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So Many Balls In The Air!

Posted on: Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 in: Crochet, Knitting, Merino, Sock Yarn, TNNA, wool

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 [...]

A Few FOs

Posted on: Saturday, April 24th, 2010 in: Crochet, Knitting, Projects

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 [...]

Vexing Hexing

Posted on: Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 in: Crochet, Dyeing, Knitting, Projects, wool

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 [...]

Ooops!

Posted on: Sunday, April 18th, 2010 in: Crochet, Dyeing, Knitting, Projects, wool

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 [...]

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 [...]