hooping

I have a new obsession. It’s a 42″ collapsible hula hoop from Spirit Hoops and it’s taken hold of me in a way that I never would have imagined.  I woke up at 2:30 this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep because I was thinking of hooping.  I’ve practiced in the back yard for [...]

finishing things

One of the best things about spinning is that when your yarn is spun and the twist is set, it’s finished!  Yes, it will eventually become something else, but just creating a skein of yarn counts as finishing a project, at least in my book.  This is the yarn that was on the bobbin I [...]

actual knitting!

My Ariosa Cardi is finished!  SB and I sat out on the back deck last night and I hunkered down and got that sucker finished!  My t-shirt says “normal people scare me,” in case you’re wondering, and yes,  I do wear it in public.  My photographer left this morning before I could rope him into [...]

fiber guild picnic

This Saturday was our fiber guild’s annual picnic out at Pia and George’s farm.  This year we had double the number of attendees as last year! There were people we hadn’t seen since last year, but the conversations picked right back up. There were people working on projects, of course. bobbin lace butterfly Boutis in [...]

I apologize in advance

How sad that I’ve been reduced to this!  Here’s the deal.  Life has been busy.  There’s been furniture shopping (ordering, actually, nothing to show yet) and clothes shopping (TJ Maxx and Jones New York ROCK!) and book reading and deep thinking and self-evaluation going on and while I *have* been knitting, the time I used [...]