Mom Learns to Spin

At the Sheep and Wool Festival of 2006, I bought a drop spindle and a bag of carded llama wool.  I struggled to learn how to use it.  The directions that came with the spindle were not enough, and I wasn’t aware of youtube yet.  My local yarn shop did not give lessons in spinning, … More Mom Learns to Spin

Hollow Complaints

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

Double or Nothing

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

Carpe Dium

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

History

The first fiber I ever spun was Wensleydale. The story starts a few days before Christmas, 2008. Jared & I, being the token young couple at St. Timothy’s Church, were asked to be Mary and Joseph in a living nativity sort of event. A few people connected with the church who owned farm-y sort of … More History

Hunched

Today I have for you a fix and a ramble. Clue #2 of my In Dreams Mystery Shawl is almost done. This is an amazingly bead-heavy clue – I think Jonica (she is working on two of the things! Holy crap) worked out that there are 912 beads on just this clue. These are worked … More Hunched