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Last May I reported on some old, well-used kitchen towels my daughter-in-law returned to me for mending. I cut off the tattered hems, serged the ed...

The Knit A-Long or KAL is an interesting construct. The idea is we all start on the same knitting project at the same time and work on it together ...

This coming weekend, October 25th to October 27th, is the Texas Fleece & Fiber Show in Kerrville, Texas. This is the extension, or continuation...

I have a love/hate relationship with my serger. It's a magnificent tool to bind the edges of my kitchen towels after they come off the loom. When i...

Last October we moved from our 12 acres in Cat Spring, TX back to Katy, TX. We lived in Katy from 1986 to 1990 and then started moving farther and ...

As a child, I learned to iron on a mangle. It lived in our basement and was usually heaped with clean clothes waiting to be folded. I loved that ma...

Happy 4th of July and Day 6 of the Tour de Fleece. I've plied up all of my singles and my Schacht Lady Bug is quietly waiting for me to spin up som...

The Tour de France begins today in Florence, Italy. It is the biggest and most popular bicycle race of the year. Most of the route is within France...

As a weaver, you are never supposed to let your loom sit naked overnight. At least that's the story I was told back when I was a beginning weaver. ...

The latest run of kitchen towels is off the loom!  This is a totally different pattern than I've ever done before so it was fun to watch it grow. ...

Our friend Crys Keiser has decided to cull her heard of spinning wheels and all of her wheels are wonderful. This is an Ashford Joy that needs to g...

Inertia is everywhere and in everything and as such, it affects our daily lives. Like many other things, it's a much larger problem for some than f...