Happy New Year! This post will engage in activity fairly unpopular for New Year’s Day: looking back into the past. Well, only into yesterday, when I had the extreme good fortune and pleasure of visiting Blue Moon Fiber Arts’ open house in Scappoose, OR! It was a delightfully terrible day for a drive… I absolutely [...]

I know I already craftily engineered a way to keep my feet warm this winter, but it turns out I couldn’t stop there. I had to knit some thrummed slippers to further seal out those cold drafts! These are the greatest. I’ve been wearing them for the past few nights with great delight. The Cascade [...]

To finish the seemingly endless amounts of ribbing on my sweater so speedily, I knitted on that project almost exclusively. Consequently, I had a fit of startitis and started a bunch of smaller new projects when it was done! I have three new projects that I haven’t shown you yet, but let’s take them one [...]

I couldn’t even wait to take a couple “before” pictures of my latest fibery endeavor before I jumped right in and started spinning. I had ordered this lovely spindle from Spinsanity to allow me to spin lighter yarns than my heavier homemade one. It’s great! I really love how it looks, and how the square [...]

With all the spinning posts popping up around here, you might be wondering if I’m getting any knitting done at all these days! My knitting has definitely slowed down with all the spinning, but I was able to finish a design project and reading a novel over the weekend on top of making yarn (and [...]