Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
A small plug
While I was stateside, I had the great fortune to be given a bar of soap from Goodies Unlimited. Shirley included it in the box of raw alpaca and wool she swapped me for my cross-stitch patterns and supplies, and I simply fell in love with it. This from the gal who typically doesn’t care for […]
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Natchez Trace
The Natchez Trace runs some 440+ miles from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. It’s an ancient animal trail which was later used by mound builders, then by the Southeastern tribes, then by colonials and settlers, the Pony Express, and the early military and regimental forces. Later the armies of the North and South picked it […]
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
A little experimental spinning
A little while ago, Natalie of The Yarn Yard suffered under enough of a delusion that I’m an expert spinner that she asked if I’d do a little test spinning for her with some hand-dyed fiber. Since the fiber was also one I’d never tried before, how could I possibly enlighten her and say no? […]
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
Today is also Wash Day
In the pauses today, I worked on washing this . . .
In June, I was fortunate enough to swap all my counted cross-stitch patterns and supplies for raw fleece from Shirley. I gave the white alpaca a pre-wash while I was stateside, but didn’t have the chance to do more until now. The […]
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
A Word about Needles
I have . . . er . . . a few knitting needles. Specifically, I have circulars. I can count on one hand the number of sets of straights and double-pointed needles in my possession; I use them very rarely. Because I’m frankly rotten at picking up dropped stitches and tend to […]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Fiberswap Goodies
Guess what came in last night’s mail?
(click for the Flickr image with embedded notes)
Bottom: multiple colors of merino-silk blend
Row 2, L–>R: bleached flax/silk, hemp, silk noil/viscose, Egyptian cotton, black diamond bamboo tops
Row 2.5: dyed Wensleydale locks, hand-dyed silk throwster’s waste
Row 3: tencel tops, soybean tops, bamboo tops, bleached flax tops
plus a notepad and a totally […]
