Month: May 2010

May 4, 2010 /

This is terrible: two show-and-tells in a row that involve shopping and spending money. I’ll be shot at dawn if the old man finds out…

Is it OK to shop if it is bargain-based? I think that it might be 🙂

Colourmart posted some eBay cone end sets last week and I thought that they looked like really good weaving practice yarns…

May 2, 2010 /

Today is Day 7 of Knit/Crochet Blog week and today’s prompt is:

There’s one love that we all share: yarn. Blog about a particular yarn you have used in the past or own in your stash, or perhaps one that you covet from afar. If it is a yarn you have used you could show the project that you used it for, perhaps writing a mini ‘review’. Perhaps, instead, you pine for the feel of the almost mythical qiviut? You could explore and research the raw material and manufacturing process if you were feeling investigative.

Previous blog posts have contained the immortal phrase “If I could only knit with one yarn for the remainder of my life, this would be it” (or words to that effect.) The way I see it then is, having already laid my cards on the table, I am constrained to claim that yarn for this post.

Read on…