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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 [...]

I’ve been spinning alpaca, some lovely rusty brown and some silvery gray that I ordered from Little Barn, the delivery time from Little Barn was speedy, arriving prior to Christmas, which gives me reason to think that my first experience with them was just a hiccup. For that, I’m really glad because their prices and [...]

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 [...]

I managed to give myself a friction burn right in the middle of my right hand ring finger when I was turning yesterday, which has got to qualify as one of the worst places to get a nice swollen blister. Luckily I’m left handed so it doesn’t impede all of my activities, but I am [...]

Technically I have a personal blog that has a shopping cart (with stuff for sale) so it is a shopblog, but I really detest some shopblogs because they are nothing but “Buy this, and ooh lookie, buy this too” and “I just made these, and wouldn’t you know everyone wants one?” So I try to [...]

When I walk away from my sewing table, I’m never quite sure what I’m going to find when I come back. Sometimes entire projects go missing. Sometimes there’s a shirt missing a button or two laying on top of my current project. And sometimes there’s a robot armed with my shears. A sewing robot. Genius. [...]

The only thing between me and the path to certain destruction right now are gallon sized ziplock freezer bags. My personal stash of large ziplock bags is running dangerously low. I am terrified. I managed to get through the next two steps of sewing, so my next step is filling the sachets with potpourri and [...]

I’ve spent much of the day sewing, which is especially fun when Josey is doing his schoolwork because I’m more inclined to be interested in what he’s doing as opposed to what I’m doing. I’m making a plethora of little tea bag shaped satchets for a craft fair I’m scheduled to go to. So far [...]

Sometimes I think fellow bloggers want to see how badly I want to comment and this is why they continue to use blogspot even after their blog has grown bloated with images and content. With my other blog (pointysticks) faced that problem, it was born on blogger and eventually outgrew it. Last night I ended [...]

I’m not a huge scrapbook person. Collage and altered books: Yes. Book binding: Yes. gluing die-cut cherubs and mounting photos on pre-printed backgrounds: No. Although it’s not something I could see myself doing voluntarily to pass time, it wasn’t as unpleasant as I expected (other than it was in the wee hours of the morning, [...]