WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. It’s been almost a month since I posted a WIP Wednesday, so I’ll try to catch up a bit. Spinning Here are the finished… Read more »
WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. Spinning I finished spinning the Hickory Dickory yarn, and plied it together. I’m not thrilled with how the colors came out, but the yarn… Read more »
WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. Spinning I finished spinning two bobbins of undyed singles last Sunday, and plied them together this week. Here’s the fiber I started… Read more »
WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. New Arrival I haven’t gotten much knitting done in the past few weeks, as my indexing load has been unusually heavy. But let… Read more »
WIP Wednesday (for “Work In Progress”) is a meme where we share our current fibery projects. It was started by Nicole @ Book-Wyrm-Knits, who also reviews books at book-wyrm-reads. Introducing: WIP Wednesdays! I’ve been thinking about including more about my knitting and spinning on the blog, and after seeing several other bloggers… Read more »
The Sunday Post is hosted by the wonderful Kimba, the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. It’s a chance to share news, recap the past week, take a look ahead, and showcase our new treasures — I mean books! Farewell, Thomas It’s been a sad week for us. Wednesday, we had to say… Read more »
Spin to Knit: The Knitter’s Guide to Making Yarn on Oct. 1, 2006 Pages: 128 Purchase: Amazon Add to Goodreads Knitters who want new worlds to conquer can reach for this guide to handspinning their own designer yarns. A rundown on equipment introduces the drop spindle, supported spindle, niddy-noddy, McMorran… Read more »
Challenges Title links go to reviews. Goodreads 2016 Reading Challenge I’m rockin’ this!!! I read 25 books in April toward my year-end goal of 180 books. I’m currently at 57% of my yearly goal, or a total of 102 books — 43 books ahead of schedule! This month’s total includes 10 ARC or review copies,… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News 400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare’s First Folio Goes Out on Tour (NPR) ‘Mein Kampf’ Enters Public Domain; Arguably, Anne Frank’s Diary May, Too… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Banned Books Week starts Sunday, and bannedbooksweek.org has ideas and resources. Also, scroll down for a bunch of banned books lists. The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip,… Read more »
