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Category Archives: ACME Fibres

Get on your bike and ride

I can’t believe it’s almost time for the 2009 Tour de Fleece already. For those of you that haven’t been touched by that sort of crazy, the Tour de Fleece runs parallel to the Tour de France bicycle race; spinners set spinning challenges for themselves and try to meet them during the course of the [...]

Sock It To Me

The humble sock is probably my favourite thing to knit – they are simple, useful and relatively quick to make.  Socks are portable; you only need to haul one skein around.  You can make them with subtle yarns or outlandish ones.  They can be as complicated or as simple as you like. This sock is [...]

ACME Fibres Goes Live

The world economy is in the dumpster, and probably isn’t going to start looking up for a long time – maybe years.  Times are tough and getting tougher; fully half of my extended family members are laid off or had their pay cut back… including yours truly.  Worries about the future abound; people are saving, [...]