The Inconsequential Blogger

I've finished spinning the yarn for my daughter's bridal shawl. I've got 845 yards, 4.3 ounces of two-ply merino/silk lacewe...

My handmade clay spindle whorl broke : ( I made a new one out of that polymer clay that you bake in the oven. I've never used it bef...

I've been concentrating on getting the yarn spun for my daughter's bridal shawl. It's two-ply, one of merino and one of silk. I...

My husband took this picture on Christmas. The moon was full and there was a ring around it. The ring is called a lunar halo, and the two br...

Here's a wooden spindle shaft with a handmade clay whorl, fired in a fire. It's modeled after really old types of spindles. I got it...

Soon to be crabapple jelly!

Here's a short video clip I shot at the Stahlstown Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown, PA yesterday. It was a fun little festival an...

Back in 2013 I purchased a fleece that I was going to use just for myself. I've been busy and happy working with a lot of other fleeces...

So, three years ago I started growing flax in the hopes of processing it into linen yarn and then making something with it. This is somethi...

 I planted my flax a few weeks ago by strewing the seeds. I had 13 ounces of seeds, 5 oz. of my own that I saved from last year's crop,...

 I have finally begun knitting with my homegrown, handspun linen - the next stage in my flax-to-linen experiment/project. If you wish to se...

When this book first came out, the few things I heard about it made me not want to read it, and I thought I never would. I thought it was ...

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...