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Spinning nirvana

Although I do have a wheel (an Ashford Traveler) and use it occasionally, I really am just a dabbler when it comes to spinning my own yarn. This could not have been more apparent than it was this weekend, during my teaching jaunt at Abby Franquemont’s Stringtopia Spring String Fling. I was surrounded by some world-class spinners and spinning teachers,…

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A quick hello from historic Lebanon, Ohio

It was a long drive–about 9 hours in all, even without stopping for more than five minutes at a time–but now that I have arrived in Lebanon, Ohio, I am charmed.  I mean, how can you not love a town that has a public library that looks like this?   I am staying at the Golden Lamb, a historic inn…

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