Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Dec31
I’ve spent the past couple of evenings messing about with my blog setup. First, it was a botched upgrade to the latest MT release. Once upgraded, I decided to fiddle with the templates. Yes, not much visible difference for the number of hours that I’ve spent on this instead of knitting. So, I’m officially throwing [...]
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Dec28
There are 3 more days in the quarter. I’ve been trying to tackle all the WIPs to cut it down a bit in order to come close to my quarterly goals. I’m one sleeve plus 3″ from finishing one sweater, and most of a sock to go. I don’t know if I’ll make it. My [...]
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Dec27
Want to know how you can help in the aftermath of the 9.2 earthquake in the Indian Ocean and the surrounding countries? Send money. No blankets. Not knitting/knitted items. Just money. We are talking survival now. Relief organizations need cold, hard cash to buy food, water and medicine. It costs people and money to process [...]
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Dec13
I spun up about 1,600 yards of 2-ply sport weight moorit merino a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been in recovery ever since. Not only was that a lot of spinning, but it was spinning a darkish wool (red brown) in the evenings, but I was attempting to do it all with a long-draw [...]
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