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It has been a cool spring. I would complain, but the air conditioning in my car doesn't work right now. The heat does. Therefore, cool weather is good. Being comfortable in my car will be important, as there are several events coming up in the next few weeks and even in a few months. This Sunday afternoon, 22 April 2018, Debbie Held will be teaching a class called "Love Your Blending Board" at Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance. I have a beautiful Whispering Woodturner blending board (see photograph, above) I bought a couple years ago at the last Spring Fling. I have used it a little bit. I know I am not using it to its full potential. You can imagine my delight when I saw this class on the schedule. Debbie is a regular contributor to Spin-Off magazine. And she is an evangelist for blending boards. She does lots and lots of things on blending boards that many of us would do instead on a drum carder. That isn't to say a blending board can replace a drum carder. Th...

Update from the Controlled Chaos

It has been a very busy month around here, and there's more coming. The recent past: out-of-state trip for Mom's 75th birthday visit from 15-year-old nephew including ropes course, go karts, rafting, and indoor sky diving trip to Gen Con stops at Fiber Frenzy and the Woolery eclipse in Sweetwater, Tennessee The impending future: Dragon*Con Georgia FiberFest Mensa Peachtreat 42 Game night at my house Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair Cuddly Hubby will be home for Dragon*Con. Also on the upside, the fall issue of Spin Off magazine just arrived at the friendly local yarn shops. And please look down through the table of contents to page 80. I wrote the article about eleven months ago, so this has been lurking for awhile. I had a great time writing the article and working with the friendly staff at Spin Off . This is definitely a champagne, chocolate, and flowers sort of accomplishment. If it weren't that we'll be busy with Dragon*Con, I would have a ...