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On my last day in Chicago, I had some non-training time, so I went out to find yarn.
I visited Loopy Yarns. They had a really great selection - not only a wide array of yarns, but plenty of colors and fibers and textures, too. They had the new Manos Silk/Wool Blend, and I [...]
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Well, mostly, when bloggers continually forget to take pictures of their works in progress, I suppose.
That’s when they make bad mock-ups of stuff in Paint and share it with their readers.
Which color do you like better for this sweater? It’s Jess’ Gansey, available online but part of Interweave Knit’s Winter [...]
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It’s my day off, my apartment could use a good vacuuming, there is laundry to be folded, but instead I am spending the day taking pictures of yarn, then going to a museum and out to dinner with a friend. And I have no complaints.
Here’s my haul.
My first purchase was this lovely wool/silk roving from [...]
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I’m a crazy person. Even though I have a few knitting deadlines coming up (Dan’s Aran, which I started in April, is supposed to be done by Thanksgiving - his scarf, by Christmas. Not to mention the holiday knitting I have planned…), I decided I want to finish the Cascade Wave Sweater by Rhinebeck. Do [...]
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After losing my beloved Koigu Elegant Gauntlets over two years ago, I’ve finally taken it upon myself to knit another pair.
Lindsey, modeling them in September of 2004. I left them on the train while commuting to my internship in March of 2005 - along with my first felted Bottom’s Up Bucket Hat, with a pin [...]
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That blue blob of yarn is a big ball of Blue Sky Alpaca Dyed Cotton that I decided I wanted to roll into a ball from a hank on my commute Sunday morning. It got tangled and knotted (of course) and instead of taking the normal ten minutes it would have taken at home, [...]
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I’ve avoided signing up for the plethora of secret pal swaps that float around the knitting blog world for a few years - I did Secret Pal 2? 3? three years ago, and I got burned. I did have a Secret Pal Angel come in towards the end, but it always left a bad [...]
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I went to Boston last weekend for my best friend’s engagement party. I got to visit with my favorite cat:
Who was pretending not to know who I was.
There were cheese plates
And purple cauliflower
And I don’t have any pictures of the actual party because I’m [...]
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I’m sorry that all I talk about in this blog is Paton’s Soy Wool Stripes. But I haven’t been knitting very much lately - partly because Dan’s sweater is all seed stitch sleeves all the time and partly because I’ve been reading.
This is what it looks like. Sad [...]
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but look!
New SWS colors! Woohoo! Pretty! I want them all. I’m going to have to start stalking the yarn section of my local craft store tomorrow.
I think it would be awesome to try over-dying the Natural Slate - ’cause of the graduations of greys as the base, I wonder if I could [...]
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