Yarn

January 18, 2008

I'd like to become proficient at crochet and eventually knitting so I can justify buying beautiful yarns. I'm like a kid in a candy shop when I'm around farm grown and homespun wools. After seeing the mounds of wool at the farm in December I needed to come up with a project so I could buy some. Since late fall I've been attempting to make a square patchwork afghan out of miscellaneous balls of yarn that were given to me. I ran out of the colors I wanted so I had the perfect excuse to buy 3 skeins of wool at the farm last week. The wool is from the sheep raised at Willow Pond & other small local farms. It's dyed and spun at Bartlett Yarns in Harmony Maine.

Now I actually have to do something with it. But in the meantime I'm enjoying its beauty as is and feeling connected to the farm. Thankful for the sheep that the kids and I visit all summer long and my friend Jill, the farmer who raised the sheep. Locally produced yarn connects me to the seasons and reminds me of all that the land provides for us, even if we are city folks.