My visual thrills this week have been provided by the field of barley next to the Windswept Acre. Each morning when I take the dogs…
Tag: Yarn
Oh, what a Thursday Thrill we have today. Nobody can tell me that new stash is ever any less than thrilling but today’s parcel is…
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…
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…
My yarn for the Evenstar arrived this morning. A good choice, I think. It has rather more bright blue in it than I expected but…
There is a cornucopia of riches awaiting my East efforts in my stash basket, given my focus on spice shades as well as Yellow. We have rovings to spin and yarns to knit, and some yarns that I have earmarked for weaving too.