Author Archives: whoneedsgauge

Earlier this past week (Monday to be exact) I took a class about spinning on a wheel. It was a one-day class, and we did a little bit of everything. We learned about fiber, washed and dyed some, hand carded, drum carded, and Viking carded small bits of fiber, and learned how to spin. IContinue reading “A Spinning and A Stabbing”

I had an epiphany today. A lot of knitters out there (including me) have at least at one time or another wished they knit faster. It would be great if you could finish more projects, or get to more of the items in your queue. Believe me, I have lots of things I want toContinue reading “Too All Slow Knitters”

“Please supply me with local lamb. It should be delivered straight to my door, sans irradiation, and not frozen. Only fresh lamb. To go in my vegetarian baked beans. I helped get this blog started, put a lot of effort into making it work right, so it is time it started to work for me.”Continue reading “Request from Veggie Husband*”

Our trip to CO was great! The baby traveled very well, only minimal crying on the way back as the plane came in to land. She slept through the whole flight out! We had a good time. We did archery, rode a zip line, hiked, rode mnt bikes, ate, talked, laughed, and had a greatContinue reading “For Purple Mountains Majesty”

I don’t get it. If I go to the store, I take my own bags. That way, I’m not wasting plastic. However if, I’m a bit too slow in pointing out that I have my own bag, they might put it in a bag first. And what happens if this occurs? They take the itemsContinue reading “It's more than a mindset, people!”

In a few days we leave for vacation in CO, to visit our family reunion we have every 5 years. While at the reunion we have an auction to raise money to compensate the family that puts the reunion together and organizes everything. So I am attempting to make some washcloths to auction off. It’sContinue reading “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled TdF Knitting”

I just wanted to share the pretty veggies that went into making my pretty stir-fry last night! Looks like some good eating!

So yesterday was the team time trial (TTT) of the Tour. The group over on Ravelry decided to do their own version of the TTT, by knitting for an hour, calculate your hourly stitch rate, and then averaging the top five from the team. In order to get in my best showing, I decided toContinue reading “Team Time Trials”

Today I watched a few seconds of the tour, and did not do any knitting. Instead I was busy buying fabric for kitchen curtains that Husband#1 has demanded, and fed the baby. I did some cooking last week though, enough that it sounds interesting, so here goes. On Monday I had made some rice, thenContinue reading “No Progress Today”

de France, that is. I’m working on gaining my polka-dot jersey this year, which means I will be attempting to wrangle my UFO’s into completion. Today I started with my stripy baby pants, which I would like her to wear before she grows out of them (I still have some time, but she grows fast!)Continue reading “So Beings the Tour”