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I was actually thinking of a weaving project for this month, but when I was browsing the Knitty.com archives looking for inspiration, I ran into the Branching Out scarf pattern in the Spring ’05 issue and fell in love. I have a thing for leaves and vines, and since it’s a springy pattern I decided [...]

A few nights ago I was spinning a pot luck fiber mix (basically handfuls of stuff left over from other batts) that had silk, ingeo, blue and green merino, lime green something, and a mix of white merino and other wools when this little guy came for a visit. At first I thought it was [...]

What kinds of spinning urges do you get? Out of no where I started getting a hankering to use long draw method with baby camel down. No– not top, not roving: actual baby camel down. For those of you that haven’t spun camel you won’t be that impressed until you try, the fibers are slippy [...]

I’ve been playing around with Windows Movie Maker (comes with Windows XP who wudda thunk?) and using Youtube.com. I’m by no means an expert director (or have any presence on camera) but it’s fun. I think I’ll definitely end up investing in a better webcam and microphone after I get the bills caught up (by [...]

If you’ve visited my other blog you’ve seen this. Which means you understand that I’m reduced to knitting bulky acrylic yarn on large bamboo needles which have proven to be virtually indestructible and sewing. I just don’t tend to spin bulky yarn, I could break into the mohair I suppose and knit a lacy scarf [...]

… but I’m also working on other things. After a thread about cloth diapers on Spindlers list and a self induced marathon of Project Runway bonus footage, I decided that Lexi needed something a little more in the way of cloth training pants and dug out my sewing machine. Haute toddler. As Tim Gunn would [...]

After reading Pantone’s 2006 Fall color forecast when it came out I was as depressed as the pastels that they are pimping from Europe. Don’t get me wrong– I like muted watercolor tones but I’m a pale, freckled brunette and they wreck me. I absolutely love sage and taupe, but look like a somewhat well [...]

I always have this internal debate start up when I spin silk. There’s a part of me that just wants to keep it, hoard it, pet it, and drool over it as eternal yarn. The other part of me begs to see it worked up into something delightful, because for all the world spinning silk [...]