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Daily Archives: February 4th, 2008

Another tatted thing

04-Feb-08

In mid-January, I tackled some silk hankies:

which I bought in December at Pam’s store. Hankies are single silkworm cocoons that have been prepped and “spread out” into squares that are about the same size and shape as handkerchiefs.
I spun them on my drop spindle, into this lovely laceweight yarn:

There’s all of 2 grams there, but [...]

Kennedy Space Center and other stuff

04-Feb-08

As Johnny mentioned in the last post, we’ve been exploring SPACE the past two weeks. We went to the Kennedy Space Center twice to see the exhibits and the shuttle and learn a bit about the space program.

There’s a full-scale orbiter to explore at the KSC, so we did….

A very large area in the orbiter [...]