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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ooohhh silk…

I started spinning with the silk hankies (thanks Amelia for the encouragement), and then decided I’d just go ahead and dye them.  I’ve got a couple layers left natural and then I divided the rest into four roughly even sections and dyed each one a different colour (gold, red, burgundy, and purple).  I soaked them [...]

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Fiber Road Trip

Today I  took L. and baby and we went on a little road trip up to Gemini Fibers, to pick up my accessories in anticipation of the journey up to get my wheel.  (L. and baby… hmmm… not sure why baby has goa’uld eyes…) The trip was uneventful, baby was awesome and slept most of [...]

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Spring Cleaning

Yesterday I finally gave in and admitted that I wasn’t going to get anything substaintial done on the editing front this weekend.  And so, last night involved a lot of knitting. Some work on my left over sock yarn blanket (based off of this pattern from Ravelry), and I finished the foot and turned the [...]

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