I never think to take photos of my WIPs outside, because I don’t often pay attention to the outdoors of where I live. My camera isn’t the greatest, and to maximize the detail I get in the photos I need a lot of light. I generally get some good natural light in the one window, [...]

I had a very nice afternoon starting my sweater, as my yarn came in today! I did all the prep work, swatching, measuring, washing the swatch, measuring (it was mostly dry), re-reading the pattern, re-sizing myself, then I FINALLY cast-on. Yes, it’s on straights. The pattern calls for circulars, and I even started with a set [...]

I am getting so many packages lately, and yet I still haven’t exceeded my monthly spending money. I think I had much more than I thought I did, and I really should enjoy it while I can since we want to start having children in a couple years. Excuse for a stash? Hm… Anyways, yesterday I [...]

In one of the Ravelry groups I’m in (Spindlers) we’ve started a monthly challenge with this month as the first. The theme for this month is “Halloween” of course, and basically we need to just find a way to incorporate that somehow into the theme. Some have mentioned spinning glow in the dark stuff with [...]

Remember this? OK, so there isn’t much there and it’s mostly a picture of the spindle. However, there is a start of yarn there which is currently becoming this… My first real handspun lace!  After winding it onto the skein winder I decided to measure the length around, count the number of wraps, and figure out the [...]

I am totally a bibliophile and have to convince myself to not get a book sometimes, because it’s something I know I’ll never read. The older the book, the harder it is to resist. Published before the 1940s, and you have piqued my interest. Add an old cloth hard, or even leather bound book about [...]

My first contribution to the LibriVox Exercises in Knitting project is done! I love it, and it’s tied around my head right now. The project I signed up for was just a stitch pattern, so I decided to knit it into one of my favorite knitted objects: a kerchief. I have like 5 or 6 [...]

Today’s pictures are not my own, I admitt. However, they’re meant to illustrate some of the work going on over at LibriVox among the quite large number of knitters over there. Knitting and audiobooks just seem to go perfectly together. I swear, I’ve been thinking and doing a lot of spinning this week. Somehow it just [...]

Last week I made the mistake of checking out Golding Fiber Tools, and holy crap-crap-crap! Their spindles are dangerous on the bank account, and don’t even think about the other stuff they make. I sort of…bought one of the spindles in a moment of weakness. It was a less expensive lace weight one, and I [...]