Category: Spin

Well, sort of.

I finished this luscious piece of fluff last week.

From my hands down favourite etsy seller Corgi Hill Farm
5 oz BFL …

I just came through a horrifically busy period at work (I had 47 hours of overtime in 2 weeks if that gives you an idea…) so for the last month, I haven’t had much time for anything else but coming home and collapsing into bed.
Thankfully that project is over, so life is returning to normal. Sort of.

I have two very large projects on my plate at work that are sucking up almost every waking moment. 12 hr days do not leave a lot of time for knitting/spinning/blogging.

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

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.

I am a very lucky person. I have a wonderful family, fabulous friends, a husband who puts up with the slight obsession I have with yarn/spinning/knitting, a cat who hasn’t eaten anything requiring
huge vet bills (lately), a great job and funny and talented co-workers. …

I’ll admit it – the stranger the substance, the more likely I am to spin it. I have both some milk fibre and some banana fibre in my stash, and they are waiting not so patiently to go onto the wheel,
but a recent trip to visit John and …