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By the time I’ve spun up two bobbins of this: The carpet under my wheel looks like this: I have to admit, I was kind of hating myself for buying two pounds of this wool after it arrived. The only thing that kept me from truly hating myself for it is that inexpensive and less [...]

My goal was to get at least 600 yards of very fine yarn from 4 ounces. I ended up with more than 1600 yards of 2-ply lace weight, which totally explains why it took me a freakin’ month to spin it up. I assumed I was just out of practice and spinning slower. Turns out [...]

I usually complain about plying. I like plied yarns, I like what plying does to yarn, and sometimes (once in a while) I don’t hate plying. It’s just that it took about 30 accumulative hours to spin up two bobbins with 2.1 ounces each of Shetland into very fine singles and I really want to [...]

My white BFL is supposed to be on it’s way. It was a good thing that I got paranoid after accidentally ordering from the iffy seller that I immediately found two different sellers and ordered more wool. The first new wool on the bobbin is 4 ounces of natural moorit Shetland. I’m spinning it fine, [...]

I was going to write about, and started writing about, how I feel after not paying attention to who I was buying from on eBay and discovering that the one fiber vendor that has not once but twice previously screwed up on my orders so bad that I will never ever purchase anything through his [...]

I’m as shocked as anyone else, even as I typed the title my mind is still reeling. The above capture is from my twitter feed on the 21st. I believe now that the people at UPS do indeed have souls (for now, if they lose my crap from Amazon I may once again rethink my [...]

The sales receipt showed up in the mail. It looks like my order was processed on the 14th but no sign of the USP truck that will bring me all my wooly goodness. If it indeed shipped out on the 14th then it should be here on Christmas Eve. I hope the UPS website is [...]

I put in a wool order with R H Lindsay on the 13th. I will have wool. Not fancy wool or expensive wool, but good clean carded sliver that I can actually spin. Depending on when they shipped it could arrive before or after the holiday. I’m so relieved. I was starting to believe that [...]

Covered this not being dead thing on Pointysticks. I’ll order some spinning fiber in the next couple of weeks, then I’ll dust off the wheel and get back to the sexy sexy yarn that is the raison d’être for this blog. I’ve had a lot of frustrations through the past year, and that translated to [...]

As I spin up the camel and gold wool I have a growing concern that there might not be enough of this batch to make the hat. Then I filled up the second bobbin, there might just be enough. I was planning on doing contrasting bands in the natural color. I did dye some uncarded [...]