When my brain needs soothing and my wrists and arms need a break, I turn to spinning as my solace. Since borrowing the wheel, I’ve been acquiring fiber at an alarming rate since I can now spin a 3 or 4 ounce glob of fiber in a relatively short time period. I came home from […]
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Stash Enhancement Philosophy
To soothe my bruised ego I went to Three Wishes this weekend to buy some goodies. I meant to buy yarn that was on sale, but none of it was speaking to me quite like the spinning fiber. I ended up buying some Wasatch Watercolors rovings, one a blend of purples, black and a hint […]
TNNA Post #3: Coming Home and the recovery knitting
Something that should have been in yesterday’s post, but I forgot. In the exhibit hall there in the Conjoined Creations booth there was a familiar site! (apologies for the craptastic photo) They had sold a lot of their soysilk laceweight yarn (Pastimes, the hand painted version and Pastimes, Too, the solid version) using Icarus as […]
Smitten
As you may recall, I decided to buy a spinning wheel this year. I got an e-mail from my lovely friend Isela telling me that she was interested in getting rid of the wheel she got for her birthday in 2005. I guess she just never caught the bug 🙂 She offered to let me […]
Year in Review
This may be terribly boring to you guys, so if it gets boring, go ahead and skip it. It’s mostly just a place for me to mark my goals so I can keep track of them and my progress toward them. 2006 Revisited I was looking back at my blog archives and seeing what my […]
FO, almost FO and spun fluff!
The FO (hat): Pattern: Susan‘s Live Dangerously, Don’t Swatch hat with a k3p1 rib and an attached I-cord bind-off. You can glean the pattern for free from her November Archives, or she’s now got it as a pdf for $3.00. Yarn: Plymoth Galway Worsted Wool (not sure what color any more) Needles: Size 6 Brittany […]
Weekend Report and FO
For navel gazing, click on the cut. For the knitting content, here you go: Apologies for the crap photo… not a lot of light yet. Plus Dark Gray socks are notoriously hard to photograph. Anyway, these are Gift socks for a good friend. He has proven himself a worthy recipient of handknits (one half of […]
Icarus Shawl pattern Available! and SALE!
A few of housecleaning bits: Thought you all might like to know, that the Icarus Shawl pattern is FINALLY available as a download! You can find more information here as it is now in the shop. The link has also been added to the sidebar under “Design Portfolio”. I understand that issue of Interweave has […]
Beautiful Beyond Words
This, my friends, is my new love. I’ve been carrying it around with me so I can pull it out and pet it. I’ve been showing it to strangers! This is my very best handspun yarn. For those curious, it is Spunky Eclectic Almost Solid BFL Roving in the Red Maple color. I
Ketchup Catch Up
I have a lot to show you, but the sun just barely came out (and blinded me through my VERY west-facing window) so I haven’t been able to take any good pictures. I spun my very best yarn this weekend (a whole 1.5 ounces of fingering weight! And another 2.5 ounces to go) and I […]
