Category: Spin
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Look – a FO!
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 …
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This Week’s WIP
I have been consumed by making snowflakes for the tree. I finished a whole bunch of them but want to take pictures on said tree. However said tree has not been purchased yet. Fingers crossed for …
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Tour de Fleece
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…
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Hurry up and Wait
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.
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What kind of salad do you make?
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.
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I can almost taste it
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 …
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Slowing Down
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
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Quick update
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.
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Thanksgiving
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. …
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Spinning Seaweed
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 …