Wherein I am defeated by pale purple corn

Yes, it’s true.  In accordance with the challenge, I fearlessly sat at the wheel and began to spin the ingeo. Perhaps a little fearful would have been good…  My test cable lied like a swatch!  It didn’t draft easily (I went to making strips of the lenght rather than trying to draft) and I had [...]

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For my next trick, I will make fire.

Since I’ve actually made yarn… and made it into something… that fits and has a pattern and everything!! Today the internet (and phone) were down all day (thank you Rogers), so I couldn’t get any work done – or very little, as I needed access to the university library.  So I knit the Spirogyra out [...]

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Not Exactly Straw to Gold

But not horrible either. I have knit … bugger all, over the last week (well not entirely true, I got a few rows of my sock and a couple rows of the next clue of the Mystic Lights shawl done, but you know what I mean). Instead I have been getting to know my spinning [...]

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If I’m Going to be a Spinster I might as well have the Toys!

What is green, makes a slight wumping noise and required a screw driver and a candle to assemble?  My wheel, of course.  Yes, it is official assembled!  I decided not to varnish it inasmuch as I’m not yet sure whether or how I might want to accent it (and I have enough frakkin stain to [...]

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Raiders of the Lost Stash (or I cleaned my closet)

This past Saturday, we picked up some filing cabinets from my Aunt who is moving and didn’t want them any more.  I have been saying I need filing cabinets for… years.   As I head into my 9th year of university the number of files I have managed to accumulate quite literally filled my closet (clothes [...]

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Ouch! or Of photographs and socks

Yesterday was the Yarn Harlot‘s book launch.  I spent the morning working (yes, like a good little scholar) and the afternoon trudging about our fair city (in the wind) with Martha  taking pictures of a pitifully small sock with various and sundry landmarks.  I ended up with 18 or 19 points.  Martha came in 3rd!!  I currently [...]

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