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Indigo and I are working on some of her fiber. Going to spin this up very fine, then ply with another spin I've been working on. I love this girl, she is a little confused by the cats.

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My modest Maryland sheep and wool festival haul. Kept it simple this year.

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My knitting is complete. The gray is a blend of mohair from Markl my angora goat, and a tiny bit of angora rabbit. The blue lace is merino/bamboo. All spun by myself and knit with the eye blink shawl pattern.

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Working with some handspun yarn of mine. I can't remember the blend which is unfortunate but I believe it's angora rabbit, mixed with kid mohair? It's very soft. Atsushi the cat has to be involved as usual.

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Today I went and taught crochet at a local coffee shop. This is what I live for, I love teaching beginners basic granny squares, they teach pattern reading and basic stitches.

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Crocheted myself a little couldron to put my spindle and fiber in. It's technically a dice bag, but it worked great for my purposes.

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I only did a little bit of spinning over the last week.

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Every now and then I pull out some work to enter in our local community show. There was some amazing crochet there! But I'm glad I brought this little guy with me. I'm normally so focused on my kids entries.

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Crocheted chicken made for our local county fair!

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Working on a corner to corner knit wash cloth. This is an example for a class I'll be teaching in October at the Frederick fiber festival.

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My son made these hilarious eyes for his plant. They're needle felted and attached to wire.

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My latest spin on my new Ashford kiwi 3. I've used kiwis quite a bit in my life spinning, but having my own is so lovely. I've been living my best life this week farm sitting for a friend during lambing. This is my wooly life ❤️

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Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you

No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.

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Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.