After months of planning, dyeing, spinning, knitting, cataloguing, vlogging, with a finishing touch of lots of sewing, my Year of Colour project is done. 110 hexagons: 51 from samples spun from single colourways, and 59 from combo drafts of different colourways. By my somewhat rough calculation, I spun 1,881 yards of DK-weight combo drafted yarn. … More All About Skep
The fall flew by. December is always so busy. Even January had enough deadline and events to buzz past. But this month, February, finally ground to a crawl. Every December, I look forward to the deep winter. January, February, and March are just less demanding. I did the math, and on a very good week … More February 2024 Round-Up: Deep Slow Winter
You know, one day, I will finish something and post it on here, and it won’t have a super-long back story. Today is not that day. When I started spinning again, in January of 2017, I got sucked deep into the world of Instagram. Instagram is a world of marketing, and I was particularly sucked … More Solaris Vest
So for the Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs book study we’re doing over at Wool n’ Spinning, we’re offering two ways to spin along as we go through the book. You can, of course, go through the book and spin sample by sample. But not everyone is in a sampling place, so we created “Track … More Capstone Sweater: Fiber and Prep
This post was meant to publish on January 2nd! I don’t know why, but this is the second time I had thought I posted it and came back later to find it in my drafts folder. Oh well, better late than never! I’ve been writing through the last several turnings of the year, reflecting and … More Looking Ahead to 2024
Here it is, already the last day of January! I have been hard at work, but… mostly with stuff I can’t show you. It’s been a massive month of finishing and testing new designs, and working ahead on cool stuff for the Wool Circle. The Wool Circle episodes, if you’re interested, were an initial discussion … More January 2024 Round-Up – Busy with Secrets
EDIT: I have enough testers now! Thank you to everyone who offered! Hello friends. My Super Secret Project is coming to a turning point, and I’m ready to ask pattern testers to help me out. I have ten patterns that need testing, all small. There are two SETS of accessories – meaning I’m looking for … More Call for Testers! Accessory Time
Happy New Year everyone! It’s the first day of a new year, but I’m not quite done looking back yet. You’ve maybe heard of a “Make 9” – an Instagram grid of 9 projects that you plan to make. I didn’t make one of those last year. But looking backwards instead of forwards, I decided … More Made 9 2023
For two years in a row now, I have come to write a reflection piece at the end of the year, and when looking at my intentions post from the beginning of the year, it seems like I was writing from another country. I wrote a learning plan for 2023, and wow, you guys. I … More 2023 by January’s Standards
I had one (1) goal for December this year: Keep Christmas simple enough that I could actually enjoy it. For me, I succeeded. There was stress, there was yelling, but much less than usual. There were coping mechanisms, there were screens, but there was not as much angst about it. We prepared the way for … More December 2023 Round-Up: Christmas Blast
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