Monthly Archives: January 2013

This week I wanted to look at the weaving that people have done with JMF. I haven’t woven myself, but I an enamored of what other people create on their looms!

Blendab1 wove the following two scarves using JMF hand-dyed farm yarn.

Mababer wove this on her Harp loom. The gray yarn is Findley. I love the subtle, grounded color she created.

sheepyme wove this “Lady of Shawlette” using Findley. She wrote in her comments notes that it was a saved “project gone wrong.” Sounds like there’s a good story behind that!

My favorite piece of JMF yarn weaving is DebbiRYarn’s Henderson Tartan. It is just gorgeous! All but the green yarn is Findley.

Debbi had this to say about JMF yarn: “Zephyr has always been a weaver’s stand-by. It was a weaving yarn before it was a knitting yarn. However, I like the Findley as well or better for weaving.” She’s hoping that her boss Tammy, of Yarnivore in San Antonio, TX will carry some more colors. How about it, Tammy? Debbi said that she’d be weaving with more Findley and I want to see what else she creates!

There is a dearth of JMF weaving patterns on Ravelry! I would love to see more! So, what have YOU woven with JMF?

Last year, I blogged about cleaning out my handbag and discovering that I had (by actual count) 20 lip balm in my everyday purse. This number did not include the various tubes and stashed in coat pockets or around my house.

Since then, I have discovered that I’m like this with other things too. Have you ever noticed that there are specific things that you just always think you might be out of, so you buy another on, just in case? The classic example of this for me is baking soda/baking powder. If I am planning to do any baking and I’m at the grocery store, I will spend a couple of minutes wondering if I have fresh baking soda or powder at home, and invariably I will decide that it’s better to be safe than sorry and purchase another one of each, just in case. And this is why I currently have three boxes of baking soda and SIX cans of baking powder in my pantry even as I type this.

Windshield wiper fluid. Every time I find myself in an auto parts store or a gas station with a display, I buy a bottle of windshield wiper fluid thinking I should probably have some in the garage. Except I already have six gallons of the stuff.

Flash drives. These are always impulse-bought at Office Depot while I’m standing in the checkout line because, hey!, you can never have too many flash drives, right? Wrong! This technology will be obsolete before I ever need to purchase another one. (I do have a one flash drive on my key chain that I would give up for love or money, cause it’s come in handy loads of times. This is the one I carry everywhere: LaCie iamakey v2 8 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive )

Extension cords. I do not need to buy another extension cord ever again in my entire life. Indoor, outdoor or otherwise. The same goes for power strips and those adaptor things let you plug three prong cords into two prong outlets.

I want to be clear here that I’m not hoarding any of these things. I have zero attachment to any of them. They are just things that I tend to forget about having already. Am I crazy or do y’all do this too?