Quick Reminder
Just popping in with a quick reminder that tomorrow is the last day to enter the giveaway for some of Suzan's lovely yarn. I'll be back Wednesday with a winner and the next installment in my trip.
Later that Night
After a full day of dyeing, you might think we'd have had enough fun. Nope. There was more to come that night. We started by dyeing (or perhaps painting is a more accurate word) silk scarves with Dye-Na-Flow paints. The process was unreasonably entertaining. It felt sort of like craft [...]
The Three Rs, Part One
The word that comes to mind for day one has to be rowdy. I mean it in the nicest possible way, but there's just no way around it. The students at the retreat were divided up into 3 groups and each group rotated through the three instructors in a different [...]
Patterns and Yarn and Pictures Oh My
Alrighty, after much delay (we're pretending it's so I could take the socks far away for a photo shoot, not because I was lazy) the pattern for Peregrinate is out. I had great fun with these. They came with me on my trip to DC for Savor and on my [...]
Quite Alright, Thank You
One of the most enjoyable things about the retreat was that everyone staying at the Inn was there for the same thing. It was unexpectedly liberating. You knew that no one would think it odd that you were carrying around a spinning wheel or sitting on the porch knitting or [...]
Drippy
I know how to pack a suitcase. I really do. I have lots of experience with it. I've packed delicate easter eggs, I've packed antique distaffs, I've packed 12 bottles of booze in 2 tiny suitcases. I have never had anything break. Not one thing. Not jam jars, not plates, [...]
Nothing to See Here
I took advantage of getting in a day early to go exploring yesterday. I more or less managed to conduct myself like a grown up. I got where I was going without getting remarkably lost, I kept myself fed and hydrated, I did not come to the attention of the [...]
A Wee Excursion
I'm packing (the suitcase sort of packing, not the illicit weaponry sort). It's not just regular trip packing. I'm actually pretty darn good at that. It's knitting trip packing. Somehow this is ever so much more complicated. Especially in this case, as there is dyeing and spinning paraphanallia in addition [...]
Not Actually Embarrassing
I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm not even saying it's good. I am, however, saying I don't find it overwhelmingly embarrassing. It is demonstrably yarn. Even someone who didn't spend much time interacting with yarn would likely identify it as such. Funky, exuberantly-textured, oddly-colored yarn -- but yarn none the [...]
Summer Knitting Sale
In an effort do debunk the notion that knitting is only for the cold weather months (pardon my northern hemisphere bias, I know it's not hot everywhere right now), and in a fairly shameless attempt to help have a bit more cash on hand when I get to the silk [...]
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