At the end of February, David Smith wrote: Enjoyed your blog. Where do you have your alpacas? I have 6 alpacas here in Huntsville. Hope to see you in next weekend at the show. I will be showing one or my alapacas. He is referring to the the South… more »

A number of years ago, at a fiber show, I saw a handspinner who had tied all her leftover single-ply yarns together and plied them to make a skein of odds and ends yarn. She said the technique was really popular. I recall thinking it had a lot of potenti… more »

It's too cold to do anything outside. Ok, so I'm two years into Alabama winters and already I've turned into a weather wimp. By Alabama standards, it is too cold to do anything outside, and we've had one day that was pretty cold even by Wisconsin standar… more »

I have been spinning. I really enjoy spinning -- so much that sometimes after a long day at the computer -- my new day job -- I don't feel like blogging. I just spin. And the next day, I'm working on all these intense problems at the day job and when I g… more »

For the past almost a week, I've been working on finishing up a project last summer. I've been spinning up the remaining Mocha Swirl blend. This is a blend I created two or three years ago, but I've never worked with more than a sample. This blen… more »