If you are not familiar with it, Tour de Fleece is an event for spinners which occurs along side Tour de France. They bike, we spin. The rules are pretty open, but generally spinners set goals for themselves and spin every day. I have not historically participated in Tour de… Read More »Tour de Fleece – Modest Ambitions and a Late Start
First, I am absolutely loving the socks I’m working on for myself. These are the ones I started on the way back from Utrecht on the train in Hedgehog Fibres hurricane colorway. I need some darker colored socks and these will be gorgeous. If I have any regrets, it’s only… Read More »Socks and more socks
When you move abroad you know there will be some surprises. Things like needing to buy ceiling lights and find an electrician for our rented apartment (if you are from Germany just know that American apartments don’t come with wires hanging from the ceiling – there are lights installed already)… Read More »Adding some coziness
I only had a day to explore Utrecht and Amsterdam. Besides my little yarn crawl (see previous post) I wanted to check out something touristy but also educational. A colleague recommended MUSEUM ONS’ LIEVE HEER OP SOLDER, a museum of a Catholic House Church. The top three levels of three combined… Read More »Our Lord in the Attic – not old chests of dusty clothes
Last Wednesday TheEnabler and I headed off to the Netherlands via train. A key part of packing for any trip is determining what craft projecs to bring. My approach? Bring just a little too much because you never know. I speak from experience from the time that a quick overnight trip… Read More »Going to the Netherlands – How much to bring and buy?
So in my first post I posed three packing questions: “What to take?”, “What to destash?”, and “What to leave?” I answered the first one and the last one, but didn’t cover destashing! Why not? Frankly, in the end I didn’t have much to destash. Either I am: A) Incredibly… Read More »What to Destash + Books
