Dear Secret Pal,
I received my package last night! I got home after another blah workday, happy for the weekend but a bit out of sorts, and saw that there was a delivery slip in the lobby. Of course, I had no sooner let Dru into the house (a friend is staying the weekend [...]
I had a really bad day yesterday. Not because of any thing that was said or done to me , but head-things-wise. I wish I could articulate myself better: perhaps if I could write out what I was working through, I could figure out what needed to be done. There’s a lot [...]
Furthering my chances of getting good mail, I’ve signed up for Domesticat’s Knitterly Letter Swap. You write two letters, you get two letters, and the possiblities of corresponding with you could actually be friends with have got to be better than those penpal projects we all had to do in grade 5. Bonus [...]
Last night I Andean-plyed the spindle-full of singles from my drop-spindle. It had gotten to the point that the spindle was feeling “sluggish” and if I tried to spin as fine as I had been it would just break: I think this was from the weight of singles on the spindle. There really [...]
I don’t entirely understand it, but I am more thrilled than perhaps is healthy at the thought of receiving mail that is good and sent just for me (as opposed to, say, boring Alumni quarterlies, or bills). I want letters, and postcards, gifts and treats to magically appear at my doorstep by way [...]
I have become quite addicted to the “stats” page here on WordPress. Can’t get enough of it. Am thrilled when views in a day surpass 10, and wonder what I’m doing wrong when they’re less than 5. Am amused by which links people follow. And am intrigued by the searches people [...]
Finished Object: Voodoo Wrist Warmers
Pattern: from Knitty
Yarn: Rowan “Tapestry” (70% wool, 30% soybean protien fibre), greys & tans colourway
Needles: 3.75mm Clover bamboo dpns
Sometimes I need to step back, away from my frustrations, my self-evaluations, and my preconcieved ideas about what I “should” be doing. Ideas like, since I can knit complicated patterns, then I [...]
This evening will mark a week since the spinning obsession began. I’m still intrigued, fascinated, perplexed by the whole notion of spinning, and expect to continue to be so for a long time (or until something else comes up).
Some things I have learned in my first week:
- It is not called a drop [...]
This is not the post I wanted to make. I had expected that here I would be writing smugly about how I’ve finished all the pices of Gatsby Girl. Yet pride goeth before, right?
Instead of that post, however, I just get to write that for some horrible and inexplicable reason, despite following the [...]
Or, How To Make A Drop Spindle For Under $10 Using Sheer Bloody-Mindedness
I have indeed become obsessed with the idea of spinning my own yarn. So much so, of course, that I had to do it RightNow, and went on that little fibre-binge the other day, bringing home four braided “slivers” of lovely, [...]
