at home with Lara's wheels, spindles, looms & dye pots
The end of 2024 got mighty disorienting. This post is to wave a hello as February starts with things falling into place. Happy New Year! We have pivoted from the mail being suspended to today’s expected trade endgame. Here in Ontario that feels like a lot. The holidays were pulled-off. It was as someone that […]
Read MoreLate last week, Laura of Twin Oaks Farm sent out an early wool clip signal via her Instagram. This was not a difficult decision for me. I have been following their spinners’ flock located in Guelph, Ontario for a few years. This is from August 2021 when I chose a lamb’s fleece that is a […]
Read MoreWriting last week’s post did Wake-Up the Blogging Joy. It also had a very good side effect: I could not put those Jenkins Aegean spindles down! Seeing the life of that new post has been exciting. I can see that it has reached some of you. First of all, a very Happy Thanksgiving to USian […]
Read MoreIt’s been a very long while. Rather than explaining mid-age spiritual journeys, gut wrenches of so many varieties or anything else to feed language learning models, I will skip to the small post that I am burning to make. Hi, again! These are the sister Aegean spindles by Ed Jenkins. This August the shaft of […]
Read MoreHello in a rare moment! It is exciting to have an open door, enough rest & the desire to write all aligned. As I quickly texted my friend before sitting with the images for this post: Alleluia! As they were leaving home for the glorious outing, T realized and said, “You are shooing us out!” Yep, bye! It’s been […]
Read MoreA little over a month ago we said goodbye to our cat, Melvin. He was a first cat for 2 lifelong dog people – some of you may remember those days 11 years ago. Humans & cat were in mutual bewilderment. Many of my online ‘pocket’ friends & hometown knitters (yay, Sarah!) taught me how […]
Read MoreHow does Ontario’s own Stone Spindle Farm do alpaca? The short answer is: superbly. In order of my growing admiration since 2021: full marks for the farm’s name; Beth’s warm Instagram account; the raw locks; the rolags & finally, the mill-prepped alpaca top. The raw locks They had me at featuring spindles in a farm […]
Read MoreThis morning I read creator, Lutze Segu’s post that begins with this soaring salutation (in caption; image is my own): The post by Lutze Segu, the Social Justice Doula (here on Patreon) is more open & fair-to-self than I might manage. These are very different spaces but I deeply felt transparency offered about a shift […]
Read MoreFinally, a break! But for a single appointment in a few days we have the week off together. Last month was full of highs (someone is double digits!) and the lows of this new wave in the pandemic. Just about everything that is heightened can be summed up as: There I was sipping my coffee […]
Read Moreleverage in the gaps In a consultation, yesterday, I was asked, “How is your energy now?” We were over the hour, and the answer was in effect that I had already “opened up my schedule.” Which is to say, you reduce one thing a smidge to juggle in the other. This has been my plan […]
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