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Monthly Archives: January 2008

February Shop Specials

Houston, we have a problem. For some reason, it just clicked recently that I have a lot of yarn arriving next week, and not enough places to stick it! Doh.
But wait, I’m thinking. Since good chunk of my yarn storage is taken up by the worsted and bulky weight yarns, I’ll just run a [...]

Exhausted, One Big Picture

I’m about to drop dead from exhaustion right now, due to the combination of lot of dye work being done very fast, not one, but three, sick Yarn Babies and 5 hours of sleep or less a night. I’m about drooling on my keyboard I’m so tired! But before I went and collapsed in [...]

DEADLINES! Eeeeeek!

It’s only because I have a deadline to meet this week! I’ve got to dye 7 or more hanks of sock yarn in under three days, two if I can. Which might not seem that bad, except that it takes me 24 hours to just get each one dyed! (The results are so worth [...]

Fireworks Sock Numero Uno

One down, second cast on! And the first one actually fits, yay.
Look, it’s the toe:

Instep side of the sock. It’s a very… ‘artistic’ sock!

Colors are a bit off in this one, but this is the top of the sock:

The pattern was essentially made up on the fly, 70 sts, toe up, on US 1’s. *K1, [...]

In Which I Prove My Brain Really IS Fried.

I am so glad it is Friday, and that Friday is done! This has been a heck of a week, and today was just the kind of day to end it. Completely and totally random.
I went to bed last night feeling crummy, the beginnings of a cold kicking in. I woke up this [...]