Sun Valley Fibers Giveaway
I don't want to make anyone else jealous, but I think I might possibly have the coolest job ever. Visiting fiber festivals is market research, I get to indulge my bossy tendencies write patterns, and I spend most of my days at home in my pajamas in the company of the Kitten Overlords. And if that weren't enough, every now and then a yarn company gets in touch and asks if I might possibly like to see some of their yarn (yes) and maybe even share some of it with you guys (also yes). It's pretty darn cool. Today I'd [...]
Entranced
I swear it was supposed to be a swatch. A quick, simple little swatch to see if I liked the way that stitch and that yarn played together. Turns out, I do. So now the swatch is just about to reach cowl length (though admitedly, I like the sort of cowls that are just short scarves held on with a button...feels more efficient than making a giant scarf and just leaving it dangling in the breeze). And I have plans for a hat to match. And I may possibly have ordered one more skein from the UK (all I can [...]
Strappy
So the straps were absolutely positively the way to go. The straps, in fact, quite make the slipper. Allow me to demonstrate. Awfully cute, no? How about one more, this time from the front. (Erm, and if this looks suspiciously like two left feet, that's because it is. My display feet are all lefties.) I'm wondering how I could have ever doubted the inherent wisdom of straps. They make the slippers stay on perfectly, and they increase the cuteness factor (already alarmingly high) significantly. Swinging the strap all the way down to the heel was the simplest tweak imaginable, but [...]
Decisive
The very day I showed you The Tattoo Coloring Book and confessed my plans to make use of its lovely images for a fit of napkin making, I happened to find myself in a store that sells embroidery stuff. Funny how that happens. Let me pause for a moment and emphasize just how many colors this stuff comes in. Enough colors that my simple plan (grab a dozen or so colors that work well together, it will only take a moment) suddenly seemed daunting. I started to feel that little prickle I get when confronted with too many choices. The [...]
Signs
If this recent trip had a theme, it would have to be embracing the unexpected. The trip itself came up on short notice, and it took a wee bit of finagling to make it practical for me to come along. But we sorted it out. As a result, we went to the water, obtained lovely yarn, launched a new embroidery obsession, visited dear friends, discovered new drinks, and had two of the best meals ever (seriously, Gracie's and T. W. Food, go if you have the chance). That's an awful lot of delightful things to manage on a short-notice trip. [...]
Making up for lost time
Despite the previous rocky start, slipper the second is now well underway. In fact, by the time you read this, it may well be done (not to draw back the curtain on the glamorous world of knit blogging too much, but I've been known to take advantage of the afternoon sunlight to take a picture, write a blog post to go with the picture in the evening, and schedule it to go up the next morning). I continue to be enamored of them. They are just so amazingly tidy and orderly. Everything flows very nicely, if I do say so [...]
Unexpected Development
I'm accustomed to falling prey to random fits of yarn lust. That's pretty normal at this point. But my final purchase of the trip was something rather more unexpected. I bought a coloring book. More specifically, I bought The Tattoo Coloring Book, and it is astonishingly awesome. I highly recommend clicking on the picture to go see it in its full glory. I'll wait. Now, this sort of behavior isn't without precedent. I have a handy little collection of coloring books (and have since college) plus a giant bucket of colored pencils, and I turn to them in times of [...]
Hypnotic
So Wednesday's trip to Webs was lovely and totally met my yarn acquisition needs for the week month near future. I had absolutely no intention of seeking out more yarn on the trip. But somehow, completely without my conscious intervention, this happened. I just sort of fell in and couldn't pull myself out without bringing a pair of them home with me. I'm sure you understand. The way the color is put on the yarn is fabulous...it's not this stretch is blue and this stretch is purple and this stretch is green. Rather, each bit of yarn has all the [...]
In which the lighting is bad, but the yarn is good
Wednesday I got up early, dropped The Boy off at that pesky work thing, and ventured west. A few hours later, I found myself in front of Webs. Now, I've shopped on Webs' site and listened to their podcast for years. One of my first thoughts upon realizing we were headed to Boston was hmmm, that's not far from Webs. I was rather looking forward to going, and I was not disappointed. Now, that's not to say it was quite like I expected. I think I assumed it was something like the world's biggest, coziest yarn store with a [...]
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