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It’s not that horrible, at least that’s what I tell myself. I tell myself a lot of things when I’m sewing, things like “I’m never doing another craft show again.” (Lie.) Things like “This is so not worth the effort.” (Lie.) and “Next year I’m just going to buy gifts for everyone and not worry [...]

The two skeins on the left are from the same colorway as the one on the right.
Superstition from FiberOptic.
I just finished the two on the left (the one on the right is from before.) The new skeins are sock weight, and Navajo plied to keep the colors in solid blocks.
I am also working on buttoning [...]

I ordered some custom stitch markers from Opal and she surprised me with a whole box of goodies along with the markers.
But first– the markers. Lets just linger here for a moment to let the glory that is handmade goodness sink in.
Just breath. Relax. Try not to covet. It feels like warm sweet sunlight showering [...]

I woke up, had a cup of caffeine free herbal tea, sat at my spinning wheel and listened to Eric Clapton unplugged as I plied yarn.
What have I done with the real me? Obviously, I am not me. I just can’t be.
Look at my poor dog. Georgia knows that I’ve been taken over by some [...]

Things couldn’t be better.
The Black Coffee roving from FiberOptic is almost sock yarn now.
Please excuse the greenish hue, my camera does that under fluorescent lights. The greenish hue doesn’t exist in real life and I’m sure it could be corrected in Photoshop except that my attempts at correcting it turned out far worse than the [...]

Water, electric, phone, internet access– bah! Who needs em?
All I need is tasty handpainted roving.
My family disagrees, for some reason they think its more convenient to have food and running water. I’ll never understand them.
This a sport weight that I made from spinning Moonlightbaker’s Blue Steel roving.
40/60 bamboo/merino blend. I was sorely tempted to not [...]

I just don’t like waiting for it to dry when the torment is done.
I’ve shocked it in hot water and cold, thwacked, soaked, and snapped the snot out of this yarn so that it’ll be as tough as the hubs of hell.
All the torture has felted and blossomed it just a little, forcing the merino [...]

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 light-blue for knitting [...]

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 goof proof [...]