KNITSTER

No, that subject isn’t a typo at all.
I was looking at eBay, since I hadn’t been there for a while, just doing some window shopping, so to speak, and I came across this in my browsing….

This is a trading card of some sort showing Queen Victoria herself spinning on a wheel made by some […]

Posted on June 15th, 2008 by Dani
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Me! Me! Me!
Oh my goodness, I am about to burst! My wonderful husband just put in the order for  an Ashford Kiwi from The Woolery. It comes unfinished and I have to put it together… and the, of course, I have to learn to spin on it. But! Beautiful yarn at a faster pace is […]

Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Xiane
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While I am still working on the shrug of no pattern with the chunky yarn, I started to realize that I do need to have more than one project going at a time. I did start a pair of mittens for my son at one point, but he’s forgotten about them, and winter is pretty […]

Posted on April 1st, 2007 by Dani
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well, this month has been crazy. we all got sick, and are now, after getting better, getting sick again. not to mention the fun that was halloween. yep- life with two big kids can be hectic.
but- i have been knitting. designing more than anything, so most of what i have been […]

Posted on November 8th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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We have a family favorite apple orchard. They do the whole farm experience, complete with bottle feeding goats and calves, as well as chicks to hold, a corn pit to jump in and bury your sister or father in, and a tractor ride out in the fields to look at corn, squash and a […]

Posted on October 29th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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i got a job teaching knitting. i am teaching a lace scarf class, a beginning knitters class, and a fair isle class. should be fun. and so i am working on patterns and knitting, but i would rather be spinning.
which is what i am doing tonight. i bought myself about a […]

Posted on September 20th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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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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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, 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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i have decided that i really hate knitting with sari silk. while it is beautiful, it is really a bitch to knit with. not that it is stopping me from finishing my project, but ugh.
on the needles now…..
sari silk purse. it is almost done after major alterations to the knitty pattern. […]

Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Pickleboot
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