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Utilities are for wimps
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 love torturing yarn
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 [...]
No Fly-zone
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 [...]
