I love the new WordPress. Well, it’s not really new, but it’s new enough to me. It’s so… spiffy.
I also love my first pair of Fetchings. I’ve finished knitting them, and am waiting for them to dry after giving them a good rinse. (Mostly because I unknowingly sat on one for quite a while while [...]
We’ve been moving. Halfway across the country. Day three of the driving, a kind Raveler lets me know that the shopping cart is malfunctioning. Oh boy.
We’ve only had brief chances to connect to the internet. I don’t have ANY of the backup files for the shop on the laptop. All of those are on my [...]
This was my living room the day before the movers arrived.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t fit it all into the footlocker. The new bulky and worsteds had to be wrapped up in a plastic bag and packed. The new lace weight, the bamboo and cotton yarns are happily wrapped up and locked away in the footlocker, however. [...]
Sat down and swatched the new lace weight, to get a feel for what needle size to use. Decided to see how it looked on US 3’s.
Not too shabby! Those are Six inch needles, Knit Picks, getting about 7 sts per inch. I have to admit that I was a bit worried the yarn would [...]
Have spent the past two days dyeing non-stop. Seventy plus hanks of yarn dyed. Yes, seventy. Seven-zero, 70. If you count the past four days, the total is just over 90.
Really and truly, that is a lot of yarn. And a lot of work. And a lot of dye.
Exhaustion aside, I’ve loved every minute of [...]