In an effort to clean up things that I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about, here’s my purge! There’s some excitement and some acquisitions and some plain old every day stuff too 🙂 To start off with, I know this happened a long time ago (like… a month ago), but better late than never, […]
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Sleight of Hand
I can’t show you knitting, so I’ll show you spinning instead! Here is a blurry picture of the corriedale roving I’ve spun up. I’m only including it because the true color is somewhere between that picture and THIS one. Unfortunately, my desk is not the best lighted place for taking accurate colored photographs. All said […]
Look! Over there!!!
In the first of installments of my “Grand Scheme To Keep You Distracted While Knitting Un-Showable Pieces” – aka GSTKYDWKUSP – aka Operation “Look Over There!”, I now present to you some pictures from the depths of my camera’s digital memory card. This first one, C took. Just a Saturday (or possibly Sunday) sky as […]
On Pipe Dreams
My lovely, wonderful, good friend Kim (still miss you!) is in the process of posting some really great things about Pipe Dreams and daydreaming in general, and she asked for readers to post their own “pipe dreams”, especially if they could do anything at all for a living with no worry about money, then what […]
Spinning, Spinning, 1-2-3
I forgot to take a picture of my spindle, but here is the progress so far with the yarn. From left to right we have a merino silk blend (why I thought this would be a good thing to spin on my first REAL attempt, I will never know), the first attempt with the Icelandic […]
I admit it….
I’ve been holding out on you. Way back when (in June 2005, I think) I took a spinning class. The results and my enthusiasm were less than stellar. Partly, my teacher was someone who had proclaimed herself to be “not good at teaching” and partly becuase I prepared the fiber by myself in a half-assed […]
