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    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…

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    Fleece to Sweater – The 2020 Project

    I love my yearly fleece to sweater project. It’s something I started in 2017, wherein I take a whole year to produce one finished garment from the raw stage right through to the completed project. I could produce more than one a year – two definitely, maybe three if I sacrificed other projects along the way. But the point of…

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    Fibre Notes: August 2020

    It’s definitely fall here in Central Alberta. The leaves started changing in the last week, and there’s a noticeable nip in the air (in fact, we had a frost warning last night, although I’m not sure we actually got any frost). Summer kind of went by in one big haze – I imagine it did for a lot of us.…