I am still knitting, I just don't write about it here as much. I'm still doing a lot of socks, I'm still doing a lot of shawls, I have a sweater in progress for Erik that's been sitting there since I was 5 weeks pregnant with Lillian. But my new bug is mittens. Fancy, fiddly, fine-gauge colorwork mittens. In particular, the black-and-white mittens ( Read more... )

About one tenth of you will actually care about this. Everyone else, carry on.

A couple of days ago, I got a notice saying that theredhead had removed my access as an spinningfiber mod. She didn't respond when I asked her what was up, so I asked the rest of the mod team; none of them knew anything either. She'd also turfed huaman, who pretty much single-handedly saved the ( Read more... )

Wow, Lillian is totally walking now. She started walking about a week and a half ago, and I've just been too busy chasing her to update. She still falls down all the time, but she makes pretty good time. Now I need to get her shoes with treads on them. *snif* my little baby, growin up ( Read more... )

The issue of Spin-Off with my story and project came!

(risu, I asked them to change the name, but they liked it better with the pseudonym I originally submitted it with, so they kept it as Imping Julia. Editorial voice.)

Best of all -- they are paying me MONEY. Not a ton, but real folding money.

OK, so on Saturday, I turned 30. This is wonderful for many reasons. My late teens and early twenties blew really, really hard, and I honestly doubted at times that I would make it all the way to thirty. And yet here I am, and I'm very happy, and have a great life ( Read more... )

First, the bragging: I took the results of my first three attempts spindling to the yarn shop where I'd bought my spindle to show them off, and all the people there were in awe that I'd not only produced yarn that nice on a spindle, but that I'd done it within a week of starting. (Of course, I kept the third attempt in the skein to hide the fact ( Read more... )

I just picked up all the spinning stuff from liralen. HOLY FREAKIN CRAP. I am now up to my ears (practically literally) in fiber and roving.

There's no way around it. At some point, I'm going to need to rent or buy a wheel.

And now if you'll excuse me, I have to go PLAY! IN! WOOL!

All in all, I have to say it was a good day.

First, the lovely and esteemed liralen is sending me a bunch of her spinning stuff, for which I am deeply and profoundly grateful, as well as WICKED excited. Like an eight-year-old girl at a pony party, that's me with all this spinning stuff. It's seriously cool.

Then, the gracious and inestimable browngirl sent me a ( Read more... )