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The two skeins on the left are from the same colorway as the one on the right. Superstition from FiberOptic. I just finished the two on the left (the one on the right is from before.) The new skeins are sock weight, and Navajo plied to keep the colors in solid blocks. I am also [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]