If you are in the St. John’s (Newfoundland) area, a crafty sort and like a good deal, be sure to drop by Devon House (Duckworth Street) tomorrow morning. The Annual Seconds Sale is on and there’s plenty to see! There’s about one hundred pounds of this stuff, dyed in marvellous colours. I’ve had to sit…
Category: yarn
Spinning out of control
I think I might be losing my mind. I’m certainly losing time, only an hour of which I can blame on Dubyah. Yesterday I turned the blue and pink of this: Into this: It’s a single-ply, rather lightweight wool. I made it from the stuff I bought for needle felting. I discovered this winter that…
Woolly weekend, part 3 (warm and spinning)
Sunday was simply gorgeous. It was a balmy five degrees Celsius and things melted in a big way. I’d say, judging by the trunks of the trees on the front lawn, that we lost a foot of snow. It was fabulous. We did a bunch of household things (emptying compost, hacking snow in the driveway,…
Woolly weekend, part 2 (Saturday)
John and I have been itching to get the heck outta Dodge for a while now and when Saturday dawned, bringing sun and clear roads, we ran a couple of errands and hit the highway. Our destination was two-fold; the studio of a hand-spinner whom I know through the NL Craft Council who lives in…
Woolly weekend, part 1 (wool store)
As I mentioned on Friday, Katherine and I went to a wool store (Wool Trends, 238 Hamilton Avenue). I was looking for some new yarn as (and I hesitate to even say this as I know true knitters will cross themselves or mutter incantations against my influence) I was completely out of yarn for a…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 