Category Archives: dyeing

Breathless

(tap tap tap…is this thing on?)
So…apparently I have a web site – the best kind of unexpected and wonderful surprise! I feel entirely invigorated to post but also completely tongue-tied and fairly certain no one  is going to be reading it!  Well, I know two people who will read it.
Wait, three.
So suddenly I have so much to do…pictures [...]

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Raw fleece…Thanksgiving dinner wild kingdom…and, ooh…shiny!

Massive picture-heavy post!
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians today – I hope your day is full of turkey and family (for some) and sleep and rest (for the others). I personally spent last night sleeping at the hospital wired up to within an inch of my life for a sleep study to see if I’ve [...]

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Misbehaving…camera (tilt head 90 degrees)

Hey all – long time no write! Summer sucked me in and spit me back out again – I can’t believe September is already here – packing lunches and homework again. Neither of these two activities rates high on my list of favourties due to the amount of knitting time lost during a [...]

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Low fibre content…pretty pictures!

I am…well…ridiculously wrecked. See the date? That is the day I uploaded the photos to blogger…as opposed to TODAY which is the 18th of August.
The new job is kicking me in the rear. I can’t explain why. It isn’t far off what I was doing before…just…more.
Anyway – here is the loveliest [...]

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Holidays…dealing with irritating wool…and I’m being stalked!

Quick note before I get into the post: Leanne is out of hospital! She and her gallbladder are officially “over”. She is definitely on the mend and happy to be back home. Thanks again for leaving her comments on her blog.
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Happy Monday everyone! Why is it happy? Why because I just started my holidays of [...]

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Take this pencil roving and…

So I owe you all a post that isn’t all like “blah blah blah etsy blah blah tired blah blah can’t think” right?
Right!
The newsI started my new-ish job today. And so far, I haven’t done anything new! This is probably because it is a) Monday and b) Monday before a statutory holiday. Downtown Ottawa is [...]

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A poem…

I gave it a try
To Navajo ply

Yeah, all right, I’m no poet. I can navajo ply however! At least NOW I can.

At first I got off to a rough start. This was not due to the singles I was plying which was lovely copper coloured superwash merino. It was not due to the teaching at [...]

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Mail!…what I spun…Q&A

Hi everyone – I have so much in my head I can’t possibly get it all down in one post or a) I’ll be here forever and b) it will make no sense.

So I’m going to curb my enthusiasm a bit and focus on one thing at a time.

The stuff that’s hit my mailbox this [...]

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There and back again; up to my ears in wool

The news

So the “dude” and I headed off into the wild blue yonder – ambled down the highway at a leisurely pace of 15 km per hour above the speed limit – to the Big City. Actually we hit surburbia and went to Whitby – about 50-odd (give or take 25 km depending on which [...]

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Blog Post of Reckoning

Today was the day. The day to pull out the knitting basket and find out what the hell is actually IN there. And it wasn’t pretty.

But first up – kitchen pics because someone has been asking and who am I to refuse?

The counter is actually a bit more rosy than the picture which makes it [...]

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