The hits just keep coming

or what you can accomplish during Star Trek marathons…
FO: Mom’s Christmas Mittens

Pattern: not really a particular pattern, used a combination of sources on mittens in general and thrummed mittens
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden
Yardage: about 1.5 skeins (well, 2 with nearly half a skein total weight left over…)
Thrums: Briggs & Little Country Roving in natural/white (I used [...]

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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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Instant Gratification

Baby hats- ’nuff said.
Specs: Sophie’s Beret
Pattern: Child’s Play Beret
Designer: Laura Brown
Yarn: Knit Picks bare worsted(?)
Needles: 3.75mm circ (I think…)
Cast On: Dec. 5.08
Bound Off: Dec. 5.08

Dyed: Dec. 6.08
Colour: mix of Sapphire Blue, Jet Black, and Sky Blue over a previous Turquoise dye job.
Notes: I added the pom pom today. Somehow my numbers didn’t quite work out [...]

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Sock Yarn Doesn’t Count… right?

Because if it doesn’t, I only added one skein of lace weight to my stash yesterday… otherwise….
Saturday night was a Halloween party with friends down Niagara way. I was a pirate and discovered that there are advantages to costume parties with re-enactors, my well used polyester pirate costume was accessorized with C.’s tricorn and gorgeous [...]

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Socks ate my brain…

Yesterday I woke up with an idea for a pair of socks, I spent most of the rest of the day… writing a sock pattern, swatching (*gasp* yes I swatched and even washed and blocked the swatch), and working on test knitting. The plan is to publish it in some format, either try submitting it [...]

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Raiders of the Lost Stash (or I cleaned my closet)

This past Saturday, we picked up some filing cabinets from my Aunt who is moving and didn’t want them any more.  I have been saying I need filing cabinets for… years.   As I head into my 9th year of university the number of files I have managed to accumulate quite literally filled my closet (clothes [...]

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I would walk 500 miles…

Okay, so it isn’t 500 miles… I, using my ravelry stash stats, calcuated the milage in my stash: rounding to the nearest 1000, I have 40,000 yards of yarn.  Which works out to 22.7272 miles or 22 miles and 1280 yards (or if you want to go the other way: 120,000 feet or 1,440,000 inches*) [...]

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