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Tour de Fleece - spinning along

Getting close to my "two well-plied skeins" goal now, still spinning every weekday. I'm spinning on Tour de France rest days because my goal is not to follow them exactly. Friday 10th July Working on the second bobbin of suri/icelandic, probably about halfway through. Pleasantly

Tweets for the week of July 10th

<li>Nothing says organization like 280 index cards and a terabyte backup hard drive. <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2456322631">#</a></li> <li>Baked cherry pie from scratch with Hubby for 4th of July family get

Tour de Fleece - Skein and bobbin

There are two separate Tour de Fleece's going on, the one I'm doing, and another one on Ravelry with prizes and hoopla. They both apparently started in 2006. A highlight of the Tour de Fleece I'm signed up with is the list of participant

Tour de Fleece - first skein

My goal for this year's Tour de Fleece is to spin every weekday of the Tour de France, and to have two decently plied skeins by the end. I tend to rush the plying and so it can be more twisty than it should be. Decided to leave

Independence Day

Saturday was our first Independence Day as American citizens. There's an irony in celebrating liberation from the country we were born in. We spent the day around Ste Genevieve with Pat and Jodi and Pat's family, swallowed up as siblings for the day. We got to

Tweets for the week of July 3rd

<li>Found out Michael Jackson died in the Mac store. Didn't believe it till we saw it on the BBC website too. Weird. <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2342532870">#</a></li> <li>Committing acts

Heatwave?

Monday night Hubby and I drove down to the Chocolate Bar for late night dessert: 10:20 pm, 28C (82.4F), and summer has finally arrived in St Louis. Facing a week of temperatures over 30C, Britain is declaring a heatwave. BBC News: Ten ways to beat the heat. After

Handspun Halfdome in progress

Knitting with handspun is a strange experience for me because I know this yarn. I knew it in roving form, when it was the softest of the 4oz balls of chocolate and vanilla fuzz on the shelf. Over several months I spun it onto a bobbin of singles, taking care

Tweets for the week of June 26th

<li>Citizenship ceremony starts in seven hours. Will not be handing back the British accent at the courthouse. <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2236839752">#</a></li> <li>Found a sewing pattern I might have to try.

Vulture bone flutes

BBC News: 'Oldest musical instrument' found. Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago. The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date. The researchers say in the Journal Nature that music

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