Whether you are a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, a dentist or a hand dyer of quality yarn, when people hear what you do they almost always say “I have a friend who….” Some doctors and dentists give medical opinions at cocktail parties. 

Some lawyers and accountants give advice. And some hand dyers will say “that’s nice. I’ve got an extra skein in the car.” Most of the time, we aren’t one of those “extra skein in the car” hand dyers. Robin would, I’m sure. But I am too aware that we are racing lickety-split to get every available skein we can produce to our retailers because they sell out so quickly.

Here is a great photoshowing the details of a hat she knit for Eli.

It goes well with his shirt (and his crayons).  Here is another photo of his new hat showing Megan's craftsmanship.

As a grandfather of 4, I am generally more interested in who's under the hat.  So, here are some more photos that focus on Eli.  I'm usually biased that my grandchildren are the cutest in the world.  But, this is a cute kid!

I mean CUTE!  Nice hat.

Speaking of kids.  We had a comment from Penelope Fleming about a comment that I made about our Needle Felted Silk Scarf Kits.  She really wants us to try to come up with an economical Needle Felting Kit for children.  With the cost of the kit and the cost of the Clover Needle Felting tools, it was too much for a child's project.

At Pagewood Farm, we listen to customer feedback.  When knitters wanted a thicker weight of our fingering weight Cashmere blend Alyeska, we came out with Alyeska 5, a light worsted.  When customers asked for a DK weight of our  Superwash Merino/Nylon (80/20) Denali yarn we started producing a 4-ply.

So we put on our thinking caps to try to figure out an answer to Penelope's request.  The Clover tool is pretty much required.  Other tools would be dangerous for a child to use.  You can also use a foam pad in place of the mat.  The foam won't last long and you have to be careful. On our end, we are working on using a child's size scarf (6" x 24") and less Tinkerbelle fluff,  to get a child's kit out for a child size price.  We'll let you know. Til then, needle felting works on any natural fabric.  And we sell bags of roving and mohair locks.  A nice child's project would be to use our fiber puff bags and get some closeout yardage at your local fabric store.  As long as it's not a synthetic fiber.