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Tender Buttons 19 Aug 2013 | 07:27 am
I've been working on a project that needs buttons. I wish I could show it to you, but it's for Knitty. If you leak a pattern for Knitty before the issue is published, Amy Singer drives by your house a...
I Am Ply-Curious 1 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
It tells you something about the circles I run in that when I mentioned I was about to try making a three-ply yarn for the first time, somebody said, "You haven't done that yet? At your age?" What ca...
Finish Line 28 Jul 2013 | 01:51 am
I've set the timer for ten minutes. That's how long I have to write and post this entry. I must apologize in advance for the perfectly crummy photographs in this post. I'm always telling students in ...
Lush Life 25 Jul 2013 | 01:12 am
Through no merit of my own, I've been sprawled in the lap of luxury for the past several days. This is one of those spa hotels where the spa is a real spa, not a couple of beige, palm-infested rooms c...
Fiber Factory of One 18 Jul 2013 | 06:51 pm
It's a good week when I look at current projects and there's been some progress on most of them. The Tour de Fleece continues, and to my great surprise I've managed so far to meet the challenge of do...
I Have Four Conversations with Four Total Strangers About One Piece of Knitting 12 Jul 2013 | 04:06 am
This is the piece of knitting. Gentleman's Bathing Drawers (c. 1880) in Quince and Co. Chickadee for the Nautical Knitting Cruise with Melissa Leapman First Conversation Stranger: What are you maki...
I Think I'm Beginning to Love This 10 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
It is finished. Not the Tour de Fleece–that's still going on, and I have to pick the next fiber to spin–but this yarn, this yarn I didn't figure I'd even be able to ply before the race was done, is f...
And Then There Was Yarn 8 Jul 2013 | 01:33 am
I can't stop looking at it. There were a few concerned suggestions that I must not, must not turn the two Corriedale bobbins into a two-ply. The reason? The singles were (thanks to the arrangement of...
Faster Than a Speeding Pullet 6 Jul 2013 | 03:30 am
I was told that once I started to get the hang of woolen long draw, I'd find it somewhat faster than the worsted technique I've always used before–a technique so slow it is not infrequently referred t...
Woolly Pully 3 Jul 2013 | 06:16 am
The bathing drawers yarn is still in transit. I'm so excited about it that I've begun to palpitate slightly at the sight of delivery vans. Is my yarn in that one? It could be! Is it? No? Well, what ab...
