Tag: spinning
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New Year, Old Projects
Welcome to the new Gregorian year, dear readers. During these last wisps of cold, cloudy weather in Phoenix I have been listening to my winter music: Of Monsters and Men Beneath the Skin and Handsome Furs Sound Kapital. I have a few gift knits on the needles, but mostly I’m working on my stack of […]
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Mousie Does Yarn School
Greetings, readers! It has been two weeks now since Mousie and I returned from yarn school with ALL THE FIBER, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to unpack the whole experience. The premise of Yarn School is simple: twice a year, a couple dozen fibery people descend on a former school in the […]
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This Might Backfire
Welcome back, everyone! January was a perfect example of how lots of making often translates into very little blogging. One of these projects is top secret, but thankfully another is ready to show off. Inspired by the very talented makers at my local craft guild, I have cracked my spinning wheel back out and made […]
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The Yarn Fumes Got Me
Thank you all for your patience, everyone! Camera, light, and yarn finally came together, and here we have it: my spoils from the Knitting in the Heartland vendor hall. I tried to be really, really practical and look at everything twice before pulling out my credit card. I did look at everything twice, but…I may […]
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Different City, Same Mouse
Last weekend, I attended the Knitting in the Heartland conference as a birthday gift for Querido, for whom I may need to knit another sweater after all the fiber I’ve bought. It was a fabulous birthday present, and a wonderful experience. The members of the Sunflower Knitting Guild were numerous and friendly, the vendor hall […]
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Will Too
I am ridiculously competitive sometimes. Last week, when I was listing the few contents of a room for Querido, he jokingly bet that the spinning wheel in the closet would stay there until we moved again. It wasn’t meant to be a challenge, but clearly I didn’t have enough to do, because I took it […]
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