we have a mother’s helper with us this week. as part of his payment, i wanted to get him a drop spindle. he showed interest in spinning the first time he was out here, so i thought it good to foster it.
so off we went to my favorite spinning shop- dettas spindle. […]
Posted on August 28th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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there’s an option to mark comments in the queue as spam instead of deleting them. if you’re moderating the comments that you get, make sure to click the spam box instead of the delete box and let’s see if we can’t get this beastie under control. i’ll do some research to see if i can […]
Posted on August 28th, 2006 by Helen
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i just wound up my first real attempt at plying.
and it worked.
i have 213 yards of worsted weight camel. what to do? i think i have another 200 or so yards on two more bobbins?
ideas?
Posted on August 28th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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well. it had to happen.
i am addicted to socks. and sock yarn. i guess it was a matter of time. so- i have sock yarn coming out of my ears.
that’s all.
and- since i need to- i am going to be blogging about my migraines. professionally. link to come!
Posted on August 22nd, 2006 by Pickleboot
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I’ve given my friend Dina access to the back-end of the site so that she can see how it works, since some people we know in common are considering using Wordpress for their community blog.
It shouldn’t affect anything you guys are doing, but I wanted to let you know just in case.
Play on, knitsters!
Oh — […]
Posted on August 16th, 2006 by Helen
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in 2002 i had my second child. in 2002 my son was diagnosed with autism. in 2002 my world started to make sense. and all of a sudden, i needed an outlet. i was a jeweler, but not wanting to devote all my time to working in metal again, i started […]
Posted on August 11th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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iknow that our little corner of the blog world doesn’t get much traffic. maybe because we lack the star quality of the rest of the knitterati. but there are some pretty amazing people here.
having said that, i am seriously disappointed in my knitting bretheren on a certain site. upset enough that i am […]
Posted on August 9th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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Well, my fiber interests took a bigger role in my weekend that it has in more recently passed weekends. It started out with me travelling down to Mt. Holly to Woolbearers to pick up the Howard Brush student carders that I ordered, and the additional skeins of Cascade 220 that I needed for the sweater […]
Posted on August 6th, 2006 by Dani
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when i first started knitting, i knit a few pairs of socks. and hated every loooong minute. now that i am more seasoned, and understand the process so much more, i tackled the socks again.
and, to my surprise, i am really enjoying the process. i am realizing i am more of a […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 by Pickleboot
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Woo-hoo! I got the tank top finished! It doesn’t look too bad. I’m just finishing up the crochet edge on the second armhole (I suck at that, but at least it’s just single crochet), and then I’m done! I’m thinking of washing it before I photograph it, as it’s been stretched out, etc, and it […]
Posted on August 3rd, 2006 by Dani
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