I’m in the home stretch of a big event happening next week (AMA Omaha Pinnacles) and am starting to get my ass kicked by the final 6-7 weeks of pregnancy, so if I’m mum over the next week or so, its purely temporary. I have 8 posts lined up already to post on, and some [...]
Archive > April 2009
Cabled Yarn
I recently tried my hand at cabled yarn using the tutorial from the winter issue of SpinOff. With cabled yarn, you spin the single, then run it through the spinning wheel again, ply two (or more) together the normal way you’d ply, then ply two of the plied yarns together in the direction oppisite to [...]
On (Coming Back to) the Cosmos
I’ve been watching the Cosmos miniseries on Hulu. Had it not been for the Bad Astronomer, I probably would never have given Cosmos a second look, but after Phil posted that it was available, I started watching. It’s not that I dislike Carl Sagan (actually, every single thing I see or hear or read, by [...]
To plan or to play?
Lately I’ve come to see knitting and spinning as something for which I do not want to use a plan. By “plan” I mean, I’ve frequently had the following conversation in yarn stores: You: “Great yarn – what do you plan to make with it?” Me: “Buhhhhhhhh…..I dunno” I buy yarn because I like the [...]
Advice for the pregnant
Recently, a good friend of mine “turned up pregnant” – she’s still in the first three months, so I promised to write down a list of things for her that I thought she’d need to know, or that would be helpful. Being pregnant my own self, its taken me about six weeks to do, and [...]
We have worms
I’ve seen the Make Magazine post on starting your own worm composting bin make its way around the blogs in my RSS reader, so I wanted to share that we actually have our own worm bin, courtesy of my husband Jason. Our setup is pretty much the same as the one in Make. This was [...]
Yarndex Review
My favorite thing about Ravelry is the yarn listing. One of my biggest challengs (craftwise, anyway) is what to knit with my 49 miles of yarn (and before you ask, yes, I totally added yarn to the stash since the great yarn catalouging….in my defense, I made most of it). The Ravelry yarn listings really [...]
On routine & the lack of work
Yesterday morning, Morning Edition ran a story about willpower that resonated as I’ve been thinking about willpower and its evil twin sister, routine. In college (and somewhat beyond), I used to say to people “I only have a routine so that I can deviate from it.” While I was comforted by the “get up at [...]
