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I know I have said it before, but Long Island has the best spinning guild around! Last night’s meeting included a program by fellow member Tabbethia who is co-owner of Long Island Livestock Co.. She brought in a number of her animals and spoke about the world of camelids, raising them, showing them and of course their fleeces! The highlight was this mother and cria.

thanks guys! I knew I wasn’t the only pom pom fan out there. I was going to reply individually to the comments, but wordpress is doing a funny thing when I hit the reply button. Instead of automatically putting in the commenter’s email address it comes up donotreply@wordpress. Any other wordpress users with words of wisdom?

Today is knit day at Kathleen’s — I think she is making halibut cheeks for lunch. ;) I hope to put the finishing rows on another sweater.

I feel a pom-pom phase coming on. The last time I went through a pom-pom phase, I think I was 11.

Take yourself back to the early seventies, to a Philadelphia suburbs. You are a cool kid. or at least you are trying to be. It is Friday night. Where are you?

At the local ice skating rink!

What are you wearing?

well, who the hell can remember that? But I will tell you, there were pom poms on my ice skates!

And I do believe as soon as the ice skating thing went, so did my pom pom fever. Until now.

I just finished a Christmas project that you can see here. (if you aren’t on Ravelry – look to the right of the blog page for a link to my flickr account.)

Are you noticing the fantastic pom poms? they are perfect, right?! I got this pom pom making gadget at Granny’s and it is far superior to either making one yourself out of index cards or those flat plastic discs with the holes in the center. These pom poms do not require measuring the yarn out ahead of time or any kind of stress when tying them off and they come out fat and perfect every time!

It’s addictive —- I am looking around wondering what else could do with a bit of pom pom …….