In various old fairy tales, a “year and a day” is an important length of time – whether it’s the length of a magic curse, how long somebody has to complete a task, or simply the accepted length of time to remain in mourning (which is much more humane than… Read More »A Year and a Day
Last weekend I did a little strategic stash augmenting. First, I ordered a rainbow braid of Shetland wool from The Caledonian Wool Co. The shop is owned by Jam, an awesome person I met last year at Shetland Wool Week. Her shop opened just weeks later in Fort Williams. Funnily…… Read More »Paint Box
Progress and Casualties First, the progress: I’m on 4/4 turtles in the Ocean Rain top from John Arbon Textiles: The spindle I’m using here is one I’ve had a rockier relationship with. It’s made by Subterranean Woodworks and feels well balanced, but I’ve never felt like I was getting it… Read More »Spinning Campaign Report
If you’ve been following the blog, you know I’ve been working on spinning yarn to use in a brioche scarf for TheEnabler. However, we only found one of the colors needed back in April at the Wonderwool Wales festival and because of the multi-colored nature of the top, we wanted… Read More »More fluffies
