Wednesday, October 14, 2009
… There is a season (turn, turn, turn)… And apparently, it is blogging season again. I seem to have a finite amount of self-discipline, and I squandered it all on home renovations and business stuff over the last while, leaving my poor blog to languish. In apology, I give you this: …the latest addition to [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]