All About Silk Spinning Retreat

I got to attend a spinning retreat hosted by my friends Christine (Treasure Goddess) and Teri (Fiberterian) in the before times, and I was really missing it over the years. So when they decided to offer another, I signed up as quick as I could! This one was all about silk, which was a little […]

First Spindle Bingo

I am participating in the Spindle Bingo 2025, hosted by Batty Fibers, Pacific Coaster Fibres, and a fellow Yarn Social spinner Jess, on Instagram. Happy to share that in the first month of the challenge, I got my first bingo! Pass it On I got to share the Park and Draft technique with a new […]

Toy and Miniature Museum

To celebrate Father’s Day coming up, I wanted to share a recent trip I took with my dad to The National Museum of Toy and Miniatures! This amazing museum is steps away from my office, and we had an opportunity for Staff Appreciation Week to bring our family for a free visit. Perks of working […]

Kerry Woollen Mills

Taking my usual gift-crafting break until the new year! Wishing you and yours a great finish for 2023. Our last stop on our amazing tour of Ireland was Killarney, which was also stunning. Beautiful mountains, our hotel (that Walt Disney stayed at!) was on a lake and had a bunch of lovely touristy activities to […]

Burgundy Heirloom Cotton

“Some real Little House on the Prairie Shit.” I got a text from my friend Becca asking if I wanted some cotton to spin. This was curious because Becca does not spin, and I was totally unsure where she would have found some. “I guess my neighbor is growing some with no intention of using […]

Return to Adventures at the Ren Fest

It was pretty unexpected (at least for me!), but Marci returned to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival in its guest artist booth for all of September! She’s sharing the booth with Marcia of Alpacas at Orchard Hill Farm (Reba’s owner!), so there’s a ton of fibery goodness out there this year. Since my September was […]

Tour De Fleece 2023

I’m very proud to say that I PR’ed this Tour! I kept the goal managable, since that’s just my theme this summer (Still managed to craft every day in July for Practical Magic!). My only real goal was to finish plying my hodge-podge Ply Away samples yarn from 2018 (…). My reach goal was to […]

Read my Article in Ply Magazine!

Super exciting update today! Your girl is published again! Ply is my favorite spinning magazine (because the creator Jacey used to be a local and created a nationally renowned spinning conference right here in Kansas City), so I’ve submitted many times to write for it. I finally got an assignment. Even better, it ended up […]

ThanksKnitting 2022

But I guess it’s ThanksCarding this year! Taking advantage of the lovely weather in Kansas City this morning to card a bit more cotton before it’s cold again. It keeps me well out of the way of the chefs! Since I have to keep most of what I’m working on for the next six or […]

Ply Away 2022

Yep, being able to do the same events I did prepandemic is still magical. The local spinning show Ply Away was one that I noticeably missed, since it was supposed to happen in April of 2020, at the height of our lockdown. However, for all I missed it that year, this time it was barely […]