Yes, I’m alive

I usually hate reading blogs where there is a long lapse between posts, but I’m doing it myself.  In my defense, I do have another blog to attend to.  This one is fiber-only content.  My other blog has everything else…vegetarianism, primitivism, feminism.  I figured a one-stop blog would offend too many people, so I split [...]

Read Full Post »

Knitting pet peeve #1: Quit @#$%@ stretching out my gloves!

What is it with people?  You show them some gloves or mittens that you handknit because you’re proud and want to show them off, and the very next thing they do (WITHOUT ASKING, I might add) is to snatch them from you and try them on!
I have small hands.  Very small hands.  I wear size [...]

Read Full Post »

Baa Baa Black Sheep…Gathering, that is.

Where your intrepid blogger hits the mean streets of Eugene and meets some famous people at the Black Sheep Gathering, buys more fiber, and meets some woolly creatures, in no particular order.
It’s nice to live in the area. No fuss, no muss. I took the bus to the downtown station. I could’ve [...]

Read Full Post »

Call me lazy

I love that my Lendrum has a sliding yarn guide, instead of hooks.  I hate moving yarn from hook to hook to fill the bobbin evenly.

However, while the sliding yarn guide is easier to use, I still have to stop spinning to move it.  Sometimes I’m in a groove and don’t want to stop.  The [...]

Read Full Post »

It’s been a while

Ooh, I didn’t realize how long it had been since I last posted something.  I’ve recently started playing the ukulele, and that is taking up a lot of my free time.  I’m still knitting and spinning, just less frequently.
I do want to take some pics of some spindles I got a while back, and I [...]

Read Full Post »

I’ve decided on a name

OK.  It was a long and arduous process.  I know my Lendrum is a “he.”  He told me so.  And when you look at him, he has a regal and stately air about him.  He’s a product of Canada, so he’s part of The Crown, so he needed a British name…something befitting his nature.  My [...]

Read Full Post »

Woolly pics

I am at my folk’s house using my old computer. I decided to look around my hard drive to see what I used to have on this ‘puter, and I came across some microscopic pictures of yarn. I briefly dated a guy who used a scanning electronic microscope at work. He took some of my [...]

Read Full Post »

Shop ’til you drop (out of frustration).

So, payday was Friday. That means shop for more fiber. I had several sites bookmarked from my research. I ended up buying only from three places: Happy Fuzzy Yarn, Lisa Souza, and Spunky Eclectic. I’ve ordered from Happy Fuzzy Yarn several times. The other two were first-time orders. [...]

Read Full Post »

A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting — a review

Knitting book reviews are notoriously unbalanced and unbiased, especially when you read them in a knitting magazine. No one wants to offend one of their own. Knitters are like policemen and doctors…they stick together. Besides, magazines only review the new books that are just released.
Why am I reviewing an older book? [...]

Read Full Post »