Sock Summit Part V, In Which Yarn is Obtained
I always feel a bit of a need to apologize for the yarn that I buy. I feel like I should justify it or explain it or excuse it. But really, that's silly. This is my business, and it requires yarn. So I bought some. I have a suspicion you might like yarn too, so I thought I'd share it with you. And just so you know, Barry is not generally allowed on the table, but I was feeling guilty about having been gone, so I couldn't bear to shoo him down. The picture gets alarmingly big if you click [...]
Book Yarn, Part VI
School work is chugging along at a respectable clip. I'm a bit more than half way done with the project, and a bit less than half way done with the available time. As long as this proportion keeps up, I can stave off panic. I'm even managing to get the occasional bit of sleep and maintain socially acceptable levels of personal hygiene. So since I have a minute, and since I'm feeling the need to at least see yarn even if I can't currently play with yarn, I thought I'd swing by with another bit of book yarn. On the [...]
Book Yarn, Part V
Look at me, all alive and more or less lucid. The giant project is still giant, but it has been divided into (ever so slightly more) reasonable pieces, and I have a plan. Having a plan is key. It helps you explain what went wrong when you find yourself in a back alley in Ecuador with a live chicken under one arm, a book of Greek philosophy under the other, and a dead flashlight clutched between your teeth. If you hadn't had a plan that would just be confusing. If you'd had a plan at one point, you've at least [...]
Yarn Report
Perhaps not surprisingly, we somehow managed to slip into a few yarn stores on our trip this past weekend. Imagine that. Shocking I know. Our first stop was the Cultured Purl in Erie, PA (what, it was on the way...more or less). It was the first time I had seen Sweet Georgia yarns in a store. Luckily, I have quite a bit of SG sitting around here, so I was able to grab something new. I picked up two skeins of Filigran by Zitron in what seems to be collor 1603 (such an evocative name). This is a single ply [...]
Fat Sock Yarns
Alrighty, as promised, a list of a few of my favorite fat sock yarns. Now it's important to note, these are not the only good fat sock yarns out there. I'm sure there are others, and I'm always looking for more. So, with no further ado, and in no particular order, some of my favorites. Nichole by Schaefer: I love this yarn with an unreasonable passion. It's thick and smooshy, but still fits in shoes (at least my shoes, your shoes may vary). It has a bit of nylon so it lasts forever. I've had some socks in this for [...]
Not A Sock
I think the sock gods are angry at me for my recent hat dalliance. I keep overhearing murmurs that sound like 'three good years of faithful friendship' and 'ungrateful upstart' and 'feckless dilettante.' All of which is my way of saying that take two from yesterday may also be a bit too variegated. It's been set aside while I ponder its fate. The secret sock is going well (smashingly well really), so I do have some hope that the sock gods haven't completely cast me out for my inconstant ways. It could just be an attempt to torment me though [...]
Polling the Collective
Apparently the action shot didn't quite cut it and folks want to see the top of The Boy's hat too. I'm happy to oblige. One hat, all tidy and finished! I think the next hat will be for me (having gotten some of my mistakes out of the way on my early victims friends and family). I think it's time to explore the realms of the slightly poufy hat. I've decided the watch cap style doesn't suit my face and the poufy hat has the potential to look reasonably non-dorky on me. Now this is actually where you guys come [...]
Present
I got myself a present. I've wanted to make socks with handspun for ages. Alas, my spinning isn't anywhere near up to that standard. Luckily, other people do have this talent, and some of them will even allow me to buy the lovely things they make. This is from Bockstark Knits. It's just unimaginably fabulous. I love it. She's got other yarn on her etsy site, and it's all drop dead gorgeous. I almost didn't want to tell you about it lest you buy all of her goodies and don't leave any for me. But it looks like she's going [...]
Unintended Restraint
The plan was to just get whatever I wanted. I really don't buy much yarn, I use what I buy (and the accountant swears it's a business expense), and yarn is a better souvenir than a postcard. I intended to indulge. Apparently giving yourself permission to buy it all ahead of time is some sort of counter-intuitive way to insure self restraint. We only visited two yarn stores. The first was Have A Yarn in Mahone Bay. There I got the Hand Maiden Casbah (over there on the far left). I've been a fan of Casbah for a long time. [...]
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