I was memed by Jennifer of The Spirit Trail. So, today, I have that, plus some yarn. I’ll put most of the yarn at the end, forcing you to read through the meme to get to it. Such a dastardly ploy! I’d apologize, but… I’ve been totally insanely busy with production, the manchild down to […]

Dear Chris, Once upon a time, I was absolutely positive that you were out to ruin my life. You wanted to make sure that I had no fun, and you wanted that because you hated me. Further, you had no respect for me or my capabilities as a human being, and you thought I was […]

The weekend’s email woes have wrapped up. Feel free to breathe a sigh of relief with me; at stake was rather a large amount of data making up almost 11 years of my life, and it is thankfully all resolved happily now. It all started out with “The power supply needs swapping out,” but then […]

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It’s time for another cop-out entry. These happen when I have essentially nothing intelligent to say, and run around with the digital camera taking pictures. The weather is crap. Seriously, it just can’t decide what to do. Right now, it’s somewhere around 70F, muggy, cloudy and gray, and looks like rain, but it’s not raining […]

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 […]