I’ve made it to Friday again, huzzah! This was a hectic-seeming week and production just was not what I had ambitiously planned for at the outset. But I did manage to get all of these up on eBay: …which is to say, some 6 pounds of superwash top, some oddments of very nice fibers, a […]

Right, some of you said it wasn’t a cop-out to just post fiber and yarn pr0n. Well, that’s really all I have for today, so bear with me. It was a dye day. It might not look like it, but that’s about 6 pounds of superwash top, 2 pounds of merino/silk millspun yarn (maybe more), […]

…and I’m definitely taking the weekend entirely off. Of course, you realize that in my case, when I take a weekend off, odds are I’m still doing something fibery… ssssh, don’t tell my boss, she’s a real hard case and if she knew that, she would probably make me work even longer hours than the […]

I’m way too tired for pictures, so I’m going to put up a few photos of some recent yarn. What’s got me so tired? Well, I’ve been in production mode: a few carding days and today was a dye day, all to move stuff from “materials” to “inventory” to make room for new incoming materials, […]

In which we step through making a tweed blend, and see the resulting yarn

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 […]

Yeah. More of that kind of stuff! Let’s see a few closeups: Oh, I’m quite fond of this one, I am. So fond of it, I’ll have to do another one, for me! This one is superwash/alpaca/nylon (the sock kind, not the glitter kind) and I want mine to have tussah silk in it. Olive […]

Cruising through my usual reading list this morning with my coffee, I ran across this survey, linked from the SOAR blog. I took a moment to fill it out, and thought others might be interested as well. In household news, I’d like to take a moment to state that the LG dishwasher is simply no […]

Perhaps spring will really stick around this time. I did suspect it was soon, I really did; mid-March, and shorts weather? Too good to be true. So I mentioned that Pippi’s “Pagoda” was here and I couldn’t get to spinning it yet because I needed to finish up that Optim, right? Well, Thursday evening I […]

Juno commented yesterday, saying… Is fleece porn really ever gratuitous? She’s got a point. Using the “unnecessary and unwarranted” definition of the word, well… surely it’s always at least warranted. Therefore… let me share with you my current TALE OF WOE (and yes, this needs capitalization). A box arrived late yesterday afternoon from poor snowbound […]