I recently had the opportunity to drop in at one of my favorite yarn shops – Yarn Barn in beautiful downtown Lawrence, Kansas. I ended up with a couple of balls of gorgeous Jojoland Melody Superwash sock yarn, in soft green and pinky-beige colors. I really like the marled yarn (plies of different colors twisted together), and it looks like… Continue Reading Odds and ends
Continue reading →When I woke up to the sound of rain on the roof, I tried to remember why I thought a spinning demonstration at the Kansas State Fair this particular day was a good idea… I packed up my wheel, wool, and knitted items and set off.Getting it all through the rain to the sheep barn was, um, interesting; but I… Continue Reading Foul weather on a Fair Day
Continue reading →There was no more putting it off… the time had come to decide from all the options available for Ithilien’s sleeves. These are the cuffs. The first decision was to make cuffs, instead of ending the sleeves (actually, beginning them) with just a hem, as the bottom of the sweater is finished. So I crunched the numbers and fudged the… Continue Reading Sleeve decisions
Continue reading →Who’d a thunk it?? My blog, for one brief shining moment, ranked at #30 on the official WordPress.com Growing Blogs list! http://botd.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/growing-blogs-813/ Of course, when you average only a handful of hits a day, it doesn’t take a very large number of visitors to make the percentage of increase look really impressive! Still, WordPress does say they have over 3… Continue Reading 15 minutes of fame
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