Pocahontas County Textile History
Here’s an addition to my “local history of textiles collection” from William T. Price’s Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County. (1901) Price includes many discussions of “how they did things in the...
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A Little More Spinning
I’ve done a little more spinning of the troublesome local fleece, although I’ve accomplished very little else. I’ve been substituting in a vacant teacher’s position for the last few weeks. That means...
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Spinning Away the Troublesome Bits
While my vision was messed up last month by a string of migraines, I had a chance to do a little spinning. This is the “troublesome local fleece” I’ve been working on for the last year. The end of it...
View ArticleTroublesome Plastic Bag Build-Up
The garden is done for the year. I’m already missing the fresh vegetables, but there is another negative as well: My plastic grocery bag collection is building up again. I use plastic bags to bring in...
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Label ‘em Up, and Move ‘em Out
It’s come to my attention that my storage space is finite, the most crowded corners being occupied by fabric and fiber. With this in mind, I gathered up my odd skeins of hand spun wool yarns, priced...
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A Little Late Winter Spinning
In my continuing efforts to clear some closet space, I’ve been spinning a plastic tub full of dyed and carded fleece. Yarn takes up so much less space than wool batts! These four colors of Rambouillet...
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Spinning Away a Winter Virus
Other than these skeins of Rambouillet yarn, I have little to show for the past few days. I thought I might get through a winter without a head cold, but a virus got a hold of me, and my mental acuity...
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HansenCrafts miniSpinner electric spinning wheel
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Feature-Rich Rambouillet Wool Socks
Here’s my most recent knitting–socks from my crock-pot-dyed, hand-spun Rambouillet fleece. Several years ago, I decided that this neppy, lumpy wool was not a failure, but an interesting exercise in...
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