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Oh, I Nearly Forgot!

Posted on: Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 in: Crochet, Knitting, Matt, Projects

A couple weeks ago, I teased with a picture of a gauge swatch in a beautiful blue tweed yarn and may have hinted about the impending project. It’s time to come clean on that one…

That’s Knitting Pure & Simple #264, and I promise not to follow in his footsteps–I don’t see me rockin’ the [...]

Open Wide

Posted on: Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 in: Crochet, Knitting, Merino, Projects, Sock Yarn, wool

cuz I’m about to feed you a sh#t sandwich.
I used to teach Business Communications when I was a university professor, and I enjoyed the two different levels I taught (an intro course offered to all majors in the college and a second semester that was required of majors in my home department). [...]

Cookie Monster

Posted on: Monday, September 29th, 2008 in: Crochet, Knitting, Sock Yarn, Visitors, wool

What a great weekend we just wrapped up, on so many levels. Definitely one to remember, on several levels, for me. First off, the shop sponsored workshops with CookieA, designer of many beautiful socks and

fun person. That’s her reaction on Friday evening, just after arriving at ThreadBear and just after she [...]

Just A Quickie

Posted on: Friday, September 26th, 2008 in: Crochet

post…….for tonight. Not much to say that’s new, as I posted twice (YES, TWICE) yesterday. Matt is off to Grand Rapids to pick up CookieA for a weekend of workshops here at the shop. I don’t expect them back until around 10 p.m., so I’m catching up on this tonight, late, because [...]

The View From The Other Side

Posted on: Thursday, September 25th, 2008 in: Crochet, Knitting, Projects, Visitors, wool

Yup, it’s true–I did crochet before I could knit. It all goes back nearly 40 years, when my maternal grandmother taught me to crochet first (on my fingers, in the back of the family paneled station wagon, headed towards Wisconsin on vacation….turquoise blue Aunt Lydia’s Rug Yarn, thank you very much for asking), and [...]