Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Spin 10
The Stats
Fiber: Ashland Bay Merino-Tussah (70-30) roving from Mielke’s Farm, Sea Mist.
Finished Weight: 454 grams/15.9 ounces
Yardage: ca 962, 2-ply (657; 305)
WPI: ca 16
Spun on: Rose and the 1 ounce Woolly Designs Kokopelli.
The Lessons
I hadn’t intended on spinning this blend again quite so soon, but I started it while I was stateside and wanted something familiar. […]
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Real, live spinners
One of the advantages to going stateside for a little while was that I was able to meet some real, live spinners, face to face. I had the pleasure to join a small group of Tallahassee Knitters at their Thursday evening meeting, during which one knitter—Hazel—dragged out her spindle to keep me company.
I met with […]
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Going postal
The US Postal Service has done it again. They lose their minds at regular intervals, and now seems to be that time again.
Some time ago, they changed air mail to overseas locations (without telling their customers, incidentally, and while continuing to charge air mail rates). Packages were shipped air mail to Europe. From there, […]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Home
They say that you can’t go home again. Truthfully, it isn’t always easy. Home comes with its own stresses, strains, and adjustments. But they’re familiar things, and while I recognize that some people truly cannot go home and have good reasons for not wanting to do so, I’m not one of them.
There […]
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
A partial inventory
Yesterday, I managed to get through part of the chaos, part of the e-mail (including one panicked student who had overlooked the fact that I would be entirely disconnected from the Internet for the past three weeks and probably thought I was ignoring her, poor kid), most of the laundry, find (but not entirely unbury) […]
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Across the Pond and back again
Well, so much for updating the blog during the trip! Seriously, I had forgotten how much longer dial-up takes than broadband. Whoof!
In any event, we got back last night, safe and sound, and the house is the usual disastrous “day after” chaotic mix of unpacked, unplaced, and unwashed. I’ve reduced the thousand+ […]
