This is the manchild, waiting for the school bus. He only has about a month of school left. Okay, 5 weeks. I sent him off this morning with a slip filled out saying I’d totally be willing to share a little bit about my job for his class’ career day type thing. Those of you […]

The Good: I got some wonderful, beautiful, stunning, fabulous fiber from Amy. She and I have been known to swap fibers on occasion; this is mostly because every so often, you want to eat someone else’s cooking, even if you’re a nitpicky shrew who likes things just so (that would be me, not Amy). We […]

First things first: a quick question roundup, mostly about Julia! A few folks have asked, as Ted did: Um…will you be doing a side-by-side comparison of Julia and Victoria? Well, now I will, for sure! That’s a great idea. Why didn’t I think of that? Stand by, I’ll do that this coming week, in with […]

Some boxes got here just after dinner last night. Hrmmmm… says Louet all over those boxes. Let’s look closer. In case you can’t tell, that says S-11 Julia. What I have here is a prototype/demo of Louet’s latest spinning wheel, the first round of which are due to arrive at US and Canadian dealers who’ve […]

A few people have asked me recently if I have any advice to offer about going to Interweave’s Spin-Off Autumn Retreat. Yes. Here it is. SOAR is intense! Don’t try to plan for other things during the course of SOAR. Just go and do SOAR. How does it work exactly? Okay, here’s the deal. SOAR […]

In years past, I used to live on the highway. That was, in fact, almost 20 years ago, and in an era when I never would have thought that, should the World-Wide-Web occur, it would be attempting to sell me Mississippi Fred McDowell ring tones for my cell phone at the place where I’d link […]