Catherine Friend
Catherine Friend

The Check’s in the Mail

Thanks everyone for loving our yarn, and buying it! We’ve shipped out about 1/3 of it, but the rest is languishing on our dining room table, waiting for ransom checks to set it free. 🙂 So if you attached your name to a skein or two, here’s what you owe. Please please please send us […]

YARN for SALE!

Finally! Our yarn spent 10 months at the fiber mill (they had many business and personal problems, some tragic.) Then it took me a few months to dye the skeins with London Nelson. Then it took another few weeks to reskein the skeins (got tangled because they weren’t tied well at the troubled mill) with […]

Beef Anyone?

It’s time! We’re once again offering packages of great-tasting, humanely-raised beef for those readers who live in Minnesota. (NOTE ADDED 11/19. We’ve almost sold all the packages. Lordy, that was fast. I need to take inventory tomorrow for a better estimate of the number of packages we actually have. If we still have some left, […]

From White to Wonderful—Dyeing yarn!

So how does a color-obsessed writer/farmer turn her yarn into explosions of color? Come with me to London’s house, the woman who’s been holding my hand throughout this process. She’s fearless. “Let’s try this!” “That might work!” “Sounds good!” If I were doing this on my own, I’d overthink everything. I’d lay out swatches and […]