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You never forget the first time.

Posted in Fionn, Spinning on February 8th, 2010 2 Comments »

Do you remember the first yarn you stashed? I do; I found a single skein of Paton’s Ballybrae in navy Black Forest Tweed at my (very) local LYS not too long after I first picked up the needles. It was already discontinued in 2003, so with my usual retail obsessiveness I set off [...]

A wheel, and two spindles.

Posted in Spinning on May 19th, 2009 2 Comments »

Some of you may have figured out that spinning has snuck into my life on little cat feet. I was seriously worried my brain would get rusty without the chance to learn something new, so for my 39th birthday last May, I gave myself spinning lessons at my LYS. I got it, I practiced, [...]