…Sitting alone in a new staff orientation, mediocre tea and mini-pastries on the table beside a folder of handouts. Unexpectedly from behind, my name is spoken, warm and friendly. “I hoped I’d find you here! Can I sit beside you?” A woman — a new friend? — joins me at the [...]
Goshdarnit! How come I sit, spinning-wheel-less, when there are things like this collection here languishing without a spinner to spin them (and most likely destined to live out their lives as “conversation pieces”. *mumble grumble* Anyway, check out that ebay listing, there are some truly stunning spinning wheels all lumped together.
And, since I [...]
A few days back I finally got around to making up some more drop-spindles. For all that I’m still in mourning for having no wheel, I am trying to move on! I really do enjoy spinning with spindle, as well as wheel (although there is a rhythm that one can fall into more [...]
The new Autumn issue of Knitty is here!
Knitspot Anne’s beautiful Totally Autumn throw has me already thinking of yarns and slight mods (what would it look like as a wrap?), and Q is a very intriguing sock (at the very least I’ll be trying that heel elsewhere!).
For the spinners, there’s a good visual [...]
So I broke down, and did in fact rip back the Black Purl sock back to the toe. Then I re-knit it with the proper zig-zagging twists — and I re-knit the heel — and I re-knit the eye-of-partridge heel flap — and then I ripped that out, having forgotten, once again, that stupid [...]
What did I find on my doorstep today, but a package from my SP11 pal!
I love getting Good Mail, and I always have fun opening these packages. Wouldn’t you?
Look what I was lucky to receive tonight! Craft Magazine, a ‘zine that looks right up my alley with it’s jack-of-all-trades melange of arts, crafts, and [...]
I love (lovelovelove) the Lorna’s Laces yarn I received from my Secret Pal (SP10). It is in the very colourway I had drooled over in Lettuce Knit, “Black Purl”, a delightful mix of charcoal, grey, lavender and amethyst, with a tiny hint of a greeny-grey.
I was so delighted to get it, I spend [...]
“They say necessity is the mother of Invention.
Don’t know who the father is though… probably Remorse.”
~ Red Green
Well, I’m not sure about Remorse (since I’m actually fairly pleased with this) but I really couldn’t say what fathered this ugly brainchild of mine. I blame the combination of zero socks-in-progress, too much sock-yarn in skeins, [...]
