The Blendlings are a series of small skeins of handspun I am making, in order to study color, learn combination drafting, and improve my spinning by studying and adjusting my practices in small amounts. For a fuller project description, click here. The firstborn Blending is a bit of a mess, but that’s to be expected. … More The First Blendling: Chubby Pink
Good grief, I have been wordy this weekend! So much for short posts. The truth is, all this going on about colors and fuzzy things and inspiration has been leading up to this, a two-part intro for another series of short posts. This time, about some experiments I’ve been doing on color and spinning. When … More Blending Adventure: Intro Part 1
This crazy thing happened to me last week. I was sitting down for a little knitting break while Jared was watching the kids on our day off, and I wanted some light reading while I redid that wonky square on the Mitered Magnificence. Maybe it was the nine colors of mohair on my lap, but … More Color Study, Self Study
The last few inches of my handspun Lothlorien were completed while watching, for the third or fourth time, all the most obscure DVD extras on the LotR:FotR:EE. Not for the first time, I think to myself that the Lord of the Rings Films are, to a slice of my generation, our equivalent of Star Wars. … More Not Idly Do the Leaves of Lorien Fall
For Mother’s Day, my children gave me the best gift children can give: that is, they were healthy, affectionate, happy offspring. Then they gave me the second best Mother’s Day gift children can give: time to myself. Down in the land of my birth, Mother’s Day weekend is also Maryland Sheep and Wool weekend. This … More Mother’s Day Roses
Here I had all this knitting packed, and for the remainder of our travels, I only knit on one thing. It all started with this yarn, spun by my mom and plied by me. (Funnily enough, plied when N was almost the exact age that M is now.) The gobstopper yarn, as I have called … More Travel Knitting: Vaycays
If you don’t care about yarn, scroll to the bottom for the punchline. I’ll save you the time. After a serious push, my 4-ply gradient cable yarn is done. The final moments of the second set of two-plies: Four beautiful balls of two-ply gradient, that I couldn’t stop staring at (at least, for the five … More Scroll Down for News
EDIT: A few things marked sold are now available again. Because of some snafus in communications with recipients, I’m going to leave things marked as available until payment is received. Thanks for understanding. Here it is! My beauties that I am ready to let go. That I hope will give someone else more joy than they … More A Destash
We are at EDD +4 today. Surprisingly, my calm increases as the days pass, as the inevitability of little Pat’s birth draws comfortingly closer, and as pre-labor progresses at its own impossibly slow rate. I think, with N, I just didn’t have time to get this uncomfortable. She was breech until 39 weeks, so I … More Progress, Slow but Sure
It’s the feast of the Annunciation today. I’m still pregnant, though who knows if I will still be pregnant by the end of the day. Yesterday, our due date, came and went without much fanfare. I did find out I’ve been accepted as a postulant for ordination in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh – a … More Still Spinning My Wheels – Proverbially and Figuratively
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