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ughhh...now i am sick! that is what i get for not being more sympathetic when dan and the boys were sick.... :-( -
hey all you spinning mamas
how do you mommies out there find time to spin ( Read more... ) -
colds schmolds
i guess the macrobiotic spurt i was in has now moved to a vegan spurt with macrobiotic tendencies. while i love the healthy food, i just can't get the whole philosophy in tact and fear i will starve the family while i figure it out. it is tempting to go whole hog though--macros claim that eating that way will cure you from all disease and illness ( Read more... ) -
Ode to My Brother
I have decided to expand the scope of this blog since Ben says it is a little boring to read about yarn all the time. So I am broadening a little to include yarn, fiber and MOTHERING. I know that probably won't interest Ben much either, but at least I won't only be posting yarn skeins in various shapes. I added a new look just to really 'go' with ( Read more... ) -
my yarn in action
Just back from our xmas vacation in Indy...it ended with all of us catching a cold! Isn't airline travel amazing--our cold is probably the cold my brother brought from Maine and now here we are exposing Albuquerque to it. Our holiday was great and loved seeing the family and my hometown--we even got a few nights away from the kids ( Read more... ) -
Orange Challenge
I have been frantically working on getting my Learning Exchange spinning done for HGA. I would never have signed up if I had realized that 90 yards plus 18 inches of wrapped yarn would be due the WEEK BEFORE XMAS!!! It has been fun though--I have been experimenting with the color orange--I tried using it as an accent color in a mostly blue, green ( Read more... ) -
winding
I decided I needed to wind up all of my skeined yarn so I could have ready access for it as I get inspired to make things for the holidays. So I spent all of the 'after nap' time doing that, which is usually the cranky time of day where both boys are crying to be held. This helped because they were both so curious as to what I was doing with the ( Read more... ) -
carding like crazy
I rented a drum carder from my LYS and have been carding absolutely every fiber I have into these amazing bats....seeing the colors and textures in the bats is rewarding enough--I can't imagine how amazing the results will be when I spin it up! I feel like I have found out something 'secret' about the drumcarder because when I learned to spin the ( Read more... ) -
Hmm...a little splash of red
I started spinning some natural Karakul with splashes of red, maroon and purple natural-dyed Churro and just hated working with the natural Karakul so I made a small amount. Now that it is all skeined, I really like it and want MORE of it! Back to the wheel! Here is a pic:
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