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Everything is fine, perfectly fine
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 put it [...]
