Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gorgeous Girl, Gorgeous Man, handspun yarn, Knitting, spinning, spinning wheel on October 30, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Gorgeous Man is back in the country. He arrived very late Monday night. This week has been about getting life back in order and playing with my new spinning wheel.
It came in a big box, that was opened for inspection at the airport by SARS.
That would be the South African Revenue Service. There was an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daily life in South Africa on October 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
So, Gorgeous Man is currently in Portland, Maine. He left on Monday and will be back late Monday night. I’ve been telling Gorgeous Girl that Daddy will be home Tuesday since she will be asleep when he gets home. Thankfully a friend is picking him up from the airport so I don’t need to get [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Just a quick post to share some current works in progress.
Some spinning.
Merino I dyed myself. The yellow varies between that colour and a brilliant orange. The plan is to Navajo-ply this (three plied on itself in a chain) for socks.
I frogged the handspun juno, because the yarn kept telling me it wanted to be a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daily life in South Africa on August 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A worm farmer that is.
A few weeks ago Gorgeous Man and I bought a worm farm. I love it! I’ve been wanting a worm farm for a number of years and we were thrilled to find a guy that makes them locally.
Essentially it is three tubs on top of each other with a tap in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Do you ever feel like life is running a hundred metre sprint and you are stuck on a treadmill frantically trying to keep up?
That’s been me for the last few weeks, nothing major going on (except for the car deciding to die while I was halfway through an intersection going up a hill – it’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Tuesday is my designated spinning day. I spun this.
This is the pink and white section of the roving.
I also measured up this.
Post washing it comes to 295 grams and 488 metres. (My online convertors tells me that this is 10.425 ounces and 533.6 yards). It’s a three-ply.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Finished objects, Free Radicals, Gorgeous Girl, Quilting, scrapbooking on July 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I found some time (mostly late at night when Gorgeous Girl was asleep) to do some crafty things this weekend.
My quilting group, the Free Radicals, is making blocks for each of the members. My little trip to Australia has put me way behind, so I’m scrambling to catch up. I’m so slow at making blocks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Finished objects, Gorgeous Girl, Gorgeous Man, handspun yarn, scrapbooking, spinning, travel on July 22, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Thanks for the welcome back comments. I’ve been too tired and exhausted to reply to you all, unfortunately. I have to admit that I felt very, very low when we first arrived back in South Africa. The jetlag, combined with a bad cold and really not wanting to leave Australia all contributed.
I’m feeling much better [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Just a quick post to say we are back from Australia.
We had a very lovely time, and much to our relief Gorgeous Girl travelled extremely well.
There was some fabric shopping, and a ball of sock yarn also managed to make its way into the bag I also bought a quilt kit, so I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This last week has been insanely busy. At work we have had the American member of our team in Cape Town for the last two weeks which has been lovely. To take advantage of having the entire team on the same continent we have had meetings and that has meant that instead of working from [...]
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