Crafting goes on....

I decided to add a few more woven scarves to my stall items as Winter is coming. I have used some Bendigo wool yarn and some natural brown that I overdyed. I have also spun up some of my blended batts, with no colouration in mind except to see what they turned out like. And, I am happy with the results so far.



....scarf on the knitter's loom

.....a scarf completed using overdyed natural brown processed yarn

.....handspun wool yarn from blended dyed wool fibres

.....blended dyed wool fibres batts

I recently picked the almonds off our three trees, resulting in a bucket and a half (not including those picked and eaten straight off the tree in preceding days).

......almonds after picking

A little bit of sad news as my ex-mother-in-law is seriously ill in Ballarat's St. John of God Hospital. As she is 87 years old I envisage a sad outcome, as she will certainly go into care if she gets through this acute stage. My FIL also has to have an operation on his hip, which is infected (previous hip replacement several years ago), this week so they will be in hospital together. They have been unwell over the last two years, but have managed to be able to stay in their own home with services available to them. So with 2 daughter and two babies, and meeting my middle daughter off the train at Ballarat, we trotted off to visit them. It was particularly important as the hadn't seen Amelia yet. The girls were happy and the great grandparents were happy, and now we play a waiting game.

All the local markets at the moment seem very quiet. I am unsure whether it is the current economics or the fact that there seems to be lots of events on at he same time everywhere. We will wait and see what the winter brings.