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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…
July 23, 2015

This skein of yarn has been sitting in my stash for about a year. I loved it when I finished it but I’ve been torn about what to knit with it ever since. I finally decided…

Previous Posts

February 10, 2010

We are getting a dog. We have been waiting for about a year but we…
February 7, 2010

After a hectic start to the January semester, we were able to get out of…
January 29, 2010

It’s done. Amazingly, it didn’t take as long as I had anticipated. I was so…
January 9, 2010

We are still in Toronto. There is nothing really much to report. It’s very cold…
January 2, 2010

Things from 2009: Swatching. This was the single most important knitting lesson that I learned…