I am an obsessive weirdo fascinated with documenting things. A while after I started spinning, I realized it might be a good idea to keep track. There are so many variables to handspun yarn — what if I wanted to duplicate a particular yarn later and had no idea how I’d made it in...
Helper Cat: A photo essay with bonus cat hair
This is something I posted on a Ravelry group ages ago in a discussion of Helper Cats. I came across it while trying to find something else and thought I’d put it up here, with a few extra photos from Instagram. (A few of these are from the very bad iPod camera era of...
Projects Begetting Projects
I’ve had the Central Park Hoodie pattern — and the yarn I’d planned to make it with — for something like eight years. I absolutely adore this sweater. But I felt seriously lacking in the confidence to actually make the sweater. I wasn’t sure about size, and then my gauge swatch was wonky, and...
Twisty
I got a spinning wheel recently (yay!) and have been playing with string a lot. I had a pound of undyed Polwarth top set aside for when the wheel came since I knew there’d be a bit of a learning curve even though I’ve been spinning on spindles for five years. I spun up...