Survived Round 1

We made it home safe and sound from our tour of The Four Corners.  There was much amazing scenery, some crazy stories to add to the family repertoire of traveling stories, and of course yarn.  Not as much knitting as I would like but lace knitting and windy roads do not mix if you would like to keep [...]

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Have Yarn, Will Travel

As April has left us all behind and May marches across the threshold, I brace myself with my bags packed, knitting needles firmly in hand and yarn coming out of every spare nook and cranny I can stuff it in.  May, month of wandering nomad, I am ready you, bring it on!  Thank goodness most [...]

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Therapy for Sock Yarn

Remember these:

The socks that my dear beloved sister, Las, dared to compare to willie warmers!  Yes, you read correctly.  My sister compared handknitted socks knitted from handpainted luxury yarn to an acrylic willie warmer.  As you can imagine this has scarred these socks for life.  They have had nothing but problems since their day of [...]

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It’s Done! It’s Done

The extra skein of Handmaiden Tussah Silk arrived Thursday in the mail.  To my utter relief, it appears to be the same dye batch.  (One can never be 100% sure since Handmaiden never puts color names or dye lot numbers on their yarns.) If I could get yarn this easily to save my arse, something [...]

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