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Winners! — St-Denis Yarns
Yippee! I just won a yarn sample. What fun! Can’t wait to get it in the mail. It’s going to be a fun pick me up.
Thanks Veronik!

Recently took a trip to Boston area for a friend’s wedding. It was a short 4 days including the two days on the road. We borrowed a GPS from a friend which really came in handy and suffered mostly time in the pouring rain. However the day of the wedding was great so that’s really [...]

As expected, had a fantastic time at frolic. I didn’t really have much in mind to get anything save for maybe some DIC baby.
Perhaps not surprisingly, my interest again was in lace. Here’s a show of the goodies. And I love the new goknit bag. It’s HUGE. awesome.
DIC Baby in Dusty Rose & Oakleaf [...]

I’ve been trying to make sure I try to have some fun whenever I can. I took the chance on Friday during the day to head to the creativFestival for a quick two hours and check out the market floor.
I came home with some goodies. It was a sad showing for needlework. I’m glad I [...]

Edited 12:52pm: added new website address.
Saturday was the preview for the PassionKnit Annual Yarn Sale. The sale runs for all of June – Their new website. [Thanks Patty!] their website is down. (a real pet peeve of mine! Why have a site if you’re not going to keep it up or update it! But [...]

Went to Lettuce Knit yesterday to pick up the silk thread that was put aside for me earlier in the week.

It wasn’t until I got home that I realized that it’s not Silk Thread but Silk Thread II! It’s got a little less yardage so now I’m not sure if I’ve enough for Simurgh.
I went [...]

It’s been ages, but my languishing unfinished cabled sweater needed to be ripped.

I do feel better. It needed to be done. I was this close to ripping out the body and trying again with a different pattern. But I think I’ll give it one more go this year.