This is a day of workshops I’ve needed and waited for all my spinning life, but I know it’s coming right now at the right time. Sure, I learned and practiced the techniques in each class, but amazingly, both classes ended up teaching me more than I had expected and exactly what I needed to…

It was not a happy meeting today, the skin of my hand and the sharp metal teeth of my electric drum carder. However, it was a fantastic meeting this morning with a lovely fellow fibre fanatic who inspired me to unleash said drum carder. But rather than obsessing about my scraped hand, let’s obsess about…

Years and years ago, a fellow blogger, Freecia, was inspired to buy me something at a local fibre fair and send it to me as a gift. This was completely and totally out of the blue. She wrote me this lovely note and sent it along with a bit of the most divinely smooth and…

Soon soon soon. We’ll be re-opening SweetGeorgia Yarns online in the next few weeks after I return from Whistler. My office is starting to look a lot like it once did… piled high with brightly coloured yarns and fibres… tags hanging delicately off the end of each skein. I’m excited to show you what I’ve…

And other days, I am saved by the beauty in things like this: Depth and light. It’s 100g of 20/2 cultivated silk. First dyed lightly in weld. Then dyed in marigold. And finally overdyed in madder. It’s absolutely gorgeous in the skein. And I am grateful for the light it brings into my life. When…

I’ve been making warps. Many many warps. Mostly because I have a lot of yarn lying around… naturally dyed, undyed, synthetically dyed, commercially dyed… omg, that’s a lot of yarn. Rather than using handpainted yarn throughout the whole warp, I’ve taken to mixing it up with a bunch of other solid coloured yarns. One skein…

Vancouver is seriously lacking sufficient light to take photos right now. These were shot at 6400 iso. 6400. I can’t even believe it. Diamond Fantasy Shawl The Diamond Fantasy Shawl is done and blocked. Knit out of the Silk Lamb Lace yarn, I followed Sivia’s instructions to the letter — the shawl is 10 repeats…

There’s a coolness in Vancouver that is beyond crisp now. Yep, it’s downright chilly today. Feeling the need to have warm, comfy and cushy Zara sweater NOW. I’m making progress, yes, I am… Yummy diamond detail… Knit in wan pisu! (one-piece) In light of the fact that I seem to have zero spare time these…

I need a vacation. Yeah, I know this is technically the end of summer vacation but… but… [Astor](http://www.knittingAstor.com) is hosting a [knitting retreat](http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?Group_ID=3799) this Fall at [Hollyhock](http://www.hollyhock.ca/) on Cortes Island. Hollyhock is an educational retreat centre that hosts programs, camps, and workshops about everything from Tibetan Buddhism to Sea Kayaking to Poetry to Ashtanga Yoga……

Nothing says “it’s time to finish washing your fleece” like an upcoming fleece sale. That’s right. This Saturday, June 10, there will be a fleece sale in Langley. I was really considering driving down and buying a nice local fleece — maybe something mohair — but then thought, “hey, maybe I should finish using up…

I went to Fibre Fest and didn’t buy anything. Well actually, I did. I bought Michelle and Jo each a ["Topknot" from Aurelia Wool & Weaving](http://www.aureliawool.com/topknots.htm) to see if it would push them over the edge and get them spinning. Heh. They both attended the drop spindle demo and then we spent much of the…