Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Spinning, Ten on Tuesday, garden, politics on Aug 31st, 2010
Ten ways to Lighten My Mood. Are you insinuating I’m cranky???!!!!?
Plant sunflowers in your garden.
Go out to lunch with a friend.
Change the routine. We all need a little variety. So that would be peanut butter on the English muffin instead of jam.
Spend time puttering in the garden. As long as there are no aphids. Bastids.
Read [...]
Posted in Spinning on Aug 22nd, 2010
Proof that not all of the bugs are in the garden these days.
She followed me home, can I keep her?
I finally took the plunge and bought a spinning wheel. It wasn’t the one I thought I was going to buy, and it wasn’t the one that I really wanted but the Ladybug will [...]
Posted in Spinning on Jul 18th, 2010
In Tour de Fleece news, I’m still madly spinning, just not posting my progress. This is the 2-ounce bump of cormo from Strawberry Moon Fibers that I bought at Shepherd’s Harvest in Lake Elmo, MN in early May.
The spinning is rustic at best, veering from fingering to worsted weight and the plying is beginner’s stuff. [...]
The sweet potatoes won’t be as pretty as this blossom, but I’m hoping there will be plenty of them.
Short and sweet today, I’m a little under the weather and need to go take a nap.
I’ve managed to spin everyday and it’s been delightful. Partly because the fiber is bright and cheerful and partly because a [...]
Posted in Spinning on Jul 4th, 2010
Happy Independence Day all you Americans.
If it’s July, then it’s time for the Tour de Fleece!
Time to get out those spinning wheels and spindles, raid the fiber stash and spin every day the Tour de France boys ride their bikes (and did you see all those crashes this morning? Oy!)
If you’re in to group activities [...]
Shepherd’s Harvest Festival was cold, soggy and fun. It’s a mid-sized festival, big enough to have a good selection of vendors in four barns, small enough that you can comfortably do it in one day and cover pretty much everything you want to see. The crowds were good but not massive, perhaps because [...]
Hey! Go see JessaLu Knits and help her sweetie raise money to benefit their local community. It won’t cost you a penny. All you have to do is follow the link on her site to a local bank that is making grants to the non-profit organizations that win the most votes. One vote per person. [...]
Posted in Spinning on Jan 27th, 2010
Vera isn’t the only colorful thing catching my eye these days. While cleaning out the knitting baskets last week, I found a skein of handspun that I made last fall and never showed you. This is 4 ounces of Bonkers Fibers, 50/50 merino and tencel, spun into a fingering weight 2-ply. There’s roughly 325 yards [...]
It’s KmKat’s birthday today, one of those big ones. Go help her celebrate by making her laugh and you might win a little something she’s giving away.
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For the last week, I’ve had the fun of spinning with a wheel borrowed from a friend. It’s a Majacraft Gem, small and portable so I can pick [...]
Posted in Spinning on Aug 6th, 2009
Here’s my reward for a month of spinning.
I won a Team Crankypants! prize for participating in the 2009 Tour de Fleece (you spin every day that the Tour de France riders race). This is hand dyed Finn wool roving from Moonlightbaker Jen. This “Scarlet” colorway looks made for me. I’ve been carrying it around and [...]
