• Fibre Notes - Handspinning

    Fibre Notes: March 2021

    Ah March. I really love March. It’s not warm yet, but it’s definitely warmer, and I’ll take that after several months of winter. Snow starts to melt, temperatures are routinely up a bit, the geese are on their way back, magpies are nesting. March also begins the early seed starting, so once again I have my veggies to start tending,…

  • Fibre Notes - Handspinning - Spinning Projects

    Fibre Notes: February 2021

    February has at once been a short and long month, all rolled into one clump of a hazy 28 days where I’m not sure exactly what I did on any given day. When we bought our house there were sections in the basement unfinished to varying degrees, one of which is a workspace for me (which I am leaving unfinished…

  • Fibre Notes

    Fibre Notes: January 2021

    I’ve been thinking a lot about the Ravelry challenge (you say you want to make however many things and they track it for you), along with the Make 9 project, as I see all sorts of lists and plans that people have. I don’t really pre-plan projects, but something about that speaks to me. The most pre-planning I get is…

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    Fibre Notes: 2020

    So I did a pretty good job of doing one of these Fibre Notes once a month… up until August. That’s when we started looking for a house, and that’s when literally all ability to focus on anything else was zapped. It was our first home purchasing experience (hopefully last, but at the very least, last for a very, very…