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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 [...]

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 [...]

My new  bobbins and Ashford maintenance kit came in the mail. I can’t remember the last time I was so happy to do fixing up on anything.
Why did I wait this long?
I can’t believe the difference a new drive and brake bands make. Not to mention that it helps when the footman bit is actually [...]

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 [...]