Twists of Fate

I’ve enjoyed reading her blog, but the article in the Washington Post really brought a smile to my face.

You go girl.

Spun up about three more ounces of the fabulous roving from Stonehaven Farm down in Oregon. I forgot to take a picture of the box of fabulous that came…I think Lois may have included an extra color? It’s all kind of lost in a haze of grabbyhands!fever, but I could swear that there are six colors in the box instead of the five I thought I was getting. There’s a little VM, but I think that’s inevitable due to the nature of Shetland sheep. I swear most of the times I’ve seen Shetlands in person they’re good naturedly dribbling bits of hay all over their fellow flock members at the feeder.

Wow, alliterative sentence after midnight. Cool.

Where was I? OH! Yes, the roving is fabulous. It still has that sheepy smell that so many of us spinners are addicted to, and it’s super easy spinning. My spinning is not so even, but it was consistent enough that I was pretty happy about it.

Speaking of happymaking, check out one of the candles I managed to unmold without damage. I wish I could say I made the mold, because then people would go “oooo!”, but I got it off eBay. Sorry for the fairly poor picture - I took it with the Crackberry camera. The next time I pour I’ll take a better picture. The candle should be a bit better too, now that the mold is no longer a maiden.

I did a batch mostly for personal use on Lammas/solar eclipse day. I’m keeping one of the two of these for myself. The other I am giving to a friend I’m seeing tomorrow. Solar eclipses block the “now” and tend to bring shadow work we may need to do to the surface until the lunar eclipse that follows roughly two weeks later. I know my friend has been struggling with some healing past wounds, some of which are still very, very fresh. I hope that the energies and intent that were used to craft the candle will help make processing those shadows more gentle and easier, so she can move forward back into the light.

Time for sleepytime now, I think.