This year I made an effort to prepare for Tour de Fleece. By which I mean I got it together enough to join a team on Ravlery: Team Spindlers 2019. It made sense to me since it means my team mates are fellow spindlers. Yet again, I realized this was… Read More »Tour de Fleece 2019
I feel like I’m over the hump on my cardigan (or is that two humps?) I’m past the bust now, which means I’ve finished all my bust dart increases (and corresponding decreases) as well as my short rows. When I try it on, it looks good. The front edges stay… Read More »Over the hump
Know what’s great? When you learn that a friend/family member/colleague or similar has decided to take up knitting (or crochet, spinning, etc…). Why? A couple reasons. The first is frankly probably the most important: I genuinely believe fiber and textile arts/crafts to be really fullfilling and fantastic pursuits. They involve… Read More »Putting on my enabler hat
This trip thus far has been lots of fun, but also provided a decent amount of crafting time so far. I was waffeling a bit if I’d over packed the crafts, but I think I got it just right. That is to say, just enough too much that I’m not… Read More »A good craftcation
It occured to me that, while I showed you what I bought at Wonderwool Wales, I didn’t show much about what I worked on. You’re probably thinking I just added to my stash but didn’t get any crafting done. Not true! I think I actually got a nice bit of… Read More »I did get stuff done, really
A little while back somebody at my knitting group asked about the spindle I was using and how much I paid. I gave an estimate of around $70 as I don’t remember the exact price, and several people were really surprised. Some don’t spin, and thus have no point of… Read More »Don’t underestimate the spindle
We had a lovely four day weekend for the Easter Holiday. Ok, so I had a lovely four day weekend, TheEnabler had some work to complete before we leave for Wales on Friday. Because I appreciate his sacrifice in working more this weekend so he won’t have to work during our… Read More »Stash tossing and trip planning
I realized I might not be getting enough spinning done when I found myself twisting the car fur I cleaned out of the cat brushes into little lengths of yarn. This weekend, I correct a bit for this spinning deficit. We had a lovely warm and sunny weekend this weekend.… Read More »Finally, some spinning
This week I’ve been playing a bit with making bouclé yarns. I’ve had a bunch of mohair top and mohair locks sitting around with just that plan in mind, but had not yet gotten around to giving it a try. A couple weekends ago, I finally bought my last “ingredients”: silk… Read More »Bouclé
TheEnabler and I replentished our squash stores this weekend. There were butternut squashes back in our grocery store and we pounced on a pumpkin we saw at one of the small grocers downtown with a feeling of relief. We’d come to the realization that we would only have one pies’ worth… Read More »Renewed Food Stores
