One my problems when trying to set a goal for the TdF is the sheer poundage of spinnables that I actually have on hand – it’s been making me crazy trying to decide what to do. It’s just too much choice: I keep picking out fibres, sampling them, putting them back… it’s out of hand. [...]
What did I say about waiting until the last possible moment to make a Tour de Fleece commitment? Here it is, 24 hours away, and all the bobbins on my wheel are full and I am just now trying to decide what colour I want to dye the fleece I’m planning to use. I perform [...]
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 [...]
My goal for Le Tour de Fleece this year was to spin at least 500 grams of fibre out of my stash. I thought that was a modest goal, and quite do-able…. and it should have been. I’m not really sure what happened. I thought up a lot of excuses – I did get many [...]
Yesterday was supposed to be a dyeing day, but when I went out in the yard to start setting up, I found this sitting on my fence. He was screeching at me to feed him: I’m not much on regurgitating worms, so I decided that the better part of valour was to retreat and wait [...]
This morning, Himself woke me at oh-my-god:30 to go upcountry with him to a farm auction. Now, I like a good auction… but I’d looked at the photo previews of this one, and not being the one in the family with the blacksmithing hobby, it held very little interest for me. I had no intentions [...]
Yesterday was our traditional July family gathering; I spent it playing with the grandchildren and visiting with people I only see a couple of times a year. Our gracious host, my sister-in-law, laid out a groaning table of hot bar-b-q and cool summer dishes, all of it irresistibly delicious and impossible to pass by without [...]
I pulled out my wheel today and did some thinking about my Tour de Fleece goals. Since the theme this year is stash-busting, I decided that it would be smart to start with finishing what I’ve already got sitting on the bobbin: some lovely natural brown mix romney roving from Custom Woolen Mills in Alberta. [...]
So far, I’ve managed to resist the urge to start a blog (really, does the knitosphere need yet another one?) And I think you’d have to be seriously starved for entertainment to find my work amusing or diverting. But then, I came across Le Tour de Fleece 2008, and it seems that having a blog [...]
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