New at Greenberry House!

Gorgeous Miss Babs Fiber at Greenberry House

If you want to feel surrounded by wonderful color, follow the photo link and find the larger version of this! Miss Babs sent a wonderful bundle of her glorious hand-dyed wool and silk by way of Jane yesterday. This stuff is marvelous and you would not believe how soft, soft, soft it all is. I'd love to crawl up in the shelf and sleep in it!


Jane and knitted neckwarmer

We had a wonderful visit yesterday, Jane and I, despite the fact that I wasn't exactly feeling wonderful. Too much fog inside my head and out. She brought along a lovely neckwarmer she made for her mother, in a beautiful knitted pattern. The yarn is from Atlantic Breeze Alpacas and we dyed it at a mini-dye day at the farm. it was fun painting the yarn while the alpacas watched us so curiously!

Tomorrow night I'm going down to Stuart (hope it's not foggy) and demonstrate spinning at the Patrick County Music Association show. I've been invited because of my work with the Patrick County Tourism Advisory Council, so I'll be talking about Meadows of Dan and all the things that there are to do up "on the mountain" during the year. Brother Sammy Shelor will be there performing with "friends" and some other awesome local bands will be there. Headliners are Kenny and Amanda Smith Band. Come out if you can!

Announcements

The winners of our Fiber Femmes Newsletter give-away are posted on the Fiber Femmes blog this morning. If you're a newsletter subscriber head on over and see if you won, and if not, go on over to Fiber Femmes and sign up for next time!


Choking Hazards

JAG started a new photo group at Flickr, all about "Completely irresistible and irresponsible small things - mostly toys - that children (and dogs, and even the occasional adult) would be unable to keep from putting in their mouths. Look at this as a sort of public service announcement." Who doesn't love small things, but these folks are obsessed with them. Don't miss the discussions in the comments and the notes on the photos!

And I don't even know what this is about, but go on over, 'cause it's going to be something, I think, and you want to be a part of it!

Edited May 17 PM to add:

I just realized that Memorial Day weekend is coming up, and so is the Hit and Miss in the Mountains Festival here in Meadows of Dan. Y'all come out and see us!

And also check in at the Lonesome River Band web site. They have some awesome videos on the site from their recent show in Canada!