• 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…

  • Handspinning - Spinning Projects

    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…