Happy Bloggy Birthday, Tamara! I just found you this week. That light box link is mega helpful. I am a knitter and still new to spinning. I have drop spindles and just got my spinning wheel about a week ago. There is so much to learn, and I have enjoyed reading and looking at all you have had to share with us. Hope you have another fab year! Enjoy HP7–we have!

Wanted to let you know I am now visiting this space every week, along with Jenny’s site you two have become one of my new rituals…I am enchanted by your color and name choices for the hand dyed wool you are selling at Etsy, absolutely gorgeous dyeing… I have a wee obsession with goddess lore myself and often name my finished knitted pieces after them…As a Vermonter I too am feeling especially blessed with the amount of lovely days this summer has brought, many perfect for the lovely task of solar dyeing to which I am new this year…it is particularly wonderful for me to watch the process as I am dyeing in jars and I enjoy stepping out onto my tiny deck each morning with my tea to gaze longingly at the colors seeping into the yarn…I also have a silk/merino blend spun for my next immersion which is another first for me as I have never tried dyeing silk…I look forward to next weeks comments!

Happy Blog Anniversary!!Can Stitchy enter the contest too? I love to scrap, knit, bead it and eat chocolate too! I have learned a lot about dyeing roving. It was sooo much fun – Dyeing Day. I love all your pictures and all your ideas. Love ya!

Happy Blogaversary!!!! Many more wonderful years to you! Hmmm, what have I learned in the past year. It’s all kind of a blur. Knitting-wise, I learned to knit lace (hurray) and also learned how very addictive it is. LOL Computer-wise, gosh, I’ve learned so much I don’t even know where to start. For one, after figuring out how to build a completely custom template in Blogger they went and changed to New Blogger. So I learned how to work with widgets and rebuild my template yet again.

Well, I think that this link you just posted for the lightbox may have jumped to the top of my Favorite Spincerely Moments — I’ve got instructions for one involving PVC and sheets, but this one is WAY more my speed. Thank you!

Beyond that, when (note I didn’t say “if”) I learn to spin, even though I’ve read about spinning in a bunch of different places, you’re the one who’s put me over the edge. And also, I got to know you through your blog, and that’s special too!

Happy Blogiversary!

Happy Blogiversary! I just got a light box too. Can’t wait until I get to use it!

Love the lightbox!

I just recently found you also, so I can’t say much about what I learned here in the past year. But I like your lightbox. I made one last year using just a translucent plastic container. It sure makes a lot of project photography easier! But I think I can make a lightbox that will work even better. So you’ve inspired me to try that!

Happy Blog birthday!
Love that light box, can’t wait to see the picture goodies you get now!

(creeping out of the shadows of lurkdom) I’m a long time reader but I rarely comment. Happy blogiversary!

Happy Blogiversary! I love your lightbox! It reminds me I found instructions to build one myself awhile back, but haven’t gotten to it yet. In the past year, I have learned to knit fair isle and knit and cut steeks.

Where do I begin? You inspire me and continue to amaze me with your talent, motivation, enthusiasm, and knowledge. Undoubtedly, you have added another dimension to my knitting experiences with each and every project, from deciding on yarn (to me, the best part) to completion. Your blog is my escape from the not-so-enjoyable chores of daily living.

I think itI found you via your comment about Briar Rose Fibers at Rhinebeck.

Since then I’ve just enjoyed checking in to see what you’re up to. I have definitely been intrigued by your solar and plant dying. I haven’t done any dying yet but may soon.

Oh yeah, happy blogiversary.

Wow, cool light box! That roving looks amazing. What have I learned this year? Well, I just learned how to make a $10 light box! I’m not sure if I’m that invested in my pictures to actually do it though.

Hello! As another multi-crafter (knitting, crochet, spinning, gardening, scrapbooking, childrearing, wait, I don’t think that counts as a craft) I really enjoy your site!

Happy blogversary! I’ve been enjoying your site for quite some time now, and yes I remember the brown chocolate bar theme. (I liked that theme, though for some strange reason I always seemed to crave chocolate after surfing…)

I guess my highlight as to the “what I’ve learned from you” in this past year would be all the stuff about dyeing and the various ways to ply. I’m a beginner when it comes to the art of plying, but it’s nice to be able to look at what the results can be once I have time to get going with it.

Cheers!

Happy Blogiversary! I too am a long time lurker but I really enjoy your posts. The last one with the 2 vs 3 ply yarn was fun to see results. That lightbox looks like a fun thing to try.

Happy Blogiversary! I came to your blog quite recently, from a link on Jenny’s blog, so it’s not been long enough for me to have had the opportunity to learn something here specifically. Well, actually, I’ve learnt that I should act faster when I see gorgeous merino-tencel in your shop! If I consider learning in general, I have started spinning and felting (wet- and needle-felting) in the last year, and I love it.
Best wishes for your second year of blogging; I’m looking forward to what I’ll be learning around here in the future. And best of luck also with your Etsy shop! Just like you, I’ve been talking about opening one for what seems like forever, so it feels great to see I’m not alone, and that things may finally happen after all that thinking and talking! Thanks for the inspiration!

Happy Blogiversary my dear!
It is nice to see all the comments from the silent majority. It’s fun to get commentary isn’t it?

