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We have added additional patterns from old favorites as well as 3 new pattern lines: 

Knitting Pure and Simple, Jennifer Appleby, and Woodstock Woolworks.

Cottage Creations' new pattern changes the Wonderful Wallaby to a sweater!  Nov 1, 2008

HeartStrings FiberArts adds 3 new patterns every quarter.

Top 5 knitting pattern lines in sales:

Cottage Creations, Penny Straker, Yankee Knitter Designs, Silver Creek Classics, Cabin Fever

Pictured below are a few of the most recent additions to the shopping cart.  Follow links to go directly to their pages.

Knitting Stitch Markers

Cloth Bobbin Lace Tool Organizers

Cloth Knitting Needle Organizers

Cloth Crochet Hook Organizers

Bobbin Lace Pillow (showing skein winder bobbin lace attachment and Swedish bobbin lace bobbins)

Danish, English, and Swedish Bobbins for Bobbin Lace

Umbrella Swift

Our German angora herd has grown to 5 male and 5 female bunnies. 
 
We have a small flock of Shetland Sheep that supply fiber and inspiration for a number of our products. 

A gaggle of American Buff Geese, and a flock of Buff Orpington chickens live at the farm.  We have chicks and fertile eggs available on a regular basis.

We obtained some Ancona ducklings in the spring of 2008 and have enjoyed watching them grow up.  I missed the "spots", so these ducks will have to suffice.
Growing up, Mary Ellen was introduced to a few of the Alice Fowler crocheted baby designs that her grandmother had.  Over the past years, she has found other enthusiasts of the Fowler patterns.  Most of the patterns have been located in one form or another.  Workbasket magazine advertisements give dates to which the patterns were available as research has not located family or friends who knew this lady.  If you are interested in these vintage patterns, they are being made available on a website devoted to her patterns:  Alice Fowler Website.  If you can supply any additional information, please email Mary Ellen.
  • Phone:  Toll Free 1 866 YARN FUN (1 866-927-6386)
  • Fax:  (336) 854-9314   
  • E-mail:  knitright@iseespots.com
  • Location: 6007 Rocky Valley Rd, Greensboro, NC 27407
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    Livestock Guardian Dogs

    		 We work with the Carolinas Great Pyrenees Rescue, Inc. program.  We have owned Livestock Guardian Dogs for since 1995.  Our long-time full time guardian is Maggie, a female Anatolian/Great Pyrenees rescue.  In 2007, we adopted another guardian who came with the name "Maggie".  We assist the Carolinas Great Pyrenees Rescue by fostering Great Pyrenees rescue dogs, evaluating and testing them with our livestock.

    E-mail the CGPR if you are looking for a working dog.  Martha has placed well over 100 dogs every year for several years.  In the past couple years, she has been forced to turn many wonderful dogs down most often because of either (1) lack of space to house and care for rescued dogs before their adoption, or (2) dogs being heartworm positive.  It never ceases to amaze how many people create these wonderful animals with no desire to care for them. 

    If you are interested in giving a Great Pyrenees dog a permanent home, be it a pet home or a livestock protection home, contact your local or state rescue organization.  The Carolinas Great Pyrenees Rescue, Inc. is a non-profit organization.

    Red Dog Farm rescue

    		 Red Dog Farm is a great rescue organization in the North Carolina Piedmont area.  We got a couple kittens in the fall of 2007 (Gracie and Grady).  When I returned a month later for their updated shots, a lovely Maine Coon had been just turned in.  She was so scared it was just hard to believe.  After 2 1/2 months, she would come out of the bedroom and look down the hallway a little bit.  I don't even want to think about the treatment she must have lived through for her first three years!  She no longer runs and hides at the first sign of a man, and she is gaining some confidence.  From the beginning, she has accepted (and demanded respect from) the dog and other kitties.

    Zoey rules the house with an iron paw.  She has taken up snoozing either in Per's Lazy Boy or on Ian's body.     What a change from a man-fearing cat to the boys being her preferred humans!

    Mary Ellen's Projects

    		 There is way too much to keep Mary Ellen (owner and drill sergeant at the farm) busy.  She has a full time career as a renal dietitian in an outpatient dialysis clinic.  At home, are the farm chores, 2 teenage sons, a husband, 3 border collies, many kitties, 4 parakeets, several aquariums, and the farm animals to think about.  Online, there is the shopping cart for the business.  There are also responsibilities at her church as lay leader, pianist and choir director.  She is dawdling around getting the church cookbook compiled as well.......

    Hobbies for relaxation time are:  knitting, crocheting, reading, learning bobbin lacemaking, and SOON to learn how to turn wood on a mini lathe and maybe....just maybe....learn how to make her own drop spindles and lace bobbins.

    Pictures of our home as well as remodeling projects from a few years back are also available for viewing.

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