This is the oldest yarn in my stash.  Well, the oldest unknit lot of fiber that is.  This was purchased for my intended second sweater. 
A huge improvement in yarn choice than the first sweater.  It is a 60% Merino Wool / 40% Acetate tape yarn, specifically Chai by Berroco in colorway #9331.  The best way to describe the […]

Since casting off my mothers cardigan (photos to follow next week after I visit her),  I’ve been waiting.  Waiting for inspiration to strike.  Knitting swatches has been about all I the excitement I can manage to find. 
In the meantime, I’ve been asked to take a shawl and write the pattern.  It was originally created to showcase the various […]

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Llama song
My work here is done.
(I figure if I have this stuck in my head, I should share the fun.)
;)

If you could see all the thoughts spinning around inside my head, you would swear it was tornado season.  Too many things to actually type a coherent post.  But you aren’t here for the post, are you?  You’re here for the swatch with my lace addi needles.   Especially, if you are a Knight that does not Knit. 
The […]

Apparently I am willing to travel 40 miles and 1 hour.  Beth told me she had the new lace addi’s in stock.  I had to see for myself.  Fortunately, they were as nice as Beth had described.  Unfortunately I missed meeting Beth, who was away from the store to spin with her local group.  (Maybe […]

Phone rings.
Me: “Hello?”
Hubby: “You have knit night at the LYS tonight, right?”
Me: “Yes, why?”
Hubby:”Do you think they would have olive green yarn?”
Me (thinking): He does know I am going to a yarn STORE, right?
Me (outloud): “The chances are pretty good.”
Hubby: “While you are there can you buy one skein for me?  I think it will make […]

It is snowing at this moment.  A light, big flake kind of snow.  The sort of snow that encourages large mugs of hot tea or chocolate, good books, and thick wool.
 The day has been quiet and peaceful.  It is as if the snow is providing a blanket of insulation from the rest of the of […]