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A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell)  once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're...

Another roller coaster ride of a week here! It all started with an onslaught of messages why I wasn’t at the Bendigo show at first, which lead me down the path of scrolling down social media to show support for my friends at the show, which led me to discover something that made me scream: someone on the other side of the world had used screenshots of my products from my shop to sell her own (?) products …. I was and still am flabbergasted by it and her subsequent responses after I confronted her. I will not get into...

How to stay fluffy facing your fears…spinning yarn, knitting and crocheting of course or creating something on a weaving loom. If all else fails: stab some fluff if you really want to and felt something amazing!

it is always exciting to introduce something new, something that I’ve never offered before. Today is exciting!  I usually am drawn to, what some may call “weird” combinations of fibres together, like agave with sheep and angora, or even stainless steel and animal fibres, but this time, I was drawn to one breed with a multitude of colour variations. Combining various colour variations within one top can be challenging, but not if you prepare all the coloured fleeces separately and then “gill” them together. The process of gilling the fibres happens after all the fibres have been carded and processed...