What signs of spring do you see out your window? Daffodils or crocuses? Do you live in the southern hemisphere – and if so, what is your fall like right now? My signs of spring are rather different than those I grew up with. Freezing rain, blizzards, muck boots, lichen, ice fishing, skidoo and 4-wheeler … More A Sign of Spring
April is usually a bit of a headache, since four out of five household birthdays are in April. In that way, this year’s silver lining is that the pressure was off. I made nice desserts and favorite dinners for everyone, and I’d really already had my birthday treats in Vancouver. I wonder, when all this … More April Roundup 2020: Quiet Birthdays
Sometimes you get on a roll. Sometimes that roll involves a literal rolling motion. That is what has been happening in this house. It started with my finished Icelandic lopi-style spin. It felt so good to get that spin done – especially since it went so quickly, after sitting around for so long! After my … More Carding Party
Yesterday I shared my prep for a new sock spin: two color explorations of an analogous blue-green braid of Targhee from Craftyjaks. The awesome thing about a spin like this, where I’m experimenting in more than one way, is that it chunks the spin into manageable, exciting pieces. Even spinning quite fine (for me), I … More Ten Day Sock Spin: Spin
One of the (few) disappointments of my trip to Vancouver was that, with the cancellation of Fibres West, I missed out on a class I had signed up for. Rachel was going to do an all-day workshop on her and Katrina’s book, Unbraided: The Art and Science of Spinning Colour, which is all about managing … More Ten-Day Sock Spin: Prep
This post is part of a spin-along through 51 Yarns by Jacey Boggs Faulkner, in the Wool n’ Spinning community. For other posts in this series, check here. I spun these yarns way back at the beginning of April, but it took the rest of the month for me to get around to swatching them! … More 30 and 31 of 51 Yarns: S to Z and Back
I’m behind on blog entries, because for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been too preoccupied with actually spinning to bother writing about it! Not at all a bad problem to have. When I finished knitting up the socks I spun for in February/March, I was so jazzed about them that I wanted to start … More Icelandic Sweater Spin
