I am a small-scale fibre artist who lives in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. I knit many things, and I spin yarn on a top-whorl drop spindle. I also dye my own fibres using food-safe dyes. I look forward to experimenting with natural dyes soon, and also learning how to weave on a backstrap loom.

People say that it must take a lot of patience to spin, particularly on a drop spindle. For me it is the opposite. It takes a lot of patience to sit around in lines and the DMV without a spindle or knitting needles in my hands (because I do knit and spin in public).

I try to know where the fibre I am spinning or knitting with comes from, in terms of which farm or collection of farms, and preferably which kind of animal (alpaca, llama, etc.) or even which breed of sheep.

There are many conservation breeds, which only have a few thousand animals left alive, that have many positive attributes but aren’t as well-known and thus in demand as merinos. I like to support small-scale, local farmers who are raising conservation breed sheep – or at least less well known sheep – in order to do my bit to help biodiversity.