Finally, Mom and I have a chance to have a spinning retreat! To celebrate, we’ve prepared a couple of fiber-related posts for you to read while we’re spinning away, since we’ll be having too much fun to write new posts. Mom gets the first crack. ~Reb Just for fun, I (Mom) thought I’d tell you … More Fiber Fiesta
I woke up yesterday in desperate need of a me party. A party by myself. With no guests but me, my wheel, and a pound and a half of singles waiting to become a super-bulky 3-ply. If I could spin balanced singles, this yarn evidently would be an adorably self-striping light worsted. I can’t, and … More Fiesta de Mi
The saga of Avoidant Spinning (and its corollary, Avoidant Blogging) continues. For most of last week, the Yarn Room was about the only room I could spend any time in without feeling oppressed by the unpacking still to be done. So I pulled out some roving that had been languishing in the stash for over … More Towering Sunflowers
By a fluke of personality, I avoid work with more work. Lately, my favorite avoidance technique has been spinning. Stuff to pack? Sit down behind the [spinning] wheel for a little bit. Got some intense knitting deadlines? Let’s spin in front of the TV instead. June term books to read? Jared, you read them out … More Just Plain Bad Luck
So much. The burning fire of a thousand suns knoweth not my fury for disassembling our residence, with all its detritus, and manually transporting every last bit of it to a new location. To say nothing of cleaning our former residence, wishing I had kept it in better shape to begin with, and slightly resenting … More I Hate Moving.
I knew it would happen eventually. Packing just gets to me. The house is in disarray, I can’t find important things, and all the required tasks overlap each other in causality, putting me in weird catch 22s. Like how I have to pack the rest of the living room if I’m to have any hope … More This Is How I Lose It
I used to think that sampling – spinning a little bit to experiment with what you’re going to do – sounded like the most boring thing one could possibly do with a spinning wheel. Be fastidious? Make a bunch of different samples to try all the different variables before you start on a project? Boring! … More On Dating a Spinning Project
It’s “Mom.” I haven’t written for a while because I’ve been dyeing like crazy and test knitting for Rebecca’s designs. I’m not a passionate writer like her….I’d rather DO the thing, not write about it. But I AM now a passionate spinner! One year ago we bought “Red” and “Blondie” as you may remember. This … More Wheel Spinning from a Passionate Newbie
I got a surprise this morning, while catching up on the blogs I usually read. Spin Artiste is a blog that interviews fiber artists, particularly spinners. And this week, she interviewed the amazing lady who, among a bajillion other things, produced the yarn I am using for my Tongues of Fire mystery knit-along! It turns … More A Little Linky
Blogging from the trenches here! The flooding is under control, and we have the green light to move all the non-flooded rescued stuff from the basement into the new house. Now we just have to find time to do that tomorrow and still finish final papers, whee!! We’ll be fine. I’ll just be really glad … More Sheep & Wool: Orderly prizewinning
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