Spinning FO: Identification

The Yarn Harlot's new book Knitting Rules mentions several ways to identify anonymous yarn, including setting it on fire and dissolving it in bleach.  I found a slightly less dangerous way: Shipping tags.  You can label each piece of yarn with what it is and where it came

Bullet points

Spun, plied, and washed my mini-skein on Tuesday, it's dry now. George was not as easy to spin as the Coopworth, but the dyed fibre was nice.  It's a lot less even than my wheel-spun, but it's not as thick as my last spindle

You can't see me

BBC News: 'Cloaking device' idea proposed. The cloaking devices that are used to render spacecraft invisible in Star Trek might just work in reality, two mathematicians have claimed. They have outlined their concept in a research paper published in one of the UK Royal Society's scientific

Bible study

Martha and I got drafted to do the study for 1 Corinthians 3 tonight.  The text breaks into three sections, v1-9, v10-17, v18-22.  This is what we came up with as study questions.   What do you think? (v4) For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "

Back in the saddle

It's Tuesday, Hubby's out, there's Stargate SG-1 in the DVD player, and I'm spinning on the spindle again.  My plan is to use George, the chunk of cream roving I got free from the yarn store, and the puff of green and

Hello Spinner

Today was the final spinning class and I had to give the spinning wheel back.  We plied our homework into skeins of real live yarn, wound it using a niddy-noddy, flick-carded some unwashed fleece, and hand carded some washed and dyed fleece.  I spun a little ball of "greasy

Incoming!

Harloted (verb) To find your blog innundated by a vast army of knitters in response to a link from the Yarn Harlot.  (Similar to getting Slashdotted but by much nicer people.)  Effects include blog comments from total strangers and a feeling of bogglement that lasts at least 24 hours after

"Obsession is normal" - Yarn Harlot

(I'm mildly freaked out that there's a real live picture of me online, this has never happened before.  Everyone that's turned up from Yarn Harlot, hi there!  Thanks for the comments, and come back and visit.  Or run away screaming, it's all

Scarily accurate

Acccording to Stephanie, I am seen as both "dim and archaic" because I knit and spin.  Got my photo taken with The Sock (which never seems to get any bigger) and said hello.  Also got a couple of inches knitted on Hubby's sock.  Laugh out loud

Roving

Spinners, where do you get roving from?  By the end of this week I'll be through my 8oz bag of Coopworth from Copper Moose and I'm wondering what to get next.  Can I try Merino this time, or should I stick to another sheep?  I'