Monthly Archives: August 2009
Progress
This morning I got up, had breakfast, and then sat down to finish plying my fourth skein efforts at the Little Gem. Lo and behold, I have managed to turn Kim‘s beautiful merino/seacell pencil roving (called ‘Brains belong inside your … Continue reading
In case of yarn avalanche, do not send rescue
Last night I went into Toronto to play with Lisa (currently undergoing a trifecta of woe), and had enough time before dinner to have an hour or two of sitting and knitting at The Purple Purl and ruminating on yarns … Continue reading
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Wooly environs
Yesterday, I went for some driving adventures around Southern Ontario with my friend Dee, who needed to drive off to take her son to and from day camp outside of town anyhow. So, we made very good use of the … Continue reading
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Spinning wheels
“That” time of year is starting to get me. The time of year when I resist the fact that August is half over, when I want to go back to June and try to be more productive than what I … Continue reading
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Oh my.
So, okay, so Knit Picks came out with new shades of their Palette fingering weight. So, okay, I might not be biggest fan of some of their other yarns, but Palette sort of owns permanent real estate in my stash, … Continue reading
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Still smaller than New Jersey
I was, admittedly, not going to do a post-Sock Summit stash enhancement post (contented as I was to simply hug my new stashlets and pet them and call them George), but then a few people prodded me about it, and … Continue reading
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“A what?”
Now that I am home, bleary-eyed, and contemplating the regular non-knitting world, and pondering what has just happened… I think it is a crying shame that so many of the Sock Summit attendees only had to travel within their own … Continue reading
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“What is valuable in the knitting world has changed.”
The final day of Sock Summit has concluded, I am now in the very slow packing phase, and have absorbed so much and met so many new people and touched so much yarn and have so many new things I … Continue reading
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“Twenty years ago there was no SSK.”
Something happened this afternoon in my class at Sock Summit, for which I am still now just grasping the magnitude, and I may need to have a stiff drinkie and a lie down before I go forward with my evening. … Continue reading
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“Their record was for 256. Their record was doomed.”
Day Two of Sock Summit is behind me now, folks, and the whirlwind is still going strong. My feet hurt, I am 99% out of touch with non-knitting non-Portland world, but I’m just continuing to tell myself that’s OK because … Continue reading
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