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Trepidation
It has been a while since I blogged because I’ve been preoccupied with getting the yarn business up and running. We are proud to announce that we now have yarn up for sale, at http://www.etsy.com/shop/hommespunyarns. I expected to feel jubilant and excited once the yarn was finally up for sale, but I must say I feel very…
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Votes are in, yarn is getting spun
After much deliberation and helpful input from you good people, we have settled on a HommeSpun Yarns as Trevor’s business name. Since we’ve returned from Washington he’s been putting in more and more hours at the wheel, producing yarn at the rate of about three skeins every two days. As the weather has been ever…
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Two Kinds of Weeding, Many Kinds of Weeds
We returned from vacation to find many plants thriving in our garden, including some that we actually planted ourselves! Our dear friend Anne babysat the garden for us while we were gone, something she knows much more about than we do. Yesterday we spent a joyful, drizzly afternoon weeding, which I’ve discovered is one of…
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Economy, or How We Got Here
In a few days we will be visiting the place where Trevor learned to spin, Holden Village, Washington (www.holdenvillage.org). Holden Village is a retreat center in a very remote area of the Cascade Mountains. We moved to Holden in 2008, at the beginning of the recession, with our five-week-old newborn. We had more or less…
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spinning business
Another one of our major projects for the summer: starting a business. As you can see in the picture, Trevor spins wool into yarn, which we hope to start selling by the middle of the summer. The wool he is currently spinning is a chemically died maroon color that he is using as his practice/warm-up…
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Summer projects
My husband and I are venturing on several new projects this summer. I decided it might be a good idea to blog for at least the next three months, as a way of tracking the progress of these projects. Today, we planted a garden. The first one we’ve ever planted together. We did our best…
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Angie Gustafson 