These days, lanolin may not be the only thing in wool that makes your skin soft, and wearing silver doesn’t just mean jewelry! Some people will remember predictions about ‘clothes of the future’ that would never need to be laundered because they shed dirt and wrinkles. In fact, the 1951 movie “The Man in the White Suit” explored the unintended… Continue Reading High-Tech Textiles
Continue reading →“Retiring Yellow Springs Police Chief Jaw Goatee seems to have saved up big for his swan song, as the results of a three-year sting operation were revealed yesterday with the successful break up and neutralization of a local yarn bombing cell.” Wow! Read the rest of the story! 😉
Continue reading →Things have been pretty exciting around our family lately! Our newest grandson arrived in a hurry, without any complications, and went home with mom the next day. Fortunately, she had just packed for the hospital the day before, even though she expected to have to wait a week or more. Of course, babies are notorious for not paying attention to… Continue Reading Sock and Stocking
Continue reading →Shortly after the Kansas State Fair, I got to do something I’d been thinking about for a long time… I went with a bunch of spinning and weaving friends to tour Mid-States Wool Growers Cooperative. This came awfully close to sensory overload for us fiber types! Here are a couple of views of what we saw on entering the warehouse… Continue Reading Wooly field trip
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