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August 20, 2015

This combo spin has been hanging out on my wheel(s) for a while … just being done as I want to work on it. Combo Spin :: Spunky Eclectic Polwarth in October 2014 Fibre Club “Hungry”…
August 17, 2015

There are many, many, many spinning approaches out there and each does the exact same thing: Spin fibre into yarn. There are any number of saxony, castle, Norwegian, modern, electric and spindle (Charkha, quill, etc) wheels,…
August 10, 2015

Per my agreement with my No. 1 partner (aka my husband), I am spinning from stash for much of the rest of the year. We have two festivals in the fall that I faithfully attend ::…
August 3, 2015

There are many posts out there about superwash yarn and how it is made. I think it’s important to be informed about the process, and like Bren says of the Snerb Yarn blog, then you can…
July 30, 2015

About a year ago, when Norah was really wee, I was driving through a southern Vancouver neighbourhood called The River District and found myself dreaming about baby toques. Problem was, once I started dreaming about it,…
July 28, 2015

This was a very fast spin but it sat on my bobbins forever. In an effort to clean them off for Tour de Fleece this year (2015), I decided to ply these up for Ply Days…
July 26, 2015

Thank you for listening to this slightly different format! As I mention in the episode, I am exploring different mediums to decide how I want to proceed with the podcast. For show notes, see below. If…

Previous Posts

March 13, 2014

It was not my intention to go this long between posts when I revived the…
February 11, 2014

I’m not actually sure where the time has gone – this ‘New Year’ is flying…
December 8, 2013

I hung up my blogging hat in May and it is now December … where…
May 29, 2013

After much deliberation, and having done this in the past but knowing that this is…
March 13, 2013

It is overdue but it is finished! I started this test knit back in early…