Today’s video is a simple, quick one about my default method of washing yarn. There’s always more than one way to do it, but here’s a good basic way that will work for pretty much any yarn out there.

It’s coming around again, as it has probably for time immemorial — the thing where someone who doesn’t knit discovers that there are people who do knit, and some of them are apparently under the age of 90, and then the next thing we know, someone is writing articles or spouting this line on TV […]

Years ago, I did a static-image blog post about how to use a half-hitch on a low whorl spindle. Thing is, I did it really quick, after finishing up a dye day, and I was never happy with it for a million reasons, not least among them that my fingertips were stained from dye. What’s […]

Abby’s Spinning Gift Guide 2014 Do you have a spinner in your life for whom you’d like to buy a gift, but you aren’t sure what he or she would like? I’ve pulled together a list of some favourite items in various price ranges to help, followed by a few tips on shopping for spinners […]

The fall teaching schedule is always jam-packed and exciting, and when I get home — usually just before Thanksgiving — I tend to have a huge email backlog from being on the road, and a staggering to-do list that I always expect to complete in the relative lull (well, at least it’s a travel lull) […]

Yesterday morning five months ago, my mother got off a plane in Cusco, Peru. I can’t begin to guess how many times in her life my mother had done just that, or how many times — just like this one — she was met at the airport by Nilda and her husband Paulino. I was […]

…like, how this has been going on: and this… and there’s so much to blog about, but right now? Right now, there’s an emergency going on, and I have to dash to go help my mother, who’s just been hospitalized. Everyone should be okay… but I’m on my way out, and this means everything is […]

So this one time when I was a teenager, our family went whitewater rafting on the Vilcanota River. And actually, there’s a few really good stories about that trip, but I’m going to save them for later, because the thing I was really just thinking about was a principle that our river guide told us […]

…we’re doing a little light remodeling and fall cleaning around here, and there are changes coming to the look and feel of this blog. But in the meantime, while we’re cleaning, we’re taking things back to the most basic of basics. So don’t panic about the appearance! It’s all just part of rolling out a […]

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 […]