Hair dresser

If last July was the coldest in 50 years in July we have had such super hot days. I don't complain but yes, we Finns do need some air conditioning too. At the SummerCottage the bunnies had their ***** room service. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of it but on the morning when I went to clean up the boxes MissViola looked like she just had her hair dresser day. Her fur looked so well done, airy and ethereal.  :D She was really proud of her cool look.

Poor Cat had a terrible time. In her long fur she had far too hot. She was exhausted at the end. So it was time for her bath. No, not at all, it was not difficult. The towel and the bucket work just fine together. She knows she doesn't need to like it despite she must accept it.

Stitching little blue cross stitches on the early sunny morning...

...and feeling curious about little visitors when no one sees.

That is how the hot summer days pass by <3

Hair cut day

I've been stitching my secret project. The last shade is going on so I am finishing it very soon. I aim to take it to the framer before the next weekend.

My WoollySecret had another interesting day today. One more creature moved into our BunnyBarn.

He is Gynter. And yes, he is a big boy already. I could call him a love child because few days ago I didn't know I was going to have him; and still yeasterday I was not sure will I let him move in. I need to start handling from the first steps but he has no choise. He needs to learn it all to get more freedom and I am sure that is excellent bonus from his point of the view. It will make him happy and so he hopefully will produce more angora wool for me. That's a fair deal.

Little Rasputin had his hair cut day today. I was time to shear his woollen fleece off for the 1st time. We didn't shear him nacked because it's still a bit chilly over the nights. He is alone in his cage so he can't seek warmth from other bunnies so he was allowed to keep his coat on with 3cm long hair. Fair deal. At the end it is his wool. And we got just a little bit of angora raw wool. He seemed to have a bit uncomfortable in his long hair so we needed to shorten it, but shearing it all off would have cool him down too much. So this was the compromise. We didn't want him to heaten up neither get cold.

Mother's Day

Of course today -the 2nd Sunday of May- started with cake...

...and stitching.

But today included also sorting out the rest of the ethical produced sheep wool...

 

...which smelled sooo good. But no, he was not allowed to touch, nor taste, neither take any kind of part to the action. But still, oh that smell...Poor "Little Polar Bear" needs to keep his tiny paws out of it all.

And yes, my woolly secret keeps going on well.

The nature knows my woolly secret needs some green.

The wet places look first like this before the frost melts away from the ground. Then it lets the moisture through, gets dried up and begins to grow grass. It is like having a swamp at first and then a prairie.

 

This and that from fibres and fabrics

I've been shopping. I need to make a dress for myself. There will be very formal celebration with ball in July. Unfortunately they didn't sell updates for dance skills but the fabrics I found. This disco effect looks very 80's. But I will use it just a little bit, like a drop in a blue sea. So it should look more decorous than cheap. I have the design in my head; I just need to make the pattern.

And I have already started from the 1st step. Which is not getting the fabric or the dress itself. All the ladies reading -the 1st step is to buy the underware. You should always get them first and try on the dresses with the wanted underware. The underware change the form of your body which influences also on the dress and how it looks on you and how you look in it.

Today I had yarn moments on sofa. I stitched my secret projet and the yellow heart. I also crocheted a bit BlanketNo2. I was happy to discover it was not that slow anymore. The starting was so desperate slow but now I think I will finish it before Xmas. Yeppee! Still it is slow but not devastating dull.

This is how it looks now from the front side...

...and like this it looks from the back side.

The day has been dry with a blink of the sun. The evening was cloudy but still no water drops. It was perfect weather with tiny wind to do something a bit different.

We went outside and carried two of five bags from the shelter house.

I have bought 20 kilos of ethic produced sheep wool. Today we started to clean them up. We seperated the wools by colours and picked up the white ones and put the dark ones back.

We cleaned the wools and packed them into clean paper bags. They should not be stored in plastic bags because it perishes the fibres. Believe or not but at the moment we are using extremely old garment bags made of paper which we happened to find in good shape!

It is easy to clean the raw wool. Put a clean tarpaulin on the dry ground and wool on it in a pile. Then lift up some wool and it shows its form when you do it gently. There is no need to tear the wool apart. It happens without doing. So, lift a bit and start gently shaking. The trashes drop down easily. Beware off not to shake above the wool pile; to avoid more trash to get into the wool you suppose to be cleaning. You can pick up the straws and other bigger trashes individually by fingertips.

On some other day we will continue this project. Little by little. Later on May we'll take this wool and arctic dog wool into a spinnery to get ethic produced yarn which will be mix of sheep and dog wool.