52 Churches

When I got back from Camp Pluckyfluff a few weeks ago, this was waiting for me: It’s a skein tensioner that Michael had worked on all day to make.  (Shown here with yarn that I spun at Camp Pluckyfluff, that’s been wet and is having the twist set). It’s a bit unwieldy, being so long, [...]

My niece, Brooke, is turning one, and I am in California to meet her and attend her party.  Farmerteen ships off to camp tomorrow, so neither she nor Michael came along. I decided something homemade was the way to go, and, since she’s still little, I created these balls.  There’s a back story, that goes [...]

Woot! Camp Pluckyfluff was held this weekend at Paradise Fibers with the fabulous Lexi Boeger. For two days, she taught us to spin amazing crazy yarns. Here’s a cloud she spun: And the table, full of the skeins the class did over the two days:

This group waxes and wanes, and the membership is always a little different from week to week. Ironically, it was Ennalorac (seen here in red) who first thought we ought to have a crafting retreat at Camp Cross . . . but didn’t herself make it.

Camp Cross is beautiful in early June.  The air is crisp and clear, the bugs aren’t yet frisky and vengeful, the sun is beautiful but not oppressive, and a group like ours has the camp to ourselves. We did wait a little too late in the day, and had a brisk, but very pleasant, boat [...]

Have you seen this snail hat before? Poor, homely snail hat. It’s got the lovely snail and all those beautiful lady bug beads . . . and I can’t remember if I wrote about it already or not.

Spinners, weavers, scrapbookers, knitters, crocheters, quilters, beaders, writers, embroiderers, card makers, felters, poets, . . . whatever your craft, come join women from the Inland Northwest at beautiful Camp Cross for relaxing weekend of crafting, reading, and hanging out. Register here for the Crafting Retreat, June 5-7.

I was going to say that I wish I could remember how long it took me to make this bonnet. But I don’t. It was a really cool project, using the pattern from Card, Knit, Wear: Unspun Caps by Carol Huebscher Rhoades in the Winter 2008 issue of Spin-Off Magazine. (I happened to have spun [...]

I’m afraid I haven’t any pictures to accompany this story . . . which you’ll realize is a shame, momentarily. Moose lie down in the snow.  They seem to lie down, if you can picture this, as if you had gone “moose tipping,” which is to say, on their sides.  When it snows, they leave [...]

This hat is hand knit from hand-dyed, handspun yarn, comprised of wool and silk threads and glass lady bugs that are spun into the yarn. I originally spun it as the Douglas Spalding Yarn from Fiber in the Hands of an Angry Spinner, when I was selling yarns. I have kind of a fat head [...]