Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

So, while I was in the UK the last time I bought a bag of oatmeal colored Blue Faced Leicester roving.  I bought a half a kilo of it, thinking that was the closest that I could easily get to them selling me a pound of the stuff. Half a kilo is about 1.1 pounds. …

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So, I am finally able to show you a picture of one of the super secret projects that I have been working on for a while.   This is on a Cal. King sized bed.  It is about 100″X100″.  It made me really hot working on it towards the end (imagine, having that ENTIRE THING …

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  So, I am now going to show-and-tell so to speak.  So this will probably be another pretty picture heavy post.  If you have slow Internet connection, I apologize in advance.  This will take a while…..     So, first off, I promised pictures of my glove/mitten hybrid.  They are 100% alpaca and were hand …

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Oh My God.  I so don’t know how to describe today, it was seriously just too overwhelming.  I guess that the best way to do it is to start at the beginning, right?   I left the muggle in-law’s house today at around 5:30-ish.  The sun was still a ways from being up, let alone …

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I have found that when I am traveling over 1000 miles to go to something, it is a good thing to make a list of priorities prior to getting there.  If I just show up some place without some sort of plan I tend to go nuts (I know, what’s new?) and don’t end up …

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