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. This spin starts as a box of greasy old batts. These have sat in different closets of mine for lo these eight years. Can I dig up … More 7 of 51 Yarns: Both Coats of Icelandic
There’s nothing like a Holy Thursday service to put in perspective being miserable at church. I live the experience of many parents who bring their young kids to church. I am fortunate that our current congregation has become very welcoming toward children. But tonight was Holy Thursday. The service started at the kids’ bedtime, and … More Carried
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. Last time I shared about my experience separating the two coats of a bit of Icelandic fleece and spinning the outer coat or Tog. Today I’ll share … More 6 of 51 Yarns: Icelandic Thel
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. The next three yarns are all about dual-coated sheep. This is the last stop in the first section of the book, which is all about the general … More 5 of 51 Yarns: Icelandic Tog
M turns 4 today. This kid! She looks so small in photographs, but she’s so big in real life. She’s incredibly powerful, loving, generous, strong-willed, intelligent, and mischievous. An episode yesterday was perfectly illustrative: she argued her way into my room (where I was having a lie down to recover from a headache) because she … More Four and Bananas
What can a pair of boots… mean? That’s what I keep asking myself as a sit down to write this post. They mean the end of a journey that started with a promise: a promise to make my husband kamiik. And they mean he had faith in me to follow through when we invested in … More Fourth Pair
This is the last of these posts, which have become a little end of the month ritual. It’s been fun to have a little present to look forward to each month. It’s made me appreciate how not just this, but a really large portion of my spinning habit (to say nothing of my other crafts), … More Club Mom Reveal: March
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. This post is coming a month and a half later than planned. That’s because, while I had a gloriously typical Down wool experience, I kept having intriguingly … More 3 of 51 Yarns: Longwool Outliers
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 learned about Down wool a couple of years ago, soon after I started following Rachel. Since then I have read the special issue of PLY magazine … More 4 of 51 yarns: Suffolk Down Wool
What’s the point of a self-imposed goal if you can’t ignore it now and then? I didn’t finish my spinning goal for February, but I decided, ah chuck it, and opened the special February package on the 28th. I had two helpers this time. They are such little clones! M was very curious but knew … More Club Mom: February Reveal
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