Spin

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 …

Well the first weekend of the race was quite productive. I have no idea who’s in the lead because, well, to be honest I couldn’t care less about the actual race. I finished plying 2 bobbins of the silk merino and spun up two more that are now resting. I’ll ply those tomorrow or Tuesday. […]

I’m participating in a challenge (you know how I love those!) this month. It’s called the Tour de Fleece. It goes along with the Tour de France and we spin every day that they ride, from July 3rd to
July 25th. We get July 12th and July 21st off, …