Plant has roots, yeah yeah yeah. Plant has roooooots.
Excited? You bet I am. For a while, I didn’t think they would ever sprout roots, and I had kind of given up on it. But now, at least one of them will be able to turn into a full plant. I love these things, and I [...]

A few months ago, I acquired an interesting plant. It’s doing quite well for itself.
The photo is a little dated. I took this back in May, when I was photographing the farmers’ market haul from that day. So, the plant has sprouted a few more leaves than it has in the picture here and probably [...]

To be fair, I had a really hard time getting nice pictures of this spin in progress. I think that’s enough of an excuse for the lack of blogging action.
I wanted to switch from the brown, natural roving to something a little more colorful and exciting to spin. I’d picked up some more Superwash Merino [...]

I’m going to at least try to blog most of the Tour. Even if it means combining days into posts.
Day 1: English Leicester lambswool singles.
I’ve been plodding along on these bobbins from the big bag of English Leicester lambswool that I picked up at Wisconsin Sheep and Wool last fall. I didn’t get far into [...]

I found out at about 2:30/3pm on Thursday that Friday was a paid day off. Louis had the day off, too (although he went in for about two hours to make up for missing about that much time on Thursday to wait for desk and washer/dryer delivery), so we decided to put the extra time [...]