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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Shoes and Stash

Yesterday I had to go shopping, you know for the necessities that arise with the purchase of any new dress.

Gold (and white) shoes for the wedding, which are both cute and comfortable
And since I was in town I decided to check out the yarn store, I mean I have already been living here for [...]

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Worse Than Yarn Stores

I found something worse than yarn stores, a place were wool fumes are stronger, a place credit cards mention only in a fearful hush, while looking over their shoulders. This place is Dye-Version’s showroom. I think being so close to the source of amazing hand-dyed and hand-painted yarns should come with a warning.  [...]

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Birthday S(tash) E(enhancing) (e)X(perience)

So yes, one year older…which means… what else, more yarn!
Saturday I went on one last Toronto Yarn Crawl with M and G, and we introduced my god-mother to the wonders of the modern yarn store. We started with Indian Buffet on Queen and then headed out to Romni (because, it has to be seen to [...]

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A Good Mail Day in One Box

My Phat Fiber Sampler arrived today. I opted for the fiber option (meaning, yarn, accessories and fiber). Here is a detailed break down of the contents… with links… and pictures…
Yarn:
*Artemisia Ink Studio Arts: 21 yds, 2ply merino/alpaca (one ply is merino, the other alpaca) bulky handspun in Cranberry Rainbow (purples, blues, greens)
*Bohemian Knitter [...]

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Whoa and Blerg and Y-ay

First off – Happy New Year!! (Only half a month behind!!)
The Whoa:
* I’m supposed to submit my thesis in less than 10 weeks!!
* We are moving to Moncton!!
For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian geography here is the map showing Toronto and Moncton (the distance is a mere 1,522km/946mi [...]

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More Shopping

But first FO pics!
Specs: BSJ of Many Colours
Pattern: Baby Suprise Jacket
Designer: EZ
Size: um, small…
Yarn: Araucania Ranco Multy
Colourway: 314
Yardage: little more than half of the ball
Needles: 3.75mm circs
Cast On: Nov. 19.08
Bound Off: Nov. 21.08

Notes: As has been said before, just follow the instructions (and don’t try to out think EZ) and it works out…perfectly! [...]

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It was the wool fumes…

I swear! Well… actually, all things considered I did pretty darn well.
Yes, I bought yarn. I was down on King West (like really far west… as in almost to Roncevalles west) and what do you do when you have hours to kill after a meeting at that end of town before you can catch the [...]

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oohhh shiny!

Yesterday my Loopy Ewe order came! I had ordered Stricken and Ornette and 2 skeins of Malabrigo Lace in the Cypress colourway.

And since it was my 6th order, I achieved Loopy Groupie status (I won’t spoil it for anyone else waiting to see what the surprises are). But I will say this, I am beginning [...]

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Going to Toronto, going to the Fair

Tuesday we took the kids on a field trip to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, held on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (usually known as the CNE or the Ex – more often in my experience the Ex, strictly speaking the Ex is the late summer fair and midway, but since there are [...]

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