Aliento Luxury Fiber Farm

My knitted frog got shoes today. Totally stylin’. Name suggestions are welcomed. toy

Soaking up the only sun so far this year on a south facing hillside. I’m pruning out old raspberry canes in the shade at the bottom of the hill. I’m a little envious.

Yesterday we woke up to a tree falling on and destroying one of our fences (wind and hail storm). Spent all day on the repair, just in time for more hellacious hail at feeding time. Today woke up to 5” of snow. Hope you can see how magnificent the trees behind our house are. Dreaming of a white Easter.

A most inspiring morning here on Mable Dodge’s thrown.

Casting on for 2024. It seems right to begin anew for 2024. So, I’ve cast on Field in yarn. The yarn was basically rescued from wool that the students at Portland Community College sheared. Their sheep are varied and mixed—including Romney, Dorset, Rambouillet, Jacob, Churro. And I’m carrying a bit of cashmere for softness and to get gauge.
Tubular cast on is also new for 2024. Which took me 25 minutes following a great YouTube video by Suzanne Bryan.
Now I have to finish my WIP before tomorrow night and I will begin 2024 with Field!!

Dogs enjoy knitted things too. Leo the Dandelion Hearted Arctic Fox (age 9 months) and Aoife Queen of the House (age 5 years). Both love to cuddle on a thrift store rescued cable knit afghan while I do the finishing work on my mushroom dyed cardigan (full pics soon).
Happy Winter Holidays.

Happy Boxing Day from all the little Pocket Pals and Cable Hat trees. May your holiday parade include camelids and all the magic you can imagine.

It’s a Weaving Winter. I’m finally working on completing a class I took this summer with Elizabeth Buckley. And I read this:
On tapestry weaving by Liz Pulos (Puget Sound Tapestry Weavers)
“Every thread of weaving requires a small decision about color and technique. Some of these decisions come intuitively, some only after deliberation. It is the totality of these many small choices that give the work its look and fee. This speaks to the small decisions we make in life that, now we see only in relation to yesterday and tomorrow, but that taken together, make a coherent whole.” Liz Pulos artist statement at Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA

Important Announcement!! There is an online opportunity to view the special short film, A Fiber Story by Monty Hunter! It's gorgeous and moving and about our guanacos, their fiber, and making things from scratch. It will be streaming on October 26th starting at 7pm Pacific here: https://www.fhff.org/films-1/a-fiber-story

It will also be available on demand from October 30th- November 5th. Take a look, you will be so inspired!

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This is Georgia and her yearling baby Claude relaxing in the barn as I walk by about 3’ away. This level of calm on their part would have been unheard of even a year ago. If you want to experience some calm guanacos sign up for Lisa’s spinning in the barn retreat at afiberlife.com. Oh, and I don’t know whether Claude is smiling or chewing his cud.

Ply published my article about the magic of our spinning retreat! The next one is scheduled for August 26th and there are just a few spots left. Link to the article: https://plymagazine.com/2023/06/455392/

Link the the retreat: https://afiberlife.com/spinning-experience-workshop/

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