Archive for July, 2010
News Flash!! – Flying Saucers have landed!! – Barbie has just been sighted!! – and other Related News Items!!!
Flying Saucers have just been sighted at Mad About Ewe. These gorgeous sock yarns are hand-dyed and then balled to produce matching socks. So all of you sock knitters who love to match your socks – take note – now you can have matching socks in hand-dyed yarn. The yarn is a soft wool/nylon blend [...]
First Sweater!
Andrea finished her first sweater! And it turned out great. After swatching and measuring and then knitting like crazy she is finished. She needed a little help with the seaming, but once started she went home and finished it off beautifully! Congratulations!
Need help with your first project – come on in – we can help!
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Jump into the “Pool”!!
The next summer class, Aug 5th, is “Pooling”! learning how to look at your hand-dyed yarns in a new way. Many hand-dyed yarns can be encouraged to pool deliberately, with wonderful results! I still have a couple of spots left. Jump in the water in fine!
Happy Knitting
Lynette
Due to …..
Lack of interest the Paint by Numbers class for Knitters is cancelled. Perhaps the dates chosen were inconvenient or the project wasn’t something that you cared for – I hope that we can run this at a later date. If you are interested in this in the future please let me know.
Happy Knitting
Lynette
MMmmm…Marvelous MMmmm…Malabrigo!
We have just received our first shipment of Malabrigo Worsted, 7 colours – it was so hard to choose! This is one of the softest Merino’s we have ever carried. It is easy to understand why it has become so popular. We have had the Malabrigo Lace Baby Merino for a couple of years and [...]
What is the first rule of trying to use up bits of yarn?
You have to buy more yarn!!
I am currently at that point. I have completed my mittens in June project – I just need to write the pattern for the mittens. But I had all of these left over bits of yarn, why didn’t I add a bonus chunky hat to the pattern? Great idea! [...]