Bella Vita Farm & Fiber

Ok, so I moved my blog over to WordPress and now Ravelry doesn’t have anything to show for the move.  Well I do, I started a new group on Ravelry the other day called “Plants to Dye For”, it’s all about dyeing with natural plants.  I’ll be writing a three part article on Natural Dyeing for the weekly newsletter on Ravelry (TWIR).  The first article is scheduled for April 28th and it will focus on natural dye gardens.  The second article will be about wildflowers weeds,  mushrooms and lichen.  The third will be on an overview of natural dyeing.

I decided to move my blog over to WordPress instead of using blogger.com so please excuse me while I finish getting everything set up. I wanted a cleaner more professional looking blog where everyone could find what they needed easily by category. I know I could have revamped my old blog to do this but I’m always looking at new ways to do things, new looks, new adventures….call me daring.

The latest project on my needles are a pair of socks, Cascading Leaves by Jeannie Townsend.

I’m knitting them for the Ravelry Socknitters Anonymous group for the April Sockdown. The theme this month is Jeannie’s patterns or a Mystery sock (pattern without a picture of the finished sock). The object is to cast on no earlier than April 1st and cast off no later than May 31st. Each month brings a new challenge, it keeps me knitting more socks. I have other projects on the needles that I need to work on but somehow the socks keep jumping into my hands and getting knitted.