From processing fleece to knitting with handspun, and everything in between.
I love plying. Well, okay, maybe I don’t actually love plying that much. It’s tedious and fussy, and I find myself frequently racked with self-doubt about things like consistency, relative angles, and twists per inch. (We will ignore the fact that these anxieties would be easily remedied by actually taking a class, or sampling.) But … More Just Exactly
My ongoing project remains getting my UFOs down to a manageable level, so I can start my “next big thing” with a minimum of guilt. I sucked it up and ripped out the three projects that just weren’t ever going to be finished. Here is the hard (well, really pretty soft) evidence: The poor crochet sweater … More Paring Down
Spinning is a gift to myself. Specifically, it’s a gift of time, to make something beautiful out of time that is not being shared with anything else. Since time is increasingly precious to me, it only makes sense to spin the most beautiful things that make me the most cheerful. This merino/silk braid from Fiber … More Spun Time
When I was a little kid, my uncle lived with my grandparents, and when we went to visit them, my uncle would take my on adventures. My favorite thing was when he would bungee a throw pillow to the luggage rack of his bike, and I’d ride precariously on it while he biked us to … More Everlasting Gobstoppers
It has been a whirlwind couple weeks of hard work and fun, and I have so much catching up to do! In the past two weeks we have finished the spring semester, I finished a couple crazy projects, Jared graduated, Naomi got baptized … and I’ve started on homework for the summer term. I finally … More Making Mothers’ Day Memories
Sheep and Wool, Sheep and Wool! The Maryland festival is my own personal Christmas for the year, so even with a 10-week-old baby, we weren’t about to miss it if at all possible. We were all feeling well enough to attempt it, so on Friday up we packed and out we went. Upon reflection, it … More Sheep and Wool and Baby
From Mom: I have one brother, Rebecca’s uncle: the one who, when she was between the ages of 3 and 10, would walk away with her at a party and not tell anyone. “Where IS she?” I would ask. Then I would find out that Richard was missing too, and I would know she was on … More Ten Brother Colors
Sweetwater submissions are finally done and in. I have a couple Christmas commissions to finish up, and one more I haven’t started yet, but I can finally breathe a little – I am going to make it. One of my categories of stuff that I’m submitting to this art show is a bit of a … More A Little Mane of Sunshine
From Mum! ~Reb My dyeing career began with an alpaca fleece, and this weekend is the Maryland Alpaca Festival, so it’s appropriate that I should share what I did next with that fleece after dyeing it. Joyce from Alpaca Joy is a neighbor, and so was there at Highland Day to sell me my very … More Alpaca Madness
A week ago, something truly and deeply random happened to me. I was featured in an article in the local paper. I thought it was just going to be in the Sewickley Herald, but the paper copy Barb W. saved for me is from the “Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.” You can read the article here. (The best … More In the Post
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