Summer Stripes
by Penny Nelson
March 22, 2025
Peggy just finished her latest run of beautiful kitchen towels. I've gotten them tagged and up on the website so take a look. I think they are love...
Yarn Chicken
by Penny Nelson
February 21, 2025
Yarn Chicken - that's the game you play with yourself to see if you have enough yarn left in your every decreasing ball of yarn to finish your proj...
Rainbow Pinwheels
by Penny Nelson
February 19, 2025
I just finished up a run of kitchen towels that has been a joy to weave. The very first towels I wove years and years ago used a two color pinwheel...
Old Kitchen Towels
by Penny Nelson
October 23, 2024
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...
KAL
by Penny Nelson
October 22, 2024
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 ...
Getting Ready for Texas Fleece & Fiber
by Penny Nelson
October 20, 2024
This coming weekend, October 25th to October 27th, is the Texas Fleece & Fiber Show in Kerrville, Texas. This is the extension, or continuation...
Serger
by Penny Nelson
September 8, 2024
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...
Country Mouse/City Mouse
by Penny Nelson
July 15, 2024
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 ...
Mangle
by Penny Nelson
July 11, 2024
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...
Tour de Fleece - Day 6
by Penny Nelson
July 4, 2024
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...
And it Begins!
by Penny Nelson
June 29, 2024
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...
Naked Looms
by Penny Nelson
June 14, 2024
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. ...
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