This trip, I took a lot of video clips instead of so many pictures. This means I don’t have a lot of pictures to show you of what I actually did. You can now see the video I put together on Rachel’s latest livestream! The montage starts at 6:59, linked in the show notes. Another … More Vancouver 2023 – Fibers West Friday
There’s so much to write about my week in Vancouver. So much that I don’t even know where to start! This trip, I took a lot of video clips instead of so many pictures. This means I don’t have a lot of pictures to show you of what I actually did. You can now see … More Vancouver 2023 – Granville Island
March…. oh my word, March. I esplain. … no, is too much. I sum up. Lots of things happened, many of which will get their own blog post later. But I’ll sum up for you, so you know I’m ok, and that… yeah… a new month is about to start… and I’m alive. Sheesh! Teaching … More March 2023 Round-Up: I Mean, Life
I finished a few really pretty things last week! First I’ll show you the Shakerag Top, by Amy Christoffers. This was a design I had eyed since it came out a few years ago, since before the name of the publication it’s in was changed to “Modern Daily Knitting.” I thought it would be a … More Too Pretty to Wear
After that big Stash Toss post I did yesterday, I feel like this post should be really easy, right? We’ll see. The Fam Jam Assuming nothing else happens today, the kids will have been at school for a grand total of 9.5 days this month. Because we had car troubles, for Dooner, that was 4 … More February 2023 Round-up
When Rachel started talking about doing an accounting of her stash on the last episode of WnS, a little light went on in my brain. Ping! I was starting to feel that itch. Not of too much stash, actually, but of too many projects. I remember the last time I felt like this, about ten … More Stash Toss 2023
I completely forget how many times I have shared this exact picture. Well, now I finally get to share this picture. I did not, in the end, achieve the fine control I was hoping for to get a DK-weight yarn rather than a heavy-fingering. But because I had sampled so much, when it came to … More Superfine Merino is Finished
The kids were supposed to go back to school on January 3rd. But between heating fluid leaks at the school, extreme cold closures, and professional development day, the elementary school has been open a grand total of 11.5 days this month. Subtract another couple of days for illness, and the fact that I don’t make … More January 2023 Round-Up: Not Much School
In this post, I demonstrate that a pair of red skeins: Has become a pair of red socks. I love how dramatically, drastically different these socks are. With an analogous colourway, the colours are not competing with each other as much as they would do in a more wildly variegated colourway. If you want to … More SCS+BCS: Orange-Red Top Socks
Hi guys, This is more of a newsy post! Backstory: Rachel at Wool n’ Spinning started an audio podcast about six years ago to go with her Youtube show. She gave it up about six months ago, but now with me joining the team, we’ve decided to start it up again. I talked her into … More Wool n’ Spinning Radio: Episode 89 (the first!)
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