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I don’t actually have a problem plying, except when I’m actually plying. I love the magical way it makes uneven bits disappear, I love balanced yarn, I even love the tweedy effect with blends like this one. I just do not love doing it. For some reason the task is much more tolerable when I [...]

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 [...]