Spinning, spinning, spinning...

I haven´t stop spinning from the end of TdF. I was in such a for I couldn´t!
Now, it might have seen I have been lazy and was not updating my blog, which I wasn´t, but at least my new shop on Etsy is not empty, even though nobody is buying :-(.

However, I did not advertise yet, so I am hoping that next month during time my add will be flying all over ravelry, something might change. Somebody might want to buy my yarn again... Maybe I even throw in some fibre for spinners... I do have plenty of that ;-)

Le Tour

We are half way in dear friends.
Half way in what? Tour de Fleece of course!
During Tour de France, the cycling event, you know the one, right? The one where people can actually die participating. There were quite a few scary crashes so far and even some winners of stages were unexpected!
And yet, while I do not care who will win the yellow jersey or the green one, I am a HUGE polka dot watcher. For those of you who do not follow... Polka dot jersey is given to best climbers, i.e. people who do not get heart attack after 200km of riding their bike up the steep hill. I will, of course make sure you get to see what I have been up to during Le Tour, but I want to leave this till it is over. But the hill of spun yarn is getting slowly bigger even though my hand decided to take few days off. Well, at least I got some ironing done with the other hand LOL
So, if you are spinners, you can still join in on www.ravelry.com
I can be found in 3 teams on regular basis:
Team Hopelessly Overcommited (of the same named knitting forum)
Team Bacon Waffle (full of infamous members of The Very Longest Ferdinand)
Team Bring Me a Shrubbery (well, you guessed it, right? Knitters who say "Ni")

week in Shropshire and Herefordshire

We spend absolutelly amazing week mainly in Shropshire following our camping in Norfolk.
If you are in Shropshire, there are hundrets of walks for you and your doggies, you can find them at Shropshire walking web. Try some circular, or linear ones (there are plenty buses to take to get home wherever you are staying ;-)).
It would not be a visit to Shropshire if we did not visit two important places...
One is Acton Scott working farm where during 1 year a TV series Victorian Farm was shot. 3 people lived the old victorian way there and since I am huge fan of the series I could not miss that! Now, doggies are not allowed as the farm animals walk freely about, however there are 3 great walks in area- mind the hills! and on some of the walks you will be passing parts of farm itself. We did it the lazy way. Dag and boys did climb the hills on walks and I visited the farm.

Acton Scott working farm

The other place is of course biggest walk- in museum. Also working, no doubt about that. Blists Hill is World famous and the streets and its shops DO ALLOW DOGS in! We saw Japanese tourists, Americans and I have hear some Dutch walking there.
The village itself is amazing, staff super friendly and there is a walk behind the village for some quiet moment for your pack if you decide to take dogs with you.
I do recommend that if you are not going to visit any of the museums itself in BH, that you arrive in the afternoon. Why? Because schools are bound to be about most mornings and if you have shy and nervous dogs, afternoons are much more easy on them. Dogs are not charged for entry ;-)
If you are dogless on your trip. Come as early as possible! There is so much to see and if you have children, so much to do!

Do not miss Blists Hill, it has so much to offer.

camping in Norfolk

We did have horrid weather for our camping this year.

Getting several inflammations in my ankles did not help, but we tried to make most of it ;-)
We did have a dear Millie Moo cow for an afternoon which was great since Millie and Bess were not camping with us this year and we missed the flirt Millie and the shy Bess.
I managed some shopping in craft store with Roo (Babs) and ended up with some jelly rolls for quilting (YAY!), silk for painting and some other bits and pieces.

Rob and Ann kindly made us a dinner, which we really enjoyed. As always we were neighbouring with Birdie Towers and finally met the norty Teddy. Who is super cute and just simply crazy.
We had nice walk on beach and great time walking on dog walk surrounding the campsite.

So, if you want to camp in Norfolk, I highly recommend:
http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/siteseeker/aspx/details.aspx?id=7250&returnPage=search.aspx

and if you want to spend a lot of money on quilting fabric and goods, yarn or art goods, make sure to pop by:
sew simple
Dog friendly restaurant which serves dinners even for dogs (as well as take aways for the four legged):
Orange Tree

...and more yarn

 As we are leaving Saturday morning for holiday, to meet with our dear UK friends for a week of camping just to leave them to go on a week of roaming Shropshire countryside and for me to finally see for myself Victorian town and farm, I better post before I lose the track of "havetodos".
I still hope to be able to post a shawl I am knitting from baby camel (my own spun yarn), but I can not make any promises. I do hope however that I will finish this giant piece of heavy warmth while on holiday.
That is unless Katie MacAlyster´s books will let me do anything else.














P.S. Note the olive green one colour yarn. I added hundreds of TOHO olive triangular (sp?) beads into it and I just adore it. It is made of real British Shetland sheep- the queen of all knitted lace ;-). 

I am back!!!!

I   haven´t posted for a while. I know... You think me lazy, but I do have an excuse! (YAY!)

I had a whole week (last week) inflammation in my right knee. I was moody and horrid and in pain, so I did nothing except feeling sorry for myself.

I do still have quite a stiffness in my knee and of course my left knee hurts from having to carry all the weight by itself, so still not much to celebrate about, but except for wanting to kill inventor of stairs, I am OK.

I did take some pictures in past few days of what I make with all that fibre I seem to dye all the time, so here is a little something for all of you who do like colours

THANK YOU!

Just really want to brag here. I have many great online friends who I never met in my life, but who are just so special to me. I love you guys!

Now, this is a special THANK YOU from me, Dag and mainly Fenix and Chekhov to a specific one.

Jackie....

We got our package from USA (yep! All the way from USA travelled a package which was to put huge grins on our faces, make our carpet covered in saliva from our two K9s and makes us all feel undeserving- well not that Fenix and Chekhov complained...).

Picture is worth more than thousand words they say, so do not share this with any puppies, unless you want them to drool over your computer and lick your screen ;-).

I am sure that the print which we got will look great on the wall in our hall.

Thank you Jackie, I do not know how we deserved this

Love ya ;-)

Eva, Dag, Chekhov and Fenix