The Inconsequential Blogger

I purchased two drop spindles from a shop on Etsy and they arrived yesterday. One was a top-whorl and one was a bottom-whorl spindle. They c...

...of my purrennials is starting to sprout.

I started some seeds earlier than usual this year. I usually start seeds about six weeks before I plan to plant them outside, which means st...

I've been working on making some sock yarn with a baby alpaca fleece that I bought last summer at a fiber festival. I wanted to blend in...

Rush Limbaugh has issued a fear-of-losing-more-sponsors,-after-all,-money-talks apology to the young woman he called a slut. He also stated ...

My early sprouts are sproinging up! These are several varieties of heirloom tomatoes.

I'm saving up to buy a loom. A good used one can run anywhere from $300-$800, depending on what kind of deal you can find. I have over $...

I recently received an order of two raw Icelandic fleeces. One is white/oatmeal in color and the other is a brown/red. Icelandic sheep are ...

This post is for a person who is fixing up an old Hoosier cabinet which is just like mine . They requested a few specific pictures to help w...

Here's a little bear that I just finished knitting for my grandniece. She'll be born in March. The little scarf is made with the two...

There are different techniques you can use when plying colored yarns, and they will give you different results. I will sometimes ply the r...

Today the mail brought me my order of seeds from Seed Savers Exchange , a place to buy heirloom varieties. I bought quite a lot of seeds, do...

This is my first attempt at translating this reindeer tattoo design into a knitted article:  It's done in handspun alpaca yarn: ...

Last fall, I purchased  a white, first shearing fleece which came off of a 10-month old alpaca named, "Powdered Sugar." I finally ...

I recently got some silk to spin. I'm planning on blending some of it with part of my nice, white, first shearing alpaca fleece I purcha...

I have so much to do, I'm glad I have a whole new year to do it in! I've got fleeces to sort and wash and comb/card/possibly dye, ...

A young girl from my nice little town, blind from birth, wrote and sings this Christmas song, Night of Our Lives : Merry Christmas!

Here are some pictures of the finished texting mittens that I knitted with handspun yak-down yarn. Yak down is the fine, fluffy undercoat on...

Here is a picture of Notre Dame in Paris under a full moon and with a Christmas tree.

Here are some pictures from Paris! By Notre Dame, cooking school (an anniversary gift from my husband), and holiday decor around Montmartre.