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Sheep get personal
Heading across the parking lot Sunday to Oregon Flock and Fiber, saoba and I spotted this flier tucked under the rear-windshield wiper of a small car:
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Constant knitter, sporadic poster
One of the tasks I set myself last year was to hold off on buying yarn while I knit through my stash. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be; I'd already been in the habit of curbing the impulse buying by purchasing yarn with specific projects in mind, and then (duh) knitting them. Between holiday gift socks, Oblique and Komon, and then a ( Read more... ) -
Holy cow, that was fast.
I finished Komon last night, steam-pressed it this morning* and am wearing it to work. (-:
Nine days of knitting and two long-ish evenings spent seaming it up and weaving in a bazillion slippery rayon ends. And I wasn't even particularly trying to finish this one quickly.
I credit two things:- Lots of time on my hands, including two five-hour ( Read more... )
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Yarn!
The yarn for my impending Oblique arrived in the mail this week, and I think I'm in love.
It's Elann's Incense, and it is yummy: 50 percent wool, 25 percent silk, 25 percent bamboo (edited to fix fiber percentages, with a soft, smooth, luxurious hand. Like a lot of elann's house-brand worsteds, it seems to be a slightly finer gauge than most ( Read more... )
