Linen progress
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 [...]
Flax spinning
When flax is spun, it turns into linen. Flax+twist=linen. Just like that. Flax is a bast fiber, which means it’s grown inside a plant and beaten out– the woody parts of the plant dried, retted (rotted) and removed, so that the long cellulose fibers remain. Ramie, nettle and hemp are also bast fibers. In the [...]
I give up, I can’t find it
I have looked everywhere I’ve actually thought to look and my yarn winder is gone. I am also missing my knitting bag that has my nostespinne sitting in the bottom of it. I am center-pull ball incapable at the moment. That man, you know the one; he’s about 6 foot, lean, nice strong features, and [...]
Gray was wrong all wrong
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 [...]
I need more time
Days really should be a bit longer shouldn’t they? (Pictured at left is the former Evil Clown roving, transformed into the kind hearted gypsy princess yarn.) It’s still winter and I live in a valley. I should know by now that the day light will always be a little shorter for us, I just wish [...]
Lavender and old lace-weight
I ran into an old friend while cleaning out my cosmetics drawer. A bit of Tish and Snooky’s manic panic hair color in a shade called “Ultra Violet” I remember buying it a few years back thinking that violet would be a good change from my usual mandarin orange. As it turned out, I was [...]
I was born late
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 [...]
Scary soap
I made a batch of soap just before Christmas and it’s fully cured now. I am very pleased with the final results (the lather is really nice and my skin smells so good.) I used coconut oil, virgin olive oil, dried senna, and some pink lime essential oil. This was one of those batches that [...]
Sometimes
…an image is just way too cool to be ignored, and sometimes I get tired of staring at my own designs. What I’m getting around to saying is that I’ve stolen (cough cough) borrowed a celtic dragon design I found online for inspiration. The original is a lovely tile, my copy is punchneedle embroidery. I’m [...]