I’ve been thinking lately about opinions. Okay, okay; I’m always thinking about opinions, and I have plenty of them, just like anybody else does. But lately I’ve been thinking about how things go when people have different opinions. It seems like a no-brainer that not everyone would always have the same opinions, and a further […]

I’ve been thinking about the net and the fiber community lately, for no real reason other than that, well, I guess I’m often thinking about that sort of thing. As long as I’ve been online (which goes back to the era when .com was the least populous domain and email addresses were often bang paths […]

Saturday morning dawned, and with the boy at his grandparents’ house we were waking up slowly. Chad made some smart-aleck remark, and I retorted, paraphrasing the episode of “Deadwood” we’d watched the previous night: “I no more need your witticisms than I do a balloonist!” I looked out the bedroom window and there, drifting just […]

In the spirit of “You Know You’ve Been Hacking Too Long When,” or YKYBHTLW…

There have been lots and lots of terrific questions over the past couple of weeks, and it’s time for a Q&A roundup. Let’s start with questions from A Little Bit About Plying, Part 1. There are some absolutely wonderful comments on this post, and I’d recommend folks stroll through ’em if they have a chance […]

Honestly, I shouldn’t be sitting here at the computer drinking coffee and blogging — I should be doing chores. But of course, I’m fortifying myself for chores by drinking more coffee, so I’ll forgive myself. Yesterday was, I must say, a very pleasant Saturday. I drove up to the Miami County Fairgrounds, about an hour […]

Well, April has certainly been a busy month so far! I feel like I’m hardly sitting still long enough to get to about 75% of the things I thought I would… in March! However, I do have a few things to show for my month so far. One of them is this: Her name is […]

Do You Prefer To Spin Woolen or Worsted? Totally depends. Some things I simply must have be worsted, and others I want woolen. For the most part though, it’s sort of a spectrum depending on what I think the yarn will be for, and which technique I use with what prep is decided by what […]

Fiber Femmes’ Fiber Geek Questionnaire from Jan/Feb 2007

Renee asks: You mentioned that you usually keep track of the length of fiber spun. I was wondering how you calculate that? I usually keep a notebook handy and log my spinning in various ways, and I measure and write down several things about the yarn, then tag the yarn with what I guess you […]