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I’ve given up on FlyLady. Not without much debate, both internal and external, and not without more than a little guilt. Over the years Flylady helped me get a grip on my messes and taught me some good habits, the email reminders were useful (when I paid attention to them) and the testimonials were rather [...]

So much waiting. I ordered more Harmony needles from knitpicks, this time I went for some dpns. I’m in love. I also have a set of cheap 10″ bamboo single points coming from China, I ordered those about 2 weeks ago off of eBay– still waiting. I ordered 2 cones of Peaches n’ Cream in [...]

Not for me, for my dogs silly. I bought some vitamin and mineral supplement for Greta and Georgia, and because it’s liquid the dosage is doled out in teaspoons. 1 teaspoon per 10 pounds of body weight. Because in my former life I was a bartender I know that one ounce is one shot, and [...]

Yummy yummy yarn guts. Doesn’t this look like fluffy shiny deer guts? The effect is far more realistic in real life than I was able to capture with the camera. I thank goodness that the smell is not that of authentic intestines. One of the things I like about dying silk is that it’s fairly [...]

I decided to take a break from flax spinning and switch to something a little gentler. Bombyx silk fit the bill. I dyed this batch quite a while ago, the technique was really simple. I waited for a warm day, soaked the silk in water and soda ash, added a little ammonia, emptied dye into [...]

My new  bobbins and Ashford maintenance kit came in the mail. I can’t remember the last time I was so happy to do fixing up on anything. Why did I wait this long? I can’t believe the difference a new drive and brake bands make. Not to mention that it helps when the footman bit [...]

First, a picture of my spinning progress. Same bobbin as before, but a bit more yarn on it. I generally have the attention span of a hamster, so this progress represents more time than I care to admit investing into it. Life in Craftopia is getting expensive again: Before the weekend I ordered an Ashford [...]

When flax is spun, it turns into linen. Flax+twist=linen. Just like that. Flax is a bast fiber, which means it’s grown inside a plant and beaten out– the woody parts of the plant dried, retted (rotted) and removed, so that the long cellulose fibers remain. Ramie, nettle and hemp are also bast fibers. In the [...]

I have looked everywhere I’ve actually thought to look and my yarn winder is gone. I am also missing my knitting bag that has my nostespinne sitting in the bottom of it. I am center-pull ball incapable at the moment. That man, you know the one; he’s about 6 foot, lean, nice strong features, and [...]