This is just a little note to tell you, I’ve hit “It” again. The Yarn Harlot talks about “It” – usually associated with the Christmas season – when you realize you have so much to do and so little time to do it that you are going to have to carefully schedule every hour of … More Public Service Announcement
Happy almost-Pentecost! This Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the newborn church, fifty days after the Resurrection. The Easter season is coming to a close, and we enter into the second half of the liturgical calendar, in which we focus on growth and walking in the way of the cross in … More Spirited
I have been knitting. But I have also been: Planting seedlings. Watering the seedlings of others. Transplanting seedlings. Playing with power tools. [As an aside: check out the beginnings of my magnificent sunburn. This happens to me about once a year. June or so rolls around, I am still pasty white, and I congratulate myself … More Other Activities
Finally! I know it has been an interminably long wait, but at long last the OFS yarn store is back online. The yarn has been re-acquired, inventoried, re-inventoried, and the pages have been updated, spruced up, and double checked. Almost nothing sold out at Sheep & Wool, so you have a full selection at your … More New yarn, Sale yarn, Custom yarn
Much of the 15 or so hours spent in the car last week was spent doing garter stitch while reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire aloud to my spouse. But when he could do without listening to the kerfuffle surrounding the Quidditch World Cup, I cranked out clue 5 of In Dreams. This … More Suspense
Foosh. What a weekend. It was one of those crazy wedding weekends, in which I was about as involved as one could be without being a bridesmaid or an immediate relative, and it was so fun. Bethany, of shawl fame, tied the knot on Saturday in high Catholic fashion, and it was a good time. … More Flowers and Foreshadowing
Finally, the sisters met. We are calling them Blondie and Redwood (Red for short). Hopefully this won’t be too offensive to anyone with red or blond hair, as both of their spinners are brunettes. Setting them side by side is the easiest way to tell the difference between the two flier types. For starters, Blondie … More Double and Single Drive
Though you wouldn’t know it from reading this blog, I have actually been knitting. It just gets a little photographically dull when the thing you are working on looks largely the same from day to day, you know? The knitting hasn’t been dull, though. With every fully-focused moment I can spare, I’ve been chipping away … More Hollow Complaints
It’s always comforting to know that a big investment was well-timed. For the past eight months or so before Lent, my spinning had been languishing. This is primarily because I bit off way more than I could chew. I had dyed a whole bunch of Dorset pencil roving in the color we call “Sprout Sage” … More Double or Nothing
So I think I’m finally ready to talk about it without hyperventilating and making high-pitched noises. The story of how Mum bought two spinning wheels in one weekend is complex, but it ends with both of us taking home a box that looks like this: Ever since I knew what it was, I have wanted … More Carpe Dium
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