Category: Spinning
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The Heart of the Matter
Reference Well, I had a different title and everything for this post back on Monday morning; but just as I was publishing the last entry, I got a phone call from my mother. Now, my mother never calls me unless something is up. She, in particular, doesn’t call me in the morning just to chat. It…
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Spinning Around
Reference Well, I am getting back to weaving, but by route of my spinning wheel. No, I am not working on the rug yet. Instead, I am working on an idea that came to me a little while ago. I am hoping working on this idea will help me get my weaving mojo back so…
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Restless
Reference Since finishing the socks for my father, I have been feeling very restless. I can’t really decide what to do next. I have a lot of ideas for new projects, but am not sure whether to start any of them because of other things that are going on outside of my fiber world that…
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Seems You’re Much Too Busy
Reference Posts here are going to slow down. (Actually, they have already slowed down, but they are going to slow down even more.) Here’s why: Remember these? Well, it is that time of year; and keeping up with the leaves takes quite a bit of time. As one of our neighbors put it, “[The previous…
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Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Reference You might think from this post that I have a huge case of startitis, but I have a very logical excuse explanation for all of it. No. Really. I do. First off, I have finally started Mr. Penney’s sweater. More specifically, the sleeve of his sweater. As you can see in the picture, I…
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Dress You Up
Reference One sock down, one to go. I was happily knitting away on this sock on Sunday when I decided to take the ball of yarn to the scale to determine how much yarn I had left and when I should switch from doing the double basketweave to ribbing. Good timing, luckily, because I only…
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Hello
Reference Well, the socks for Mr. Penney were completed and washed this weekend. Though they don’t exactly look like matching socks, to me at least, they do feel nice. I believe Interlacements uses the same merino superwash that Cherry Tree Hill uses. Nothing confirmed on that, though. Because I finished the socks for Mr. Penney,…
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You Better Run
Reference UPDATE: I have made a separate page for this so everyone doesn’t have to go looking through old posts to keep up to date on this. I need your help. I am signed up to run in the Komen Maryland Race for the Cure on October 14th, and I would like you to sponsor me.…
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Dirty Little Secret
Mr. Penney and I are mostly homebodies. Most of this is because we have gotten past the point of wanting to do the clubs and such. Another reason though, is because we have someone back home that we have to take care of: Bogey is a nine year old beagle that has been with Mr.…
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Mom’s shawl
This is what happens when I try to spin wool to make socks. I originally purchased the wool to spin this yarn intending to make socks. after spinning the yarn (I hadn’t yet mastered, at that point, the art of controlling the type of yarn that I spun,) I decided that it wasn’t strong enough…