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Last night I learned some new weaving lessons: 1 – Measure twice, warp once. Turns out my math was WAY off (we’re talking crazy new maths wrong) and I have just enough thread to warp and THAT’S IT! I have a feeling I either carried a decimal too far or not enough. 2 – I [...]

Christmas at Casa Del Gauhaus was relatively uninventfull with minor (yet still annoying) DRAMA!!!!! The kids got some nice outfits and a few more toys that we usually get them due to a mess up with the order we had placed in early December with a large Canadian online retailer that had me out gift [...]

It’s 7:38AM and I’m ready to go back to bed. I just shoveled close to 15cms (that would be a guage swatch and a half for the knitter’s) of heavy wet snow off my drive way and the tenants walkway. The whole time I kept thinking “Why am I doing this? It’s only going to [...]

I just need an extra day or two to put the finishing touches on the last three projects. If the kids were compliant and would sit quietly in a corner and play with out fighting I could actually have them done…but we all know how that is going to go…so a few people are getting [...]

I quite like the Solstice! Imbolc is my all time favourite holiday, but the Solstice is a very close second with Samhain coming in third… I’m going to celebrate it by predrafting some lovely Pippykneesocks roving I have in the Pagoda colourway (something about those colours makes me think SOLSTICE and SPIN ME WOMAN!!!!!) in [...]

I’m listening to the CBC radio noon hour phone in show today and one of the topics is about wether or not scientists should “raise” a wooly mammoth from some DNA the have found. So as people are giving their opinions all I can think is: Yeah that’s all well and good…but CAN YOU SPIN [...]

I’ve decided to make a conscious effort to get off my butt and learn new fiber techniques to help feed my love of my Craft and I’m starting with the loom! Ever since I heard Betty Davenport interviewed by Syne about rigid heddle weaving in Episode 14 of WeaveCast, I’ve had a theory that I [...]

1 – I knit WAY slower than I think I do! 2 – As a result of #1, a bunch of people are going to get a picture of what their gift is going to look like once I’m done knitting it. This will have to keep them warm until I’m done with the knitting. [...]

I came home yesterday to find a Notice had been left by the Mailman stating that there was a package for me and I could pick it up tomorrow (that would be today) after 1pm.  Both Chris and I couldn’t figure out what it was and having to wait was really annoying, I have recently [...]

Last night Chris and watched Zach and Miri Make a Porno, and Dudes! there is a fair amount of rather cute knit and crochet hats, scarfs and I believe a pair of mitts or two. Plus there is a line about giving a sales girl in a store at the mall some free yarn in [...]