Posted in Fountain Pens, Stash Acquisition, spinning on Oct 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Last year was the first year I’d taken a class at the Rhinebeck Sheep & Wool Festival. Taking the class last year really made the whole Rhinebeck experience so much more than yarn shopping mayhem. It gave me the chance to connect with people who are as fiber obsessed as I am.
As I started to [...]
Posted in Knitting, Stash Acquisition, WIP on Nov 16th, 2009 3 Comments »
Rhinebeck, 2008. The one thing I didn’t buy (and there was one), was a Shetland 2000 kit from Yarns International. I thought about it for the better part of a year. So when Rhinebeck, 2009 rolled around, I was scouring their website, trying to select the kit of my dreams.
Mark chose Scotland as his sweater [...]
Posted in Caffeine, Everything Else, Knitting, Pets, Stash Acquisition, Weaving on Apr 27th, 2009 5 Comments »
We’re back from our vacation in the Adirondacks and after an action-packed week at work, it seems as if we’d never left.
Mark and Abbey at the high jump, Lake Placid Olympic Center
My friend Teresa who makes crazy-beautiful things, asked me to knit a sweater for her to display some of her crewel work buttons. [...]
Posted in Essentials, Finished Objects, Knitting, Socks, Stash Acquisition, spinning on Oct 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
Rhinebeck happened. I did my part to make sure the ecomony gets a little bit of a jolt. It was a beautiful Saturday; I was there with my famiy. My best knitting buddy Lois and her husband Evan came in from Wisconsin, timing their visit wisely to coincide with Wool and Sheep. Our loved ones [...]
Posted in Everything Else, Finished Objects, Fountain Pens, Knitting, Socks, Stash Acquisition, Summer of Socks on Aug 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
August brings with it school physicals and things at the doctors’ office are hopping. This makes it pretty close to impossible to take a vacation, still, I managed to grab some fun here and there.
M and I went to NYC to help Jessica move. She’d finished her stint in publishing and was ready to be [...]
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