That’s my excuse for the time between posts. I never had any intention of taking the time to post while visiting AwesomeE and my folks last weekend, but I sort of thought I’d post sometime this week. But here we are Saturday, and I’ve only got time for a quick… Read More »Jet lag sucks…
Warning – long post ahead We had a quiet evening Monday night, which was good because Tuesday was busier on the whole. The start to the morning was a bit smoother – my class didn’t start until 10am and second go round I’d figured out the coffee situation. Did I… Read More »Shetland – Tuesday
It’s been a busy but thankfully not totally exhausting couple of days. This is really good, because we’re only part way through our trip and the full day hike in still in front of us. I have, however, already eaten far more scones than is good for me. TheEnabler and… Read More »A Shetland Update
If you’ve been following the blog, you know I’ve been working on spinning yarn to use in a brioche scarf for TheEnabler. However, we only found one of the colors needed back in April at the Wonderwool Wales festival and because of the multi-colored nature of the top, we wanted… Read More »More fluffies
I made a very wise tactical decision to go to Stephen & Penelope on Thursday after work, when they stay open later (until 8pm) instead of waiting until Saturday. This brought two benefits: 1) I was one of only a few customers in the shop, making it easier to take… Read More »Amsterdam Acquisitions
I feel like I’ve been on a it of a yarn buying spree – but for other people – lately. Well, mostly… there were those two impulse skeins of Regia, but what sock knitter can resist inexpensive sturdy and pretty sock yarn? Irresistable combo. I still haven’t learned to head… Read More »Yarn Fairy
Know what’s great? When you learn that a friend/family member/colleague or similar has decided to take up knitting (or crochet, spinning, etc…). Why? A couple reasons. The first is frankly probably the most important: I genuinely believe fiber and textile arts/crafts to be really fullfilling and fantastic pursuits. They involve… Read More »Putting on my enabler hat
Sunday was our day at the festival. We picked Sunday because: – it’s when there was still room in the classes we picked – more stuff was likely to be closed in Brecon on Sunday – festivals are often a little less crazy on Sunday than Saturday. Since I can’t… Read More »Wonderwool Wales
So last night the kilt hose looked like this: Not bad right? Starting to look a bit more like a sock? It doesn’t look like that anymore. The larger cable there is the back of the calf, and it’s rapidly decreasing to nothing. But, upon a quick check with both… Read More »Frustrations in Footwear
I confess. I went shopping for more yarn online and I put yarn in my cart, and I finished checking out. Some people would offer mitigating circumstances – there was an ad on Ravelry, they were looking for yarn to finish a project in progress, somebody talked them into it,… Read More »Premeditated
