As I’ve been stumblingly re-learning old skills and learning new ones, guzzling down new information and finally practicing ideas I’d only understood abstractly, I realized something. I didn’t think of myself as a spinner. I felt like a poser – I had the stuff, but not the love. It’s been so long since I’ve made time for … More Owning It: Goals for Spinning 2017
By now I’m sure you are all sick of hearing about my precious Blendlings! If you’ve stuck through all this reading, all these nerdy ramblings and color speculations, thank you. It means a lot for me to write about this learning journey in this little corner of my life. The work/spiritual side of my life is … More Blendlings: Conclusions and Reflections
Yesterday, I explained my inspiration; today, I explain my plan. A few years ago, a friend of mine was destashing, moving on to do more weaving than spinning, and gifted me all kinds of goodies. Many of them I passed on to those who will use them sooner, but for some reason, I held onto … More Blending Adventure: Intro Part 2
Over the last several years, I’ve knit a lot of socks. Like, a lot of socks. Over 30 pairs since June 2010, and more before that. As I knit them, I blogged about them, and gave some opinions on the yarns I was using. (You can see most of these posts and socks if you look … More Sock Yarn Longevity: A Few Reviews – Socks that Rock
This, the penultimate, the Eleventh Day of Christmas Knitting, brings us down to the number two. Two is the number of feet most humans are born with, and also the number of children I have, and ergo squares to the total number of socks my mother knit my children for Christmas. Mum has began an … More Two Pairs of Kid Socks
I am in sight of catching up on these twelve days of Christmas; I won’t stop now! Like the previous post, the number nine belongs to Mum, and numbers horizontal bands of color. Mum’s gift to the junior princess in this household was a cozy sweater in nine colors of sock yarn. M is a deserving … More Nine Sweater Sock Stripes
The race to the Olympic finish was something else. I paced myself carefully those last few days, pulling a couple very late nights to meet a benchmark for the day. The real risk, at the very end, was running out of dark brown. I had decided to do the full length on the bottom hem, … More BrownSands and Ravellenic Gold
The Olympics are coming! The Olympics are coming! Okay, that was a fairly American reference for Canada’s latest fan. As you may know, I get kind of excited about the Olympics, and its companion knitting event. Originally the “Knitting Olympics,” evolved to the “Ravelympics,” now due to copyright issues, the title is officially the “Ravellenic … More Rio, Here We Come
Hello friends. I let all of July slip past me without blogging, didn’t I?* In truth, it’s been a doozy of a transition back to life in Iqaluit. It’s been a time to focus on family, resting, re-visioning, processing recent events, preaching a series of children’s sermons, and enjoying being outside as much as possible. … More Trees
Pretty much as expected, last Friday (July 3rd), this was my view as we headed north. Conversely, this was my completely unexpected view headed south, the following Tuesday. Let me explain. The harried, bittersweet process of packing all our stuff for the sealift ended at 11 p.m. on Thursday, July 2. Jared took the day … More The Unexpected
Osborn Fiber Studio 