Alternate titles: “Mud Mud Mud” or “The Stash Grows Ever Larger” Hi there folks! Believe it or not, I did make it to MD Sheep and Wool this year. TheEnabler and I headed to MD to visit AwesomeE and her fam, as well as my family. We ended up with… Read More »MD Sheep and Wool
It’s day three of a heat wave in the land of no A/C, with daytime temps in the mid-90s/mid-30s and at night we don’t reach our low of 70/20-ish until around 4am. I am shutting up the house by 9am each day, and kitties don’t get more than 5min on… Read More »Blarg… so hot
In 2020 I signed up for Undercover Otter’s Clan of Igor club. This left me with lots of yummy Undercover Otter yarns, but I also received little goodies each month of various types, from gummy worms to rainbow pens. One of those goodies was a little progress keeper in the… Read More »Might have gotten carried away
So, I must confess… we’ve had a couple visits from the delivery people this week. The first was to deliver some yarn I’d ordered from a shop in Berlin, Wollen Berlin. This is one of the shops I visited in Berlin what seems like ages and ages ago (hmm… probably… Read More »Can You Have Too Much Orange?
Just a quick post tonight before I hop on our Friday night family Zoom call: I’ve picked my “Oppositional” top back up and I’ve finished the central blue/green reverse stockinette section. I did some short rows and some gentle decreases towards the waist after the bust – not super form… Read More »Friday Flash Post
On Saturday, the last two months of my Clan of Igor subscription from Undercover Otter arrived. They were dyed and shipped together due to some challenges in getting the yarn sourced for November – it was going to be late. Thanks pandemic. Anyway, as usual, I realized I hadn’t shown… Read More »A Year of Igors and Otters
I am happy to report that my Knit Stars 5.0 purchases, aka “all my 2020 Yarn Budget” arrived safely. Even better? Customs had no trouble calculating what I owed so they could deliver it straight to me instead of requiring that I go to the customs office. Slightly awkward? I… Read More »Some quick updates
Last weekend I did a little strategic stash augmenting. First, I ordered a rainbow braid of Shetland wool from The Caledonian Wool Co. The shop is owned by Jam, an awesome person I met last year at Shetland Wool Week. Her shop opened just weeks later in Fort Williams. Funnily…… Read More »Paint Box
I finished my WestKnits “Clawed” shawl about a week ago. It was definitely an excellent project to work while integrating a kitten into the household. All the following made it easy to put down quickly if a kitten was getting himself into trouble, whether knitting related or other trouble. simple… Read More »A good kitten project
My Arequita Tunic is FINISHED! It’s currently having it’s bath and I’ll lay it out flat to dry as soon as I am done with this post. So ok… there’s still blocking to complete. And then trimming the ends. But I finished knitting it, seaming it, and weaving in the… Read More »All Sewn Up
