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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!)
Hi all, if you have been curious about the podcasting work I have been doing at Wool n’ Spinning, but you are not a member of Rachel’s Patreon, I have a cool surprise for you. I recorded a bonus episode of The Wool Circle. It is going to Premiere, with live chat, on Monday, Dec. … More Boxing Day Surprise: Wool Circle Episode 83!
I wasn’t planning on doing a big planning post for next year. Last year’s was a bit of a farce, and while I didn’t take it too seriously, I also don’t want to look back at the end of next year and find a list of things I didn’t do. As part of my self-study … More Learning Plan 2023
2022 had two very distinct halves for me: before the May RV trip, and after the May RV trip. At the end of last year, I sat down and made a meta-make 9. Yeah, so, I was in fantasy land when I made that. It happens to me sometimes that when I’m sick, I get … More 2022 In Review: Change and Generativity
No colour in today’s Sock Study. Think of it as a palette cleanser between a whole year of studying analogous colourways, before I (eventually) get into spinning complementary colourways. Today, I share with you something completely different! Qiviut blend sock yarn. Oh this stuff! I esplain. No, is too much. I sum up. It started … More Sock (Colour) Study – Fingram Qiviut Blend Cabled Sock Yarn
Do you ever find it difficult to get into a particular mode of communication? It can’t just be me. When I’m on Facebook too much, I start thinking in Facebook statuses. When I read too much of a particular author, I start thinking in their words. Right now, I’m getting really into planning and making … More SCS+BCS: Blue-Green Top Socks
Today’s monthly round-up is brought to you by exhaustion, distraction, overwhelm, phone pictures, and the manifest prognostications of burnout. In other words, I’m going to be complaining today. I have a sermon and an article to write this afternoon, but I find my writing gets a lot better if I can work out my grumpiness … More November 2022 Round-Up: Work, Work, Work, and Play
October is the month that started with one last little harvest from our garden: And ended with a blizzard. We didn’t actually go trick-or-treating in that. We went the day after, when it was still -18 with winds 30 kph gusting 50, wind chill in the -30s. Ugh. Gotta work for your candy. There’s been … More October 2022 Round-Up: It Got Cold Fast
Let’s see if I can find my way back to the beginning of the story of this shawl. The year was 2013. The month was August or September, I forget which. Stringbean, then a tiny six-month old, had been in the hospital with a UTI. Being a new mother left me feeling completely shattered, all … More Dooner’s Girasole
September was the month where things really started rolling for me, but what did not really start rolling was… Dooner’s preschool. Also, we spent a good portion of the month with at least one of us battling the same cold. We’re hoping to all go to church together tomorrow for the first time after five … More September 2022 Roundup: All the New Things
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