I’m not knitting socks. It’s the first time since I started knitting socks that I don’t have a single pair on the needles. I somehow got socked out. Maybe it was knitting two pairs of knee socks in a row in about 3 weeks.
At the end of Sock Summit, I really needed something simple and [...]
This is the story of two yarns. Very different in character and colorway, but sisters nonetheless.
Meet Earthenware.
and Taffy
(Okay, so Taffy is still roving. Not quite yarn, yet. She’s waiting patiently in the Shop for someone to take her home and turn her into the yarn she longs to be!)
These two seem so different, don’t they? [...]
I’m still here, I promise. Sorry to disappear on you like that… My mom always said (when I was a whiny teenager who hated everything and couldn’t wait to be finished with high school) that time starts to fly past you faster and faster as you get older.
Well, my mom has never been wrong yet, [...]
At long last, after months of preparing and stressing and joyfully staining everything I own with dye:
Wool Candy, the Shop is opening it’s virtual doors!
A few things about the shop:
The opening selection is small, but will grow rapidly. At the moment, I have several colors of Merino Bamboo sock yarn, Colonial Wool sock yarn, and [...]
Tobin and I just got back from spending Christmas week in Tucson with his mom and brother.
Since we were there for the entire week without many plans but to hang around the house and relax, I brought Lacey and about a pound and a half of fiber along with me.
Lacey and I were insanely productive. [...]
I’m spending today recovering from a two day Thanksgiving cooking marathon. Don’t get me wrong — I love to cook, and cooking for fourteen people for my favorite holiday was a blast. Still, cooking for fourteen people for two days straight is exhausting. But dinner was delicious, the company was delightful, and now we have [...]
I’ve been so busy lately knitting:
and dyeing:
and spinning:
that I haven’t stopped long enough to blog about everything I’ve been working on!
I’ve made a promise to myself, though, that I’m going to blog every single day, and what better day to start than a Monday?
