Trampled by Geese

Trampled by Geese is a reminder to myself to look at the positive side of life and to endeavour to only write about things that inspire me rather than focus on what is negative in the world. Kirkegaard once wrote, “Being trampled by geese is a slow way of dying, but being eaten to death by envy and greed is even slower and more painful”.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Saori for 3 years old

I have been teaching this little girl how to spin. Her parents are members of a regular group who come for dinner every couple of months. N...

Friday, October 29, 2010

Pocket Monsters are hot

I don't know why, but I'm totally enamoured with these little pocket monsters . They are not very big and you sew a little sack of...

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

My house stinks of duck poo

My house stinks of duck poo...but it's just temporary. Late this summer, very late in fact, two of my ducks each hatched out a clutch of...

Monday, October 25, 2010

Over a pound of wild yarn

I have several large spinning projects planed for the winter. My goal to reduce my fleece collection to yarn has me combing and spinning up ...

Saturday, October 23, 2010

First time for hand towels

Is there anything I should know about weaving hand towels? There is some 4/8 cot for warp and some boucle for weft. I plan to make a 2/2 tw...

2 socks in 1

I really am a sucker for new knitting techniques. And to be honest, there is nothing quite so much fun for me than to try them with my very...

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Saori

I went to a workshop this weekend. It is the first time in about two years that I've been well enough to spend a whole day out and abou...

Monday, October 11, 2010

Morning

Better news this morning. I have the same number of ducks as I did when I went to bed. Maybe the raccoons have finally found somewhere els...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

On Noses

Aside from the fact that they are killing my friends, what I hate most about raccoons is just how human they are. Dexterous hands, intellige...

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sunset

There was the most brilliant sunset tonight: gone now. For a brief moment, the sky was was burnt orange.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

eek!

I consider myself to be a fairly tough bird. I'm not afraid of black bear and can handle a cougar well enough. I'm not squeamish w...

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

My new friend

For some reason this is the month for people to sell their antique spinning wheels. I've never seen a wheel this cheep before, so I had...

something new in the house.

More about this later.

Sunday, August 01, 2010

Dew

I had a dream the other night. I was wondering in an enormous herb garden, full of vibrant, flowering plants, just as the sun was starting ...

Twist collective fall 2010

It surprised me to discover that the Twist Collective is two years old now. Between The Twist Collective, Knitty and Ravelry , a knitter c...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tatting Tea Tuesday, um Wednesday, um... I tatted, here's a photo.

On the advice of some very wise tatters , I tried another sample of the Tatted Mask . I'm much happier with how it is coming out. This i...

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Tour de Fleece 2010 - The End

This is the first time I have compleated the Tour de Fleece . To be honest, I didn't think I would do it. But I had loads of support f...

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Tour de Fleece 2010 - loose ends

I've been tidying up loose ends with my spinning I plied and blocked the rest of my sock yarn and photographed it on a bed of recently w...

Friday, July 23, 2010

Tour de Fleece 2010 - 2 days left

I didn't get my sock yarn finished yesterday as planed. But that's okay. Here is a photo of the roving, the singles on the bobbin ...

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Tour de Fleece 2010 - sock yarn

I finished the first half of the Shetland fibre, kindly donated to be my Waterloo Wools as my Tour de Fleece prize. It's Navajo ply and...

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