Category: Spin

I’ve had many people ask me why I spend time spinning (let alone knitting) yarn. In today’s world where you can go pick up finished sweaters for under $20, and socks for around $2 it doesn’t make sense to them.
I’ve settled on this explanation.

Despite the fact that Mother Nature had a hissy fit last night and dropped a messy load of snow on us, spring is just three weeks away. I can’t even begin to tell you how glad I’ll be to kiss my
boots and put them to sleep for an …

As I mentioned in my last post, there are things going on in my life that require a great deal of thought and evaluation. Just as I started to see my way clear of one of the issues I’ve been gnawing on, another one reared its head

Whenever I have to do a lot of thinking, I put down the needles and sit down at the wheel. Well the last few weeks have been full of a lot of evaluation and thinking about different things. I
haven’t come to conclusions yet, but I’ve worked out a …

I’ve been incredibly busy at work, piling in huge amounts of overtime – something that will continue for the next few months at least. That means my knitting time has been almost non-existent.