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Packing it up

It is my last morning to sit on the porch outside in 70 degree weather with my first cup of coffee in the morning. I hear the weather back in Indiana isn’t so nice.

A little progress was made on Cassidy. I had to figure out where I was, tear down and fix some cable [...]

Surgery = progress (or different kind of surgery?)

So, a four to six hour heart surgery means about six hours of knitting times so far today. I figured it would be a good time to concentrate on sleeve and AT THE SAME TIME neck shaping on Cassidy. I am ready to do a cable cross and realize there are not enough rows between [...]

UFO Night tonight!!

Its cold and rainy out after a beautiful sunny 80F yesterday and I have projects to get finished. Guess its a good thing tonight is UFO night! And, now I’m making my next Top Ten list public. I really need encouragement to get these projects finished so I can move on to the new stuff!

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insouciant back in stock!

While Susan has the pleasure of scanning, photographing and describing new yarn, I get to do the fun job of processing reorders, special orders and deciding on new products, books and gadgets. If you’ve been waiting for Cat Bordhi’s Personal Footprints book, its here!! I’ll call you for pickup information or shipping information [...]

what to knit on a quick trip

it was a hard choice, socks or something new? when the box arrived, i knew it would be something new. yep, it is half crepe from mountain colors and I’m making a one skein shawl. easy, lovely colors, nice drape. If Susan doesn’t have the other colors online yet, she will [...]

Woolly goodies back in stock!

It’s still snowing so we are allowed to knit, felt and decorate with snowmen, right?  We just restocked all of Marie Mayhew’s patterns and the snowman really works well with Galway white.

But if you prefer to ignore the snow, you could start on the cute bunnie or chicks for Easter or her newest pattern, Woolly [...]

Warm feet!

Thank you Tom for giving me warm feet in between working on George. I am surprised at the difference between the feel and warmth of galway and shepherds wool. Shepherds wins hands down. We’ll compare wear factors as the winter progresses. Your thoughts? More about George later.

Tara picked 17

Is that because she will turn 17 next year?  Anyways, number 17 was . . . drumroll please, Nancy Wilson! 

Nancy receiving her winning book, Knitted Gifts

And here she is just sitting down after a hard day of teaching. 
No, she isn’t an employee, but is a valuable part of our teaching team and she was teaching [...]

An Old Flame and a New Love

We have just gotten new stock (and re-stocked a few colors) of Galway Worsted and I am reminded once again of how much I like this yarn. There is definitely a place in my knitting for the lofty, super-soft merinos such as Shepherd’s Wool, but Galway is what I want when I desire something a [...]

Swirl Shawl – all the rage!

Our supply of Jojoland Superwash Melody is dwindling as well as the Swirl Shawl patterns and I found myself wondering why.  Hmm, the Yarn Harlot has posted!  She is now knitting the scarf version of this:

Once you get going with the pattern, its a fairly easy knit.  Just buy 5 balls of Superwash Melody from:  [...]