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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 the bath [...]

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 maintenance kit [...]

I’m usually not so cranky with my color choices. Hindsight being what it is, I think I should have chosen something a little more uplifting than heathered gray merino to put on the wheel.
During our morning errands I grabbed a set of paint brush pen things and a sketch pad for Lexi.
I’m undecided on whether [...]

I brought the Traveler out and cozied myself up next to the fire to spin some BFL and Josey asked if he could use the Traddy.
Does a bear live in the woods?
He armed himself with some wool, I set the drive band and tension for him, put a drop of oil on the flyer to [...]