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Now I lay me down to nap, a finished sock upon my lap. If I die before I wake; that second sock I won’t have to make.

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 [...]

and never quite caught up. I haven’t put forth any serious spinning effort in a while, every once in a while I grab my spindle and work on the reddish brown baby alpaca but the wheel has languished in the closet since August. Opal knows what it takes to get a girl spinning again and [...]

This cotton fiber disturbs my calm. I spin yarn to produce calm, to maintain calm. Do I need to spin a yarn that disrupts that sweet serenity? I suppose I do.  I suppose deep down inside of me, deep deep down, in the darkest recesses of my soul there’s a part of me that must [...]

Oh wonders will never cease. I actually have a project full of soft and lovely yarnage to report on. I started this shawl the evening before the house broke. It’s out of lace weight handspun gray alpaca and the pattern has been spawned from my tiny aching brains. I spent way too much time staring [...]

Tied into things that I quantify there is worth, price, cost, usefulness. Pretty much in that order as it relates to handcrafts and art. I noticed while listening to Lime and Violet that while they raved over yarns that the word “cheap” came up again and again. This is in no way a criticism against [...]

Yes the cashmere is done and washed and dry now. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It turned out to be a good laceweight although I haven’t measured the wpi yet, I’m guessing it to be in the neighborhood of 35-40. It’s more even than I imagined it to be prior to washing [...]

Someone mentioned on the Spindlers list that Continental knitters tend to have purl rows that cluster together in twos on the wrong side of flat knit stockinette fabrics. Since I’m doing some flat knitting (the Icarus shawl) and I’m a continental knitter I had to inspect the wrong side to see if have the row [...]

I’m knitting the Icarus shawl from the Summer 2006 issue of Interweave Knits using the Shetland that I spun up recently. So far the progress is pretty good, I’ve made a few mistakes that have slowed things down, but nothing that has me ripping back (knock on wood) or completely stymied. I am so glad [...]

It’s raining cats and dogs right now. There’s a leak directly over the kitchen sink (hey at least most of the water is going into the sink, I’m not going to complain about that), the shop floor is a soppy mess because I had to put down some old newspapers and catalogs to keep water [...]