Full Life/Full of Life

Or, reasons Twitter seems the only online activity I’ve been able to keep up with lately!
Traveling – NO, MDSW, Boone (no pics, lots of rain, some hiking, exceptionally relaxing), and Ocracoke. All these have made for very happy times, but very full schedules when we have been home. And now we are planning for San [...]

Sidetracks

Spinners, please help me!
I was struck by a sudden urge tonight to spin on a project I haven’t touched in months (with the exception of a brief and ill-fated attempt at the last spinning guild meeting – I blame the plying flyer I was using instead of the normal one). Middy joined me for a [...]

Gryphon Merino Handspun

I completed the final bobbin last week and then there were three!

I’m getting better at loading my bobbins more evenly. Ironically, bobbin #3 (center in left photo, front on the right photo) has the most yardage (bobbins 2 & 1 have a bit of residual practice singles from other fiber on them that I was [...]

Slowly, but Surely

Two bobbins down, one more to go! Hurray!!

It’s been a busy week, and a messy week. The reading of this post by Felix this morning made me feel so much better about my messes (those both literal & figurative), and then this one by Ms. Half Soled Boots cinched the deal because they both rang [...]

The Spinning Love Returns

I mark 2007 as the year that I became a Knitter. I think we all have our own definitions, for me, I became a knitter when I learned to knit. I became a Knitter when I began to care about and enjoy Knitting as much as a craft – the history, the cultural references & [...]

Local Blend Yarn

Woo-hoo! I finished a spinning project – the Local Blend Yarn! And you know what that means – finished one thing, start another right?
No, I’m just kidding! The Pinky Swear mitts will be finished next & the pattern sent along to our friend the intrepid dyer Gryphon! (I love love them! [...]