Loot, Part 2
Apparently I also got an extra and unexpected goodie when I bought my yarn. The bag I got at Romni has proven to be the most coveted cat toy in the land. All three kittens have been in, on, and under it at various points since I've been home. Right now Douglas seems to have conquered it and declared it his personal fort. He has absolutely no intention of vacating this seat of power. Move it at your own peril.
Loot
A bit of careful planning (taking into account geography, lunch plans, your recommendations, and other scheduled events) led to the conclusion that there was time to visit two yarn stores. I knew I wanted to revisit Romni. I'd been there back in 2007 when I was a very new knitter, and to be frank I'd found the whole thing more than a little overwhelming. I wanted to go back and see if it felt different now that I had a bit better grounding. I had been to Lettuce Knit before, but hadn't visited Purple Purl, so I decided I'd [...]
Just What the Doctor Ordered
From about 3pm on Friday, until about 9am today, I didn't use a computer. I didn't check my email, I didn't check ravelry, I didn't check the blog. None of it. And it was wonderful. I have a feeling I'm going to have to do this more often. I may even have to declare the weekends as a no-computer time. Of course this particular internet hiatus was because we were headed off to Toronto. We probably can't quite manage to do that every weekend, but I think I could just pop the batteries out of my mouse and keyboard and [...]
Multi-task
Upon hearing of a planned trip to the Slaughter Innocent Woodland Creatures store, I asked The Boy to look for something for me. It's not a store I generally frequent myself (gee, could you guess), but I knew they were likely the best place to find a wee little gizmo I wanted. It's something called a line counter. These things are marketed as 'Fishing Accessories,' but they are clearly 'Yarn Accessories.' The theory is that you thread your fishing line yarn through that little slot on the left and pull it through and the little counter on the right spools [...]
Flee
So I'm fleeing the country on short notice once again. Well, compared to previous flights, this one is actually with a huge amount of notice...whole days in fact. The summarized version is that I'll be in Toronto this Saturday. It's been a shockingly long time since I've been to Toronto, the last time was way back in November 2007. Now in 2007 I was a very new knitter. How new? Well, consulting my ravelry notes, I see that I took my very first sock ever with me on that trip in 2007. Even back then I knew that Toronto had [...]
Mystery Yarn
I have a mystery yarn. Not a mystery yarn as in 'I lost or threw away the tag, sure in the knowledge that I would remember the info' (note to self, you will not remember). No, a different sort of mystery. I totally have the tag. But the tag does not seem to match up with any of the listings I can find online. The brand is the Great Adirondack Yarn Company. Them I can find. It's the base that's tricky. The tag lists it as "ROSA 3/5." It also says that it's 100% merino superwash, that it's 232 yards [...]
One Down
See, I told you it was making progress. I'm rather taken with these. What do you think, do they work for you too? The color here is a tiny bit off, but it's snowing outside and I don't feel like either putting on my coat or going outside in my jammies. You'll have to just imagine it a bit more orange and a bit less pink. The mate to this one is on the needles now, but is making slow progress. It's not the pattern's fault though. Not at all. The pattern is surprisingly close to autopilot knitting (despite what [...]
Oh the Weather Outside was Frightful…
But my hat was so delightful! See, I told you the hat was much cuter on. And warm...very very warm. I'm fairly sure I could stand outside in that bluster and blow for just about forever and my head would not be cold. (Please pardon the blowing hair, it really was kind of stormy outside. We're standing in the driveway out of the main force of it because otherwise the tassel sticks straight out in the wind. Speaking of tassel, it's really the tassel that makes the whole thing, it's ridiculously fun.) Everyone should immediately go get their very own [...]
Happy New Year
I hope you all had just the sort of New Year's Eve festivities that you wanted (we watched Ghostbusters...what can I say, we're old, that's what we do). As promised, the first of the Knitter's Curiosity Cabinet patterns is available. I'm working with the wonderful Wendee of Hazel Knits on her January knit along. All the details (including how you can download the Linaria bipartita Sock pattern free during the month of January) are over on the knit along thread. As for my own knitting, I'm ready to do the toe on the first of the orange spiky socks. Next [...]
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