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Is there a presentation in your future?

The Prairie Spinner Posted on June 24, 2013 by spinnerApril 12, 2020

If so, you might consider using Prezi! Prezi is a service that offers free and paid options for creating online presentations. This is not your mother’s PowerPoint! While there are similarities, Prezi is more dynamic and less linear in nature than PowerPoint and its clones. Prezi is not without its limitations, though… you can create a pdf to use as … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Tips, Various Other Stuff | Tagged presentation, tech tips, technology, Wool to Wearable | Leave a reply

Wooly field trip

The Prairie Spinner Posted on October 8, 2011 by spinnerApril 12, 2020

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 →

Posted in Handspun, Spinning, Tech Tips, Travel | Tagged fleece, friends, Kansas State Fair, Sugar Bunny Boulevard, tour, wool | 3 Replies

Fun with QR codes

The Prairie Spinner Posted on July 31, 2011 by spinnerApril 12, 2020

You’ve probably seen them around lately – those square (most often) black-and-white thingies on advertisements and products?  Well, here’s one – It’s called a QR code.  QR stands for “quick response”, which isn’t actually too helpful in explaining anything.  It’s really just a code meant to be read by a smart phone that will send you directly to a website … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Tips, Various Other Stuff | Tagged QR codes, technology | 1 Reply

Ithilien Brocade chart

The Prairie Spinner Posted on October 15, 2009 by spinnerApril 12, 2020

I finally have the chart finished, in what I hope will be its final version. The original version is about a year and a half old, and this one is actually very similar; the main difference is in the details of the chart itself.  That turned out to be more interesting than I expected – trying to figure out how … Continue reading →

Posted in Downloads, My Projects, Tech Tips | Tagged chart, download, file conversion, Ithilien Brocade Jacket, stitch pattern | 13 Replies

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