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Today I have been working with a beautiful Icelandic fleece I got at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. I didn't get it at the fleece...

  I had a great time at the 2015 Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival over the past weekend. I scored some really lovely fleeces, saw lots of...

  When processing flax, most of it becomes tow flax - the shorter fibers that stay behind in the hackles when hackling the flax. So you h...

When I first started growing flax, I bought my flax-for-linen seeds from The Hermitage . They sell Marylin variety of seeds from the Netherl...

  I finally got all of my 2014 flax crop broken, scutched and hackled. I was late in planting last year, and therefore late in harvesting...

  Our library has acquired a 3-D printer. They held a class the other day on how to design things and submit them to the printer. Printed...

I don't like it when people tell me I under-value my own work because I price it too low. They tell me, "A handspun, hand-dyed skei...

For Christmas my husband gave me a couple of bundles of cotton stems from a florist. How exciting! I've spun prepared cotton, but I...

At the Great Lakes Fiber Show this past summer, I bought two bags of alpaca seconds (the part of the fleece that's not first quality)....

  Inspired by a yarn featured in Rebecca Burgess' book on natural dye plants called, Harvesting Color ,  I dyed up some wool with thr...

 Rebecca Burgess's book, Harvesting Color , is one of my favorite dye books. Because of this book, I've added pokeberries, bidens f...

This year's flax crop is retting in an inflatable kiddie pool that I got on clearance this same time last year. Last year's cro...

  My neighbors had an enormous, beautiful box elder tree in their front yard. Recently, with heavy rains, a large limb came down. A large...

  Last year at the end of the gardening season, before the first frost killed off my Japanese indigo crop, I harvested a bunch of stalks ...

Rose of Par Kluhnd has a new map at the front of the book. The original was my own, but the new one is professionally done and looks terrif...

 Qiviut is the warm, soft undercoat of the musk ox. It keeps the musk ox warm in its native habitat of the arctic regions in places such as...

  The milkweed plant produces a fiber that can be used by spinners. Fibers from hemp, flax, dogbane, milkweed and nettle have been used f...