Category Archives: spinning

A severe case of blog ennui

Anyone else have a bad case of “January”?
If you aren’t sure, the symptoms associated with “January” are:
1. Regret at having foregone making resolutions because it’s now the end of January and you haven’t even failed at anything yet.2. Sore toes from kicking the humungous block of ice stuck to the bumper behind the [...]

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Thanks to SP10 – goodbye kitchen from hell – Hello startitis!

(insert usual bloggy excuses for lameness of recent blogs, lack of updating and general laziness. Done? Good…let’s move on…)
First up…recent acquisitions and mergers!

First of all, there was a serious destashing that involved handing off some really yummy yarn I knew I’d never get around to knitting, or it was really nice stuff [...]

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As World Turns…um…Spins

I have been busy, but very dizzy these last few weeks. In no particular order I…
Dyed Wool!On the 4th, the loveliest of hostesses J at After Asia invited the Ottawa knitters to her place in the country for a day of dying on her lawn. In addition to J, there was Leanne of the fabu [...]

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We interrupt this blog!

As of 2 p.m. today I am on holidays!!!! I have no idea if this will mean more blogging or less – depends on how the spinning-knitting-travelling-house renovating goes. Of news-worthiness…

The Ashford Joy is heading off to Port Hope to be consigned tomorrow.
The Little Gem is also travelling to Port Hope because the [...]

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Something expensive happened on the way home from Toronto…

Apologies for the bluriness — that’s a bit closer than my camera likes.

If you know anyone who wants an single treadle Ashford Joy…I can hook them up…cheap!

More when I have time to update properly.

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Ottawa-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Ottawa (pause) Winchester

So I’ve been a bad blogger! I’ll leave you to fill in the blanks with all the usual excuses and get to the fun stuff!
Photo-free travel with stash enhancement
Two weeks ago I trekked to Toronto and then Montreal for some focus groups. I was in Toronto on Wednesday morning and decided that rather than sit [...]

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Happy dance!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2222856835555316581
Last night I went out and got an Ipod!
First – welcome to the 21st Century to me!
Second – send me your podcast favourites! I’m looking for podcasts about knitting (duh!), spinning, parenting (particularly if amusing and anecdotal). Or, if there is something out there you think might amuse me, please let me [...]

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Blogiversary Month Continues

Last week’s winner is blogless Wanna-Baa of the comments! Random number generation was witnessed by 3 kids hovering two inches away from my face during the entire process.
I don’t have pictures but next week’s draw is a dyer’s delight…
Winner gets to choose any two of the following three items:

2 silk scarf blanks from Dharma Trading [...]

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Blogiversary month!

Today is it! I’ve been blogging for a year and it seems like a good time to reflect on the whole experience. So given my penchant for point form synopses…here are my blog thoughts in no particular order… (by the way, if you want to skip the stream of consciousness and go straight to the [...]

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Picture post…

Many apologies for the absence. For the last month I have been coughing…and coughing…oh…did I happen to mention coughing? I am so freakin’ tired of it! Am taking my ashma meds but am also waiting on the results of a chest X-ray last week to make sure I don’t have pneumonia. Fun!
But I have been [...]

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