A little while back I came across this very nice web site - FaveCrafts.com.  For any crafter, whether it be needle crafts, paper crafts, card making, quilting, sewing, whatever your liking, they have something there for you.  Membership is free and...

Right before Xmas I gathered up the two boxes I had set up in the bank and library to collect hats, scarves and mittens/gloves for "Hats For The Homeless," a charity organization run out of Hackensack, N.J..  I ended up with one very large box of goods...

I sat and knit up two swatches of my grey homepsun, pretty much guessing what might work best with each yarn.  My goal, to knit both the DK and the Worsted swatch identically.  It worked. Using US#8 needles on the DK yarn, I knit up 25 stitches. ...

I have completed the spinning and plying of my 3 ply alpaca/wool blend yarn.  I have a total of 1248 yards.  But, do you remember that I said I am still struggling with being consistent?  I have 666 yards of yarn that measure 12 wpi, so fall into the...

A 5 PM, on this 10th day of January, 2010, I FINALLY finished the spinning of the grey alpaca. I have divided it equally onto to 2 bobbins for plying later, when the black wool is ready to join it. Now I have to get the bag of black wool and start...