SOAR!*First, before I get all snipey, as always, the people from Interweave and the Spinners themselves, are spectacular people I’ve been able to spend a van ride and a breakfast with Jan and Meg from the UK (Basingstoke–home of the Magic Roundabout) and they once again confirmed my love of all fiber folk. We’re just great. Okay, enough of the happy happy. We got here after a VERY HOT AND HUMID VAN RIDE–for which I...

SPS! This time I remembered! Boys are sleeping, head is stuffy (thanks to a surprise cold) but the day has gone well. I was asked to teach about 12 kids at the Synagogue how to spin and knit/crochet a kippah or yarmulke. We’ve got four Sundays to do it in; today was the first. The kids are…um…hyper. But some of them are shockingly good spinners (two boys, two girls) the rest are going to take some time to work with. We were...

Baby Jessica's sweater begins. . .HeatherViaPhone

I should get more sleep. My husband will crack up when he sees this because, when he’s home, I generally get eight hours (without which, you really don’t want to be around me…really). When he’s gone, though, I putter. I am able to putter my circuitous way around the house, putting up pictures, making things right, gradually going through drawers and filling boxes with Things To Go Elsewhere–not that they ever GET...

A night's workHeatherViaPhone

So, one of the ladies on one of my knitting/spinning blogs was asking for a quick and dirty tensioned Lazy Kate. I uploaded pics to the Yahoo group but they’re hard to find so I’m putting them here. I call mine Ugly Kate, but she works just fine. I used fishing line on a darning needle, dowels that would fit all my bobbins, paper “straws” on my drop spindles that would fit on the same dowels, a phillips screwdriver to...