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Such Is The Life

Posted on: Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 in: Bamboo, Dogs, Knitting, Matt, Merino, Projects, Sock Yarn

Another Tuesday, another day off. And a great one it has been so far today! Oh, come on now, Sabrina……….

it wasn’t that spooky to see us briefly this afternoon! And besides, it wasn’t that long of a visit!
I’ll start with the end, so to speak, showing off yet another Tuesday evening meal. [...]

Ups and Downs

Posted on: Monday, December 22nd, 2008 in: Knitting, Matt, Projects, wool

Progress continues on Kyler’s Kardigan, but it is definitely a “two steps forward, one step back” sort of project. Here’s what it looked like a few days ago

about a week ago. Both sleeves finished, and time to move onto the body. I’ve done about eight inches of the body (including the start [...]

The Rep Parade

Posted on: Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 in: Visitors, wool

It’s been an overly-busy week of deliveries, classes, and sales rep visits at the shop. I apologize for not posting for the past few days, but we’ve had reps here all day on Thursday (Cascade and more), Friday (Skacel, Louet, Claudia, and more), and Monday (Westminster Fibers, Aslan Trends, Prism, and more). Not [...]

In And Out

Posted on: Thursday, December 11th, 2008 in: Knitting, Projects, wool

Not much time this morning to provide much of a post, as we have a 10 a.m. appointment with a sales rep (still more looking at spring/summer 2009 goods) and I have this post and one at our “New Arrivals” blog for the shop to accomplish as well. But you’re here to keep me [...]

Kyler’s Kontinues

Posted on: Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 in: Knitting, wool

Monday saw a tiny bit of forward progress on Kyler’s Kardigan

as I’m working down the sleeve right now. It looks good, in my opinion

With Tuesday (today) being a day off, I hope to get some major progress made, after a busy morning and early afternoon. Goodness knows I got a got a good [...]

Update Time!

Posted on: Sunday, December 7th, 2008 in: Knitting, Projects, wool

Before showing pictures, a little bit of “housekeeping”……..Sue (no last name, no e-mail address) asked, in a comment on the 25th of November, for me to send a link to a freebie from the newsletter that she misplaced. If you’re still reading, send me an e-mail and I’m glad to do so. I [...]

Little Things Mean A Lot

Posted on: Friday, December 5th, 2008 in: Dogs, Knitting, Projects, wool

OK, well I had to tear out the entire Kyler’s Kardigan that I was rushing through, blindly, because it was wrong. See, even I make DEADLY mistakes on my projects (not that I feel that I’m perfect, but there are folks in my classes and/or other patrons of the shop that are simply amazed [...]

Thursday Update

Posted on: Thursday, December 4th, 2008 in: Knitting, Projects, wool

Gotta show a picture of my progress so far, as of Thursday evening.

Yup–all torn out. Got to work on sleeve #1 and found that I really liked the fabric I was making, but had a sneaky suspicion that it might be too firm. Measured said fabric and found out it was bang on [...]

Update and Off I Go

Posted on: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 in: Knitting, Merino, Projects, wool

Just a quick update tonight, as I haven’t got much new to say and just a little bit of new to show. I made some serious progress on Kyler’s Kardigan overnight on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning. But NOTHING happened during the day because it’s newsletter day, of course. So here’s where [...]

Peaceful Snow

Posted on: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 in: Knitting, Merino, Projects, Sock Yarn, wool

The dark of night is illuminated right now, thanks to this

the view out our back door, and of course, the very photogenic River Walk

As I’ve often mentioned here, I love snow, and the Sunday night/Monday all day/Tuesday morning storm did not disappoint. While we didn’t get the 9+” we were promised (we probably saw [...]