Bellwether

In an attempt to post more regularly, I present this crappy cameraphone picture of Icarus:

That’s a couple of rows into the third repeat of the first chart. I’m finding that the boring mostly-stockinette part is good for picking up and putting down again–I did most of this in the airport(s) or on the plane(s), [...]

My LYS is under new (and improved) management now and me and Veronica decided to go and take a look-see.
The change in owners is, I think, going to be a great thing for the store. The energy in there now is really fantastic and positive (the new owner is a woman who was an [...]

150 yards, about an ounce of fiber from Franquemont Fibers. 17:1 ratio used on wheel. Short draw draft (because I still can’t do long draw or spin finely from the fold).
Well. I tried to match the colors up and partially succeeded. At the beginning and end of the skein. There [...]

I love my hand cards. Love love love them. (My knuckles, on the other hand, are deeply ambivalent.) I started out carding together fibers that I didn’t care much about–and destroyed a lot of fiber in the process–and then decided to try to make some blends for sampling that I’d actually want [...]

I haven’t had a chance to download my pictures from MDSW yet (or take pictures of my phat lewtz), but I went, I bought, I snarked, it was a good time (as usual).
I got to see a lot of people–Mac, Christine, Missy, and a bunch of other people from LiveJournal (who I’m not going to [...]