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The resin top-whorl spindle from Point of View Farm was the first of my Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival purchases to arrive. OK, I'll …

I had signed up for two classes at the Carolina Fiber Fest in March 2020, and it was canceled at 4:00 pm the day before it was supposed to …

Published on Linkedin as Home Ec Beats Higher Ed What does it look like to be a mask maker in April of 2020? I realized last night I …

I made 20 masks using a video how-to, and I thought I was going to go out of my mind. The method was way too fiddly and there wasn’t any way …

Math success! The yardage calculations set out in Afghan Math and More Afghan Math worked; this is the amount of yarn leftover after …

Starting Mandala Madness was painful; the center rows were too small to hold. As the work grew, it became much easier to crochet. The …

I laid out all the floss on the dining room table and sorted it by value, 1-10. I pulled out the bright white and the blue-black, leaving a …

I saw a blanket on Ravelry a year ago and dropped it into the favorites list. I didn't pay it too much attention past that; I don't crochet …

I was well into the first section of this afghan before realizing I hadn't tested yards/row. The first section is 24" on the knitting …

Last year, I started making a vintage String Art schooner from a kit a friend gave me after his wife died. I knew I wasn't going to use the …