I got a copy of The Natural Knitter: How to Choose, Use, and Knit Natural Fibers from Alpaka to Yak” by Barbara Albright in the mail last week, so I thought I’d write a review as I hadn’t seen one in the blogs yet. “The Natural Knitter” is a comprehensive tome on knitting with natural […]
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Stash Enhancement Philosophy
To soothe my bruised ego I went to Three Wishes this weekend to buy some goodies. I meant to buy yarn that was on sale, but none of it was speaking to me quite like the spinning fiber. I ended up buying some Wasatch Watercolors rovings, one a blend of purples, black and a hint […]
TNNA Post #3: Coming Home and the recovery knitting
Something that should have been in yesterday’s post, but I forgot. In the exhibit hall there in the Conjoined Creations booth there was a familiar site! (apologies for the craptastic photo) They had sold a lot of their soysilk laceweight yarn (Pastimes, the hand painted version and Pastimes, Too, the solid version) using Icarus as […]
Gifties and a wee peek
Isela tagged me, so here is the New Years Meme: What is the first thing you did in the New Year… Kissed C long and hard and then danced. What is the first thing you ate in the New Year…. A sandwich? Not sure… it was probably consumed at 4 in the am, so I’m […]
Heaven all wrapped up in a hank!
So my plans to start Ariann were thwarted by the arrival of the yarn for BP1…. but how could I be upset when the yarn is THIS. This yarn is handdyed Bamboo Laceweight in the Mulberry colorway from PureKnits. I have not worked with bamboo in the past, so while it will take some research […]
Weekend Report and FO
For navel gazing, click on the cut. For the knitting content, here you go: Apologies for the crap photo… not a lot of light yet. Plus Dark Gray socks are notoriously hard to photograph. Anyway, these are Gift socks for a good friend. He has proven himself a worthy recipient of handknits (one half of […]
Haberdashary and Chocolate: or why I love Europe and want to expatriate.
I cannot express my delight at reading Jane’s post this morning about Haberdashery. The picture she paints of the domestic life where one’s major concern of the day is to find the right “knicker elastic” (I love British terminology for stuff!) or the right color of darning thread is so appealing to me! I think […]
Woot! Stuff!
Dis over at A Little Loopy (love you girls!) posted a link to The Loopy Ewe and I went strolling on over because Dis mentioned my 2 favorite 4 letter words – SOCK YARN! I’ve been dying to try some Fleece Artist Sock yarn and so I bought myself a skein in the beautiful Mahogany […]
So I took an unexpected leave of absence….
… and I’m back. It was a bad week, and I didn’t feel like blogging negative things, so I just didn’t blog. But now I’m here and I’ve finished (but not blocked) the Black Pearl Yarns Cashmere pieces. You can see a really boring photo of them all folded up here. But instead of dwelling […]
Tidying up a bit….
In an effort to clean up things that I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about, here’s my purge! There’s some excitement and some acquisitions and some plain old every day stuff too 🙂 To start off with, I know this happened a long time ago (like… a month ago), but better late than never, […]
