauty salon for the ‘pixie’ razor cut.
Through the Disco years I tried blowing it straight. I tried perms and braids and curlers. Finally in my 40’s I just decided to go with what I was given. I basically made peace with my hair. I’ve embraced the curliness. In doing so I find it is actually a very nice curl. A curl people pay big bucks to get. So when I went to get a trim earlier in the month once again my hair gal encouraged me to wash my hair with only conditioner. There are good and bad to this suggestion as I see it. Initially it went against all that I had been taught over the past 52 years. You have to use shampoo to ‘get you hair clean’ don’t you? The good is I will save money because I’m only buying one product.
Well slap me silly and call me a believer. ‘Washing’ with only conditioner has made a believer about of me. Here is the back view of the hair.
Next….
Pants. Why is purchasing jeans so difficult for women? When I buy pants for the DuH I can get 36 X 34 and they fit. Always.
I currently have 2 pair that I wear almost all the time. 2 pair that are too small in the waist. 1 pair that I purchase with out trying on and are suppose to ride at my hips (now really, I’m 52. I didn’t wear them when I was 12 why would I wear them now? It was a weak moment.) 2 pair that are Land’s End and I love but are way too big. One pair I really want to get into because I paid alot for them but they are too small. Another pair that bag in the butt and make me look like I’m carrying a wet diaper.
All of the above mentioned pants are the same size. How can that be? Different manufacturers but the same size. This is the reason I hate to buy pants at Wally World.
Next….I purchased 8 chickens. All were guaranteed to be hens. As I’m sitting typing this I hear 3 different crows. So much for sexing chickens.
Finally…
 Yes, I admit it. I am one of those weird people who grow things and etch names on them. Remember I live in the middle of nowhere. It can get pretty boring around here. We have to create our own entertainment. Ok, ok, I’m just weird I guess.
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09.17.07
Posted in Festivals and Vending at Shows at 8:50 am by Lynette
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The last day of classes at Shaniko were a HUGE success. I came away knowing the students grasped the process and would be successful using their wraping boards. So here you go….the last day of classes.
Working on their wraping boards learning how to unwrap a skein after dying.
 
Finished dyed skeins….beautiful!
If you would like to purchase 350 yard Superwash Meino Skeins o 350 yard knit blanks to Dye Your Own go HERE.
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09.14.07
Posted in Festivals and Vending at Shows at 10:56 am by Lynette
As promised here is the first day pictures of the Dye It - Socks class in Shaniko.
I was given the Fire Garage for the class. This is used as a multi-purpose room for Shaniko because it is large and insulated. I told the class the one requirement for me teaching there is if the bell rings, we all have to don the garb and ride on the trucks. Just kidding but I could just see the panic in some of their eyes. Save the yarn first!
I was so prepared. In fact went the night before and set up so everything would be ready.
It never ceases to amaze me the color combinations students come up with. This is one of MY favorite things, taking pictures of their dye jobs for my reference later.
Here they are…the whole gang camping it up in front of the Shaniko Hotel. The weather was great, the company enjoyable and the outcome stunning. Great job gals!
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09.12.07
Posted in Festivals and Vending at Shows, Knitting at 6:32 pm by Lynette
My biggest fear once I found out that the Shaniko Preservation Guild was going to go ahead with my Wool Gathering idea is that no one would come. After all, as I’ve said before, Shaniko is in the middle of nowhere. Two and a half hours from Portland, 2 hours from Bend and a couple hours from Idaho.
The reason for Shaniko is because of wool. In the early 1900’s they were known as the Wool Capital of the World. In fact the reason Pendleton is located where it is is because of Shaniko. The railroad would leave Pendleton and travel to Shaniko where is would pick up thousands of tons of sheared fleeces from the wool barn.
It might not look like much now but that barn in the background was once 2 football fields long. It is half it’s size now with 50 foot ceilings and has the feeling of a haunted tyrolean castle.
I didn’t know what to expect last Friday morning as we walked into it for the first time. It was….empty, vacant, echoing but remarkable did not smell like an old barn.
You could say I had no vision. I could not see how the above cavern would come to life with wool, fleeces, yarn, felt batts, spinning wheels and people. But it did. It started with a trickle of vendors. As they walked in they had a much better vision of what it would become.
It bloomed, it was amazing. When I walked in that night a 9 pm to help close up the barn….this is what I saw.
Wow!
Tomorrow….dying day one.
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