Flowing Fiber Designs

08/22/2026

Looking forward to seeing you all! I’ll be a Spinner Farm again his year!

43RD ANNUAL WOOL TOUR 2026 Columbus Day Weekend: October 10 & 11, 2026 Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 10am - 4pm

07/07/2026

We gush over wool and luxury fibers. We show off our wheels and beautiful items that we have spun, knit, weaved or felted. We are creative, some of us exceptionally talented with an array of skills. One of the gifts that is often not seen or understood by the bystander watching a group of woman spinning is the connection. The connection to our craft, to the passion that evokes when we are creative and more importantly is the connection to self and to other woman. I have been blessed to have found and been brought in and accepted by these loving, beautiful, fierce and creative ladies.
When you are lucky enough to come upon a spinning group, know you have been blessed with a gift like no other.

07/04/2026

Happy 250th America

07/04/2026

07/04/2026

So I’m a morning person.Some think I’m crazy, I was up at 4:00am, relaxed and had some coffee and enjoyed the quiet listening to the early morning birds. Laundry done, some gardens weeded and two alpaca fleeces scoured and drying.
It’s 8:50 AM and I’ve got my chores done for the day and can head out and enjoy the Barnstead farmers market and the Fourth of July! So YES I’m a morning person😀

06/24/2026

You only know me as two weeks of light in June. I worked toward those two weeks for the better part of two years.

I'm a firefly. Before I was the flash over your lawn, I was something you'd never recognize — a soft, segmented larva living down in your soil and leaf litter, glowing faintly in the dark where no one was watching.

And I wasn't idle down there. I'm a hunter. All that time, I tracked the slugs and snails and soft grubs moving through the damp, followed their slime trails, and cleared them out one by one. The "pests" you fight in the garden all summer? My whole childhood was eating them. The healthier your soil, the more leaf litter you leave, the longer you let the grass grow at the edges — the more of us you raised without ever knowing it.

Then this month, after all that time in the dark, I climbed up and changed. I traded the soil for the air. And now I have almost no time left at all.

The light you see is me looking for a mate, blinking a code only my own species answers. Each kind of firefly has its own rhythm — a long slow pulse, a quick double, a drifting J low over the grass. I get a couple of weeks to find the right answer in the dark. That's it.

Two things end me early: a spotless yard with no damp corners for my young, and a porch light or a lawn chemical that drowns out my signal or kills my larvae before they ever glow.

So if you want more of me next June, the work happens now — underground, in the dark, where you'll never see it.

Leave a wild corner. Kill the lights. The flash you love started two years ago in the soil you almost cleaned up.

06/04/2026

I am currently working on processing this exquisite multi-colored Romney fleece. Last year, I acquired two of these fleeces from Fran Emory, who has amazingly stunning fleeces, with very minimal vegetation matter! Easy Peasey Skirting😀The white fleece was successfully skirted and washed last summer. Now, I am moving on to the next fleece. It's a lovely day, surrounded by beautiful gardens, scrumptious fleece and a beautiful clear sunny sky☀️