I have at least the standard amount of suck in my life, but every now and then I have to realize how blessed I really am. This is how I spent my afternoon: In the screened-in porch at Breezy Willow Farm, spending quality time with the blue Dorset fleece I dyed a few weeks ago … More How Cool Is My Life?!
After working for Seven Months to create a whole lot of very fine lace that is very consistent and well-behaved… I needed a break. I needed to spin something fat and pointless. Conveniently, about halfway through my lace plying, the latest copy of Spin Off showed up at work for our perusal, and peruse I … More Extra Cathartic
I sort of care about the World Cup. I care about it as an anthropologist – if a sport is fanatically adored by more or less the whole world except the US, I am inclined to be more interested. Also, my sis-in-law is The Soccer Fiend. (Except when we’re talking about the World Cup I … More How to Get Me to Care About Sports
There’s been a lot of plying going on around here lately. Both completely full bobbins of laceweight singles have become skeins of laceweight yarn, and I’m pretty happy with them. At least, I’m pretty happy with the first one – the one you saw on Sunday. The one I finished today after three episodes from … More Consistency
Spinning is immeasurably good for me. You may have heard that there are two kinds of knitters: process knitters and product knitters. They are fairly self-explanatory: Process knitters knit primarily for the joy of doing. They choose a project based on how fun it would be to do, they don’t care so much about the … More Plying Days
I like rules. Well, really, I like order, but I’m not very good at making order, so I like rules, because they make me feel like I have order without having to do anything about it. It’s like someone else is doing the work, even if it’s me coming up with the rules. In that … More This Whole Sock Thing
Yesterday afternoon I reached the halfway point in Undómiel’s beaded edging. That, I must say, is a wonderful feeling. A feeling worth two pictures: I decided to celebrate by “cutting the cord” so to speak, or rather the little belly-button of fake I-cord that was used to start this project back in… March? Oh dear; … More Cutting the I-cord
Bada bing, bada boom! I have not been idle in my absence. If you’ve been checking back for new posts, you at least saw the Evenstar ticker moving faithfully along – almost halfway done! But that’s not all: I finished Clocking the First on Sunday, less than a week after I’d started it. It’s been … More Poof! a sock.
After a major mishap with the beaded border on Undomiel, my Evenstar Shawl, the piece spent about a week on time-out with no border, no beads, looking pretty dejected. But as it was about the only work-approved project I had going on for a while, it wasn’t long before I pulled it back out. You … More Crochet-hook Beaded Knitting
I was all set to start on my first set of Nancy’s socks, “Stockings with Clocks,” when I arrived at work yesterday. I’d read enough of the pattern to know that the pattern was written for a man, but going down a needle size would make it fit a woman, so okay, that means 0’s. … More You probably don’t care this much, but I’ll give you the details anyway.
Osborn Fiber Studio 