Yes, TNNA was fun…..so much so that it’s taken me nearly two weeks to get back with you, my gentle readers. Let’s do a full-tilt recap in 20 minutes or less (as that’s about how much time I have before needing to dart out the door to head to the shop).
First off, it was [...]
Yes, I actually finish things
That’s my version of the “Spring Baby Cardigan” by Kristen TenDyke (patterns available at the shop, of course). I made our model out of Classic Elite Classic Silk (the yarn used in the design), as it falls in the perfect gauge of five sts/inch. Sized from newborn to [...]
Sure, there’s been tons going on in my life, and some of it even falls into the “fiber arts” part of my world. I’m always knitting something (mostly shop models), but my knitting time has been curtailed by my gym time. As chronicled over at my personal blog, I joined a health club [...]
Where did the past month go? I’ll be back in a couple days (Tuesday at the latest) to catch up a little bit, but there’s been much progress and stuff going on in my life (most of the personal stuff is chronicled over here on my personal blog), but there’s also been fiber and [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]