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We have added additional patterns from old favorites as well as 4 new pattern lines: 

Knitting Pure and Simple, Jennifer Appleby, Two Old Bags, and Woodstock Woolworks.  Additions are made with each new order to these companies.  Keep checking back for new patterns on a regular basis.  We now have in stock the ENTIRE LINE of Knitting Pure and Simple patterns.

If you are looking for a specific one I don't yet carry, please ask and I will order it for you. 

If you love LACE, HeartStrings FiberArts is the extensive pattern line for you to check out.  We have many of her patterns.

ALSO:  Free Shipping on Knitting Stitch Markers and IN STOCK Spinning Wheels .  Local Pick-up of wheels will provide for a few bonus "freebies".

Cottage Creations' new 2009 pattern released in October:  Scandinavian Caps for the Guys!  Carol also published her memoirs.  Musings, Memories, Matrimony and more... is available for $16.00.  If you are a shop owner and cannot locate contact information for this pattern line (or others), I will be happy to share.  Over the past several years, I have probably helped over 50 shops with just this one bit of information.  We all benefit (knitters, shop owners, and their loved ones) when working together instead of refusing to help others.

Top 5 selling knitting pattern lines:

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

Pictured below are a few of the more 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

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, French Toulouse Geese, and a small flock of Buckeye Chickens live at the farm.  We have chicks, ducklings, and goslings available on a seasonal basis, and fertile eggs year-round (hens willing, that is).

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.

Each year, Mary Ellen has thrown out multiple wheelbarrows full of herbs to the sheep and compost piles.  Not being one to enjoy waste of great foods and location of a potential sales source for the dried herbs, she became more organized with the herbs she has grown for almost 30 years.  She also has added many herbs and mints during the summer months.  Mary Ellen has been drying these for enjoyment further than the farm with some success.  Ask about our jars of fresh-dried herbs, tins of 20 tea bags (many single and/or combination tastes) and herbal vinegars.  Check out Mary Ellen's Herbs at ISeeSpots Farm for more information.

Recipe:  Mary Ellen's version of a KopyKat version of Olive Garden's potato/sausage soup

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.

    Herbs Fresh and Dried

    		Mary Ellen has grown herbs for her own personal enjoyment and amazement since she was a teenager in Missouri.  Over the years, quite a collection has been procured, tested, and used. 

    During the summer of 2009, some of these herbs have been dried and made available to the public at J&S Farm, retail shop at the Triad Farmer's Market in Greensboro.  Stop in and meet John and Sue the next time you are near the western side of Greensboro, North Carolina. 

    Her sights are also set on adding to the gardening offerings in 2010 with a few plants, additional dried and fresh herbs, and herbal wine vinegars.  Contact Mary Ellen for availability from her extensive collection.

    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, 2 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 and pianist.  She is dawdling around getting the church cookbook compiled as well.......

    Hobbies for relaxation time are:  knitting, spinning, weaving, crocheting, reading, gardening, learning bobbin lacemaking, and learning how to turn wood on a mini lathe and maybe....just maybe....learn how to make her own drop spindles and lace bobbins.  Mary Ellen has gotten good at turning "Wraps per inch" gauges.  Each one is different in design, but each has a 1/2 inch, 1 inch, and 2 inch gauge to meet your every needs.

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

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