We have a family in Inglewood, California, that has been instrumental in the growth and success of Pagewood Farm. In addition to being great friends, they skein our yarns from the mill cones to production skeins. After Robin dyes them, they skein and label our finished skeins. In addition to skeining, Consolacion (the mother) loves to iron the silk scarves for our needle felted silk scarf kits. Veronica (her daughter-in-law) has her own picker to make up the mohair Tinkerbelle puffs.   When daughter Jackie moved home, she started up on processing.

It was natural that when we developed our Flora yarn (Thick N Thin hand spun yarn with small flowers needle felted onto it) we offer the needle felting portion to them. The ladies love it. After all: they are getting paid to do a crafting project that many do for relaxation and pleasure. Several times, I have stopped off at their Inglewood house and found the ladies soaking up the sun in the backyard, chatting, watching the children play, and needlefelting. And one day…….I saw this:

This was not staged. It was Trino (the father) taking a break to help out with the Flora. I took this picture and we all had a great laugh about posting it on our blog. But, there was nothing funny about the quality of the yarn he was making. It was good.

‘Cause guys can do it too.