Archive for March, 2010
I’ve been very busy knitting lately, but haven’t had much to show for it. Distributing your efforts between lots of projects makes for lots of industrious work, but not much in the way of results. Yesterday, however, I managed to finish two different projects – one that’s been on my needles for over a month [...]
This past week, I found a very special package waiting for me on the front porch. Inside was the newest addition to my fiber family – a Lendrum double treadle spinning wheel. For the last six months or so, I’ve been doing a lot of research and a bit of soul-searching to decide whether or [...]
I was hoping to have a new pattern out for consumption by the end of February, but as of right now, I don’t even have the pattern written. In mid-February I started a new job which has severely cut into my knitting time. Because of this, I was unable to finish knitting up the prototype [...]
This should be the last of the Stitches West related posts, thank goodness. I didn’t think that I would have quite this much to talk about, but that has turned out not to be the case. One of my favorite booths this year was Little Red Bicycle / Femme Fatale Fibers. Not only do both [...]
Continuing on with my adventures at Stitches West… After Wabi Sabi, I stopped by the Girl on the Rocks booth. There were a ton of cute little knitting/fiber accessories there that caught my eye, but before coming to the convention I had decided to stick with entirely fiber this year. I stuck to my word [...]
This past weekend I was able to attend Stitches West for the first time. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but thanks to some sage advice from the girls at Purlescence Yarns (bring water and take it slow) and a bit of pre-planning on my part (mapped out the booths I wanted to visit first), [...]
