Under the Weather

or rather under the influence of the weather, I have begun the annual ritual of preparing for Christmas, more specifically preparing my knitting plans for Christmas. Naturally, this involves trips to yarn stores and online yarn orders.
Notice I said “trips” to the yarn-store… Earlier this week I made my first foray out for Christmas [...]

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I plied and plied

and then suddenly… it was done.
I have finally finished spinning and plying so here are the specs -
Bitter Green
Fiber: 100% merino
Colour: Hand-dyed shades of green and blue-green
Amount: 4oz of fiber
From: a ravelry destash
Yield: 2 nearly full bobbins
Spun as: lace weight 2 ply on the highest ratio on my Minstrel
Yardage: not yet calculated… stay tuned

The colours [...]

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I Slipped and my Credit Card went BOOM!

But I have an excuse!!  (yeah, right, always)
It goes like this.  My mom’s sister was over today and I was working on mom’s birthday shawl and she said she wanted one like the one I gave mom for Christmas (the purple diamond one).  So I offered to take her name for Christmas (a mere what, 9 [...]

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