Tag: handspinning

  • I sold my Ashford Joy this spring. For a variety of reasons, I believed I needed to move on from my interest in visually exploring spinning fibre. Previously, I had gifted one of my Turkish spindles to a lovely, masterful spinner in Europe. And, I bought more printmaking ink – which I will admit, has…

  • Friendship (not counting family) and the term has woven its way in and out of my thoughts the last few years. Thinking about old and not so old friendships that have ended, I’ve accepted and made peace with. The nostalgia for old friendships I continue – distantly – because we are different or geographically apart…

  • I do love the smell of ink and was planning on some more printmaking over the holidays. Thanks to the extreme cold weather (-32ºC here in Calgary) and my determination to get some fresh air, another smell caught my attention. The smell of pure lanolin took me on a completely different tinkering session. I purchased…