Spin Together Update

What a week to be in a spinning competition… Work’s been especially crazy and I have been craving more human interaction than I’m used to getting. Still trying to do my part, though! Of course, I have the money yarn, but that will only count for the plying. My spindle project is coming along, but […]

Adventures NOT at the Ren Fest: Fifth Weekend

This was the weekend for the Kaw Valley Farm Tour that I have missed for the past several years. It seemed a safe, family outing, so I was really looking forward to it. Even though it was almost completely outdoors, this was still one of those events where it probably was better just to miss […]

Adventures NOT at the Ren Fest: Fourth Weekend

This week’s post will be a little light. Full disclosure, I had a (thankfully short) panic attack on Saturday, so not as much got done as I would have liked. I did get to spin on another friends’ deck, though. Even better, these friends have a puppy! This is Fritz! He’s a mutt of some […]

Adventures NOT at the Ren Fest: Third Weekend

This year, Worldwide Spin in Public Day snuck up on me. I normally don’t have to plan for it, ’cause I’m always spinning out at Faire. Of course, that wasn’t an option this year. I’m not too mad about that, though. It always felt like cheating a bit, since the spirit of the holiday is […]

Adventures NOT at the Ren Fest: Second Weekend

The No-Faire Spinning Tour is still going strong! My first stop Saturday was my friends’, Becca and Andrew, patio in Midtown. It was a lovely day for it, and it was a prime location to head to Yarn Social for the fall LYS Day! I’m counting this as a silver lining, even though there would […]

Adventures NOT at the Ren Fest: First Weekend

I know I’ve shared with you my plan to find silver linings with the Kansas City Renaissance Festival being cancelled, but it’s gotten way better in practice. When I first shared my disappointment in the cancelled season, a couple of my bubble friends decided if we couldn’t go to the Ren Fest, we’d make our […]

Social DisSpinning?

It will probably come as no surprise that the Kansas City Renaissance Festival has been cancelled this year. While I am disappointed, a disappointment that hasn’t gotten any less difficult to deal with the more life events I lose to COVID, I completely understand. It was the right call to make. Like every other disappointment, […]

Social DisKnitting: Day 140

I know it’s been a minute, but I still feel like I don’t have much to show for these past two weeks. My family and I took our annual trip to the Lake of the Ozarks (where we locked ourselves in our friends’ lake house), I’m going back into the office, and I had about […]

Happy Distaff Day!

I recently found out about a tradition, from back in ye olde times, where women had to finish all of their spinning projects before Christmas (or hide in-progress projects), lest they be cursed by spirits with bad luck in the new year. They wouldn’t come back to their spindles or wheels until after the Feast […]

Adventures at the Ren Fest 2019: Final Weekend

And another season comes to a close! This long weekend, I met: A woman who started crying in the booth because the prices were “unreasonable.” Another woman who walked by my demo, pointing at me, saying “That is a massive pain in the ass.” A man, who came up to the very modern Spinolution Echo […]