This past month has been a little difficult for me, so I return to the strategy I've had since I was a kid to retreat to my crafts and do something soothing and automatic. It's a healthier thing to ease a stressed mind to find some therapy in making and creating. It's also been helpful to spend time with productive people and visit the generous spirits that encourage me. Only a week ago, the animals at the Schuster Farm got a hair cut. Watching the process was so funny; these poor alpacas are such cry babies! It was a great education to see what the best part of the animal is for spinning yarn. I got to take 4 bags of fiber home and have been carefully going through the pieces for unwanted bits since then.
Just 4 days later, the fiber was picked through, washed, dried for 2 days, carded, and spun.
We went to Woodstock for a day and I spun the yarn on the road. I made one skein of McCaffery brown.
I started a new project with it, and there's no way to describe the feeling of working with yarn you spun right from an animal.
It's really weird to get back into sewing again. Having a purpose to sew helps me get over the loses from Hurricane Sandy, when all my precious goods were lost. After much procrastination, I was surprised to realize how much I missed it. My sewing machine and I have an interesting relationship, like that friend that always wants to get into deep conversations at times when you just don't want to. It has helped me so much to think things through and make something I'm proud of.
3 cheers for the Self Esteem Sewing Machine!
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