What I have learned from your blog would be too numerous to list. You inspire me daily, you sucked me into blogging, you sucked me into knitting, I refuse to read about solar dyeing!

I love all posts, especially scrapbookery ones. Some top picks include:

- any with Hoops and Yoyo
- Purple Mock Potatoes
- sheep butts
- Hoops and Yoyo’s blue felt balls
- the Knuks contest
- ANY junior agent antics
- IHA making you a project
- the Appletini incident (hmmm, did you blog this one??? you should have if you didn’t)

Oh, I could go on and on.
Love them all.
Love you all and miss you too!

Love the lightbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Old Agent J

OH GOOD GRIEF!
How could I forget that I absolutely love your nature shots too. Especially of flowers. There was a time when the dreary rain pictures were the norm… liked those too… but LOVE all the flowers.

Oh, and your links. I love the links. They are always very informative. Like the Guardasil debate links, the literature links, the giant tomato hornworm links (hee hee hee). You my dear are a good linker.

Okay, I needed to be comment #22 also since it is my favorite number as both boys are born on that day!

I also like the people I have gotten to know through your blog. Stitchy (congratulations girl!), Knitcolio (such a sweetie! thank you for the yarn ball link too!), LFG (oh you purple mock potato Goddess you!), Spider Jenny (great name, great blog!), IHA (yes, I knew him already, but it is fun to watch his antics through the “eyes” of your blog), Junior Agents Extrodinaire (know them, love them, miss them)and a host of other regular commentators or characters that appear here. It’s so like a community.

Very nice.
Enjoyed meeting every one of them.
Glad to be kept updated on the trials and tribulations and crafting events of the IHA/Spinny household.

Love,
Me

Happy blogiversary! I don’t have a specific post to point to, but I love your technical-spinning posts, because they’re informative, interesting, and, frankly, not enough people write them! But you yourself also seem informative and interesting, which is what keeps me coming back. Congrats!

Happy Blogaversary!!!

holy moly you have a lot of comments!!!

I can’t believe its been only a year! I feel like you’ve had your blog for years and years! I love how in depth you go into all of your crafting forays, especially the pictures, you have such an eye for them. I’m not a very good photographer, so I think that means I can appreciate that trait in others.

Mostly, I’m just very glad that there’s this way of keeping in touch even when we don’t see each other for what feels like ages! (Even if it is only a week or two!)

Again, Happy blogiversary, and I’ll see you soooooon!!!

Happy Blogiversary!

Actually, I think I have won the contest, because this is a win-win day for me. I found Jenny’s blog and now yours. Happy Dance! As a frustrated spinner that needs to dump the “you-can’t-do-thats” and start with a fresh mindset.
Thanks for sharing with us!

Congratulations!
I only just recently discovered your blog and it’s beautiful. If you started out knowing nothing, then you truly have had an educational year!
I just started blogging this month and hope I’ll be able to celebrate a one year anniversary AND I sure do hope that I can learn at least a part of what you did in only one year’s time.
Intermediate knitter, beginning spinner and total newbie at blogging…

Hi there! Happy Blogiversary….
I’ve had your post on making your own Lazy Kate bookmarked (I’m a relatively new spinner – got a wheel from my bf for my birthday in June) and this weekend I was planning on stopping by Lowe’s to pick up some of the wood I need to make one of my own Kates, so I figured I’d drop by your blog and make sure I could get everything I needed…saw the contest and thought that was pretty cool. I’ll let you know how my Lazy Kate turns out next week. Thanks, as always, for sharing…

Happy blogiversary!

I’m an occasional reader who’s kind of short of internet time today, so I’m not going to comment right now on what I like about your blog. Hopefully I’ll remember to do so later.

Hello,
I found your blog through Ravelry. You are one of my new ‘neighbors’ there, and I liked the name you chose. Your blog is beautiful. I will come to visit often. Want me to help fold some laundry so you can show us the exciting things you are doing with fiber? (reference to Ravelry)

Happy Blogiversary! I’ve really enjoyed your solar/plant dyeing experiments.

Happy bloggiversary!

You were the swap partner I was assigned in the IK Spin To Knit swap. I was all good with that until I clicked over to your blog and learned about your incredible spinning skill. That gave me pause…it was tough trying to decide what to do for you since you’re the experienced spinner.

But you were totally gracious and posted pictures and stuff (and the Agents appreciated the huge bag of Kisses, so that was a good thing too…)

Btw, your Monarda (Bee Balm) is quite lovely. Mine do the same thing…

So I know I missed your Bloggiversary so happy belated. I know the contest is over but I still wanted to comment cuz thats what I do. I knew what I wanted to say before I read everyone else’s comments – and still plan to say the same thing. I was happy to see Emily’s comment and enjoyed many others but my sides are hurting after reading Croppy’s many entries! I get a huge kick out her appreciation for my purple mock potatoes! And am thrilled that she is having computer time again.

What I have learned over the past year on Spincerely’s site:

That people actually get excited and strive to be the first to make a comment on your blog. Since I’m working backwards here in getting caught up – it has been a while for me – but once I saw the fun and joined in – I totally got it. Comment are great fun and there is something wonderful about believing you are the first person to read something new that was created by Spincerely

Again Happy Belated Bloggiversary to both Spincerely, the agents, and her readers! It is a win-win!