First item of knitting note: my co-worker C went to Ireland for a week, and brought back gifts for several us that covered for her while she was out, and she brought me yarn! It’s the best purple ever. Right now, I’m just having fun looking at it. Second item of knitting note: remember how […]
An assortment of random pictures from the Common Ground Fair. It was great to get back there, after a two year break. The weather was incredibly gorgeous (maybe even a bit too hot), and the food was as fabulous as always. I was remarkably restrained, and managed to come out with only one skein of
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We had my family Christmas on Monday, and since this about half a knitting blog, I’ve got to share the gift that warmed my knitterly soul. My father and C got me a sampler of handspun wool from Darthia Farm. Not only is it handspun, it’s also naturally dyed. They specialize in indigo dying, and
I’m not done with my Sockdown September socks yet, and this is why. I had my ball winder out on Thursday to rewind some sock yarn scraps I was sending out, and in a fit of what I now know to be stunning naivete, I decided it was time to finally wind the Malabrigo sock
I’m back from a rather whirl wind trip Downeast for the weekend. The main reason for the trip was so that my father and I could attend a workshop at the Woodlawn Museum where we learned to make our own painted canvas floorclothes. Since I have pretty much no native artist ability, I chose to
My new swift works! I spent a lovely, leisurely time winding my Three Irish Girls Carys Blue Faced Leicester yarn, which is practically lace weight it’s so skinny, and I didn’t feel the need to tear my hair out once. I’m repressing a serious urge to take all of my stashed skeined yarn and wind
My ball winder came today!!! And I promptly found out the pin on my swift is warped, and won’t go in, so the swift is currently useless. Still, in my excitement, I had to try the ball winder out, and as you can see from above, it works beautifully, even if I did have to
Christmas is finally over. (Since my mother went to visit my sister in CA, we waited until she got back to finish off presents.) I got a swift! And enough gift certificates to order a ball winder when I go to my class at Knit Wit tomorrow! And what’s even better is that Anna at
My Sundara Artist’s Choice Yarn Collection arrived today. I’d gotten the mixed palette, figuring that was probably the best way to score some blue, as well as the warmer tones I like. I figured I’d get two colors that I really liked, and one I could trade for something else. I got better than that.
Yesterday, not being much of a hordes of insane shoppers fan, and with the BF working, I decided to head into town to see Twilight. Of that, I’ll only say that I’m about fifteen years too old to be able to sit through that movie with a completely straight face. That being said, I did