What a beautiful day it was here today in New Hampshire! Early this morning I journeyed down to Southern New Hampshire to visit again with people who breed and show English Setters. My drive brings me thru a little town called Meredith (town over from Patternworks), which surrounds a portion of Lake Winnipesaukee. The weather was slightly cool and the sun was brilliant, making for a wonderful day to be out traveling.
Bob and Francie Stevens of Fieldplay English Setters have been so kind in allowing me to visit with them and learn about this 
sweet and beautiful breed. Such nice people and so very likeminded about the things that I feel are important when it comes to raising dogs. I so enjoyed my visit!!
I am looking forward to new challenges and am excited about the possibility of learning how to show a bigger breed. Now, in order to show a bigger breed, one has to RUN around a ring, as opposed to the comfortable walking gait when showing a Cavalier……..of course you know what that means. I NEED TO GET IN SHAPE! Sarah, the girl to the right is due to have babies in November and if she has more than one nice girl, one may come here…….that gives me…..um…..5 months to whip this chubby body into shape. Hmm………perhaps Mr. Woolen Rabbit and I will go dancing this NY’s Eve 😉
Now as you may have guessed, given that I had to drive right thru
Concord, a trip to the Elegant Ewe was in order. I was a good girl, though…….
As you can see, not one stitch of yarn came home with me……however, there is a set of Rosewood 1.5 needles, Nancy Bush’s new sock book (which is fabulous!!) and a circular needle for the new shawl, that has been patiently waiting for me to finish the Koigu shawl (see, I am getting better at not starting too many projects before finishing others……..I am trying).
If you look on the pumpkin, there is the neatest shawl/sweater pin made out of pewter. I just HAD to bring it home, but not as a pin….haha. When I get those pesky Hot Flashes, I quickly reach for the nearest douple pointed needle and pull my hair up, and then promptly forget about it until I catch sight of the piece of wood sticking out of my head in my rear view mirror……..eekkk! At least this kind of looks like it belongs in my hair….LOL!
And finally………what kind of yarn are you??
You are Merino Wool.
You are very easygoing and sweet. People like to
keep you close because you are so softhearted.
You love to be comfortable and warm from your
head to your toes.
What kind of yarn are you?
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The Woolen Rabbit 
OH! poor you, being close to patternworks! 🙂 And Elegant Ewe! That is exactly the book I am pining for lately. Thumbs up?
You crack me up with needles in your hair! 🙂 There is nothing worse than those hot flashes. Ask me how I know…
I’ve told you before, and I’ll tell you again, I LOVE The bunny pics. Nordic star light (of the previous post) and his sis are too cute. Almost makes me want a bunny or two. Almost. Then I remember my one bunny experience. Have I told you?
He sprayed. Everyone. And everything. ICK. It was icky. We got him from someone who he sprayed. But he only sprayed her so she thought if someone else took him it would stop.Um. No. He then did it all the time. To everyone. And everything. All day. Every day.
Ick. I had a raincoat to wear while feeling and cleaning up after him.
So, I’ll be content to see your adorable pictures!
🙂
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I am Mohair???? (warm and fuzzy type) Gimme a break – I’m allergic to the stuff.
Setters are miles apart from Caveliers. I hope you get one! It will be so much fun to watch the learning curve. 🙂 (Easy for me to say… Said the girl who’s never shown a dog in conformation.)
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english setters are so reagal looking. love the hairstick 🙂
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yikes, regal, not reagal 😉
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I love Meredith N.H.! We went there for a short visit last year, and now I’m working on my husband to retire to New Hampshire, but he is afraid of the winters. I grew up in Wisconsin, so I love winter. I have 10 years to work on him….
Beautiful dogs! I’ll look you up in 10 years and buy one of your puppies P-)
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I think the stick looks very ecclectic!
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No hot flushes here yet, but it’s one sure way of knowing where I’m putting my sock needles whilst I make dinner! I missed your gorgeous shawl too, beautiful!
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Well, Meredith is right next to Center Harbor, home of Patternworks. I hope you visited there as well.
My BIL and SIL have had English Setters for years and they are wonderful dogs.
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I love English setters. They can be very daft dogs though, but so good humoured. They have big, laughing faces I think 🙂
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You ARE truly Merino wool. You’ll love Nancy’s book. Fall is just the best time of year and you should have some color soon, right?
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I do love The Elegant Ewe! I’ve yet to visit patternworks though.
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I use dpns too to put my hair up – I have real hair pins to do this with but a dpn is what always what I have at hand when the need arises. One problem with this habit though is that very often I have to search high and low to find the last needle of a set and I know I’ve used it in my hair and set it down someplace odd. Love the shawl by the way.
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Going English? Looks like a great choice of breeder and breed to be working with. I’ll be watching with interest!
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Just found your site, and I want roving and hand cream and soap and the setters. Yay!
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pout….Took the quiz….But I don’t want to be “dishcloth cotton”!!!!
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