a scary and exciting (ad)venture

Yesterday I did what all good knitters do when they’re in a slump – I went shopping!  My logic went something like this:  I need a new project to jumpstart the mojo.  I have nine skeins of Rowan Summer Tweed in my stash, but no pattern.  Call LYS#1 that’s closest to work – they don’t [...]

knitting malaise

Nothing I pick up to knit is appealing to me.  I cast on for socks yesterday, knit 15 rows, decided I didn’t like it and ripped it out.  I think it’s too early for the summertime knitting doldrums, but the smoke from the forest fires makes it seem much later in the season than it really is.  Maybe [...]

A good, long weekend

I wish every weekend lasted three days, don’t you?  I’m pretty proud of myself.  I didn’t kill my mother’s husband and only lost it once – when he was berating me for being a vegetarian. (“I tell you what.  100,000 years ago, people were DAMN HAPPY to eat meat!”)  I could give 100 examples of the [...]

Eye Candy Fern

Oh!  Look at the happy little fern! Awww, and he has a tiny grasshopper friend! Aren’t they sweet? AAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!  Let’s hope the world is never taken over by giantized grasshoppers.  Pretty scary stuff! Thanks to everyone for your support in the fleece incident of ’07.  I’m pretty much over it now and really just needed [...]

even more self-indulgence

Guess what I just bought? Three batts of Abby‘s merino/tencel luxury batts.  I’ve wanted to spin merino/tencel for a long, long time, and I’m a little down today so I decided to make myself feel better. I’m down because yesterday I went to my guild’s monthly spin study and I was all excited because I [...]

Yarn takes less room than fiber, right?

After my recent assessment, I decided it was time to finish my oldest (like – started back in November) spinning project – Border Leicester/Romney mix I got from Pia, the shepherdess in my guild.  This is a three ply of three different colors of the same breed of sheep.  There’s one strand that’s dark chocolate brown, one [...]

True Confessions

Did any of you ever read those magazines?  I hate to admit it, but I did.  There were extenuating circumstances!  In junior high, my friends J and S and I would spent the night at J’s grandmother’s house out in the country (Tobinsport, Indiana).  J’s grandmother lived in a trailer next to the house (I still haven’t [...]

Seven things

Stacey tagged me, so here are my seven things. 1.  Several years ago, I took belly dancing classes.  I said it was to augment my dating resume, but it was great exercise and I learned some killer dance moves.  I’m too shy to ever dance in front of anyone, though. 2.  Yarn and fiber are just [...]

I’ll take three, please.

Meet Cricket, the May Fiber of the Month Club selection from Adrian at Hello Yarn!  My version of Cricket has a good bit more green than any others you may see because I threw in a bobbin of some Wensleydale that I’d dyed varying shades of green some time ago (at the time I thought it [...]

I forgot my knitting

What kind of a knitter forgets her knitting?  This kind, apparently.  Ugh.  I did take pictures of last week’s spinning, though. These are the singles I couldn’t decide what to ply with, or whether to ply at all.  At the suggestion of several, I decided to leave them as singles.  I haven’t set the twist [...]

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