Wednesday, early release day, kid comes home early, short work day. Must grind out batts hard-core. # @amyfibre: Morgaine at Carolina Homespun will have batts at SOAR. She also has them at Rhinebeck. 😉 # @yarnharlot I was just thinking about you as it was about 3C when I got up. Our heat isn't on […]

FedEx just brought me my copy of my first instructional DVD! Drafting: The Long And Short Of It, from Interweave Press and sponsored by Louet North America, is an advanced beginner to intermediate level workshop in DVD form. One hour long, we get into the meaty topic of how to fine-tune your yarn to get […]

@velmalikevelvet the real shipment is scheduled to arrive at Interweave 11/9, so I won't have them for SOAR, will ship 2nd week in Nov # Congrats to Heather Sparks for winning a spindle kit plus batt for being the 200th preorder! Next prize at 225. #

@fiberqat: there's a run of the pygora blend ones planned for Morgaine to have at SOAR also. 😉 And she may have some left from Rhinebeck # I find crap like this perturbing: http://wcbstv.com/topstories/h…35962.html # Just looked at the little mini-pond in front of the porch. We got 2.5-3 inches of rain overnight. # @sameknit […]

0640: Past time to get up, really. I let myself linger in bed far longer than I meant to, but man, did it feel good. I told the already-up-and-cerealed manchild that yes, he could have some computer time before going to wait for the bus, and deployed the travel-sized coffee grinder because the big burr […]

A few minutes shy of 0600: Up, and down the hall to my office. It’s late September, so it’s still fairly dark. Not as dark as it will be when Daylight Savings Time ends, though. I have no empathy for people who enjoy mucking with the time of day twice annually. Pick a time and […]

In retrospect, as recovery starts to happen, I think maybe the t-shirts should have read I SURVIVED SOCK SUMMIT 2009 or maybe SOCK SUMMIT ATE MY BRAIN or something along those lines. Pulling photos off the camera, it looks like I…. hardly took any. Which, when I think back, isn’t that surprising. I managed to […]

I walked away from an argument today — no, really, I did — and not for the first time. Okay, so it’s an argument I’ve had plenty of times before and it’s a losing battle, and that’s why I walk away from it more often than I don’t. I love a good debate. I love […]

The truth of the matter is that Denny was suffering. There’s this whole strike situation in her home city of Toronto, which means all the parks are closed and nobody’s coming to pick up trash or compost. They’re also putting new water mains in her street, so the water’s turned off all the time. There […]

I have officially lost all track of time. In the past 5 minutes, or else perhaps it’s 5 years, the manchild finished school for the year, started summer day camp at the local YMCA, I got my copy of Amy King’s new book Spin Control, I went to Colorado to work on an exciting new […]