Toasty

I'm clearly overdue to tell you about Rhinebeck.  My only excuse is that we've gone of on a bit of an excursion after, and, when faced with the choice between staring at my computer or gazing out across the water, the water wins. But I have found one of the things I picked up at the show to be especially useful on the trip.  You see, I did an odd thing.  I didn't buy any yarn at Rhinebeck.  I know this is a bit scandalous, but alas it's true (don't worry, I have remedied this on the rest of the [...]

October 28, 2014|

Gold Star

I have come to the conclusion that I deserve a gold star sticker for successful adult-ing over the last two weeks.  In that time I put a few hundred books in the mail, went to Detroit for a show, came home, put a few hundred more books in the mail, went to Toronto for another show, came home, and put the very last of the preorder books in the mail.  Somewhere in there I actually managed to do a few loads of laundry, cook a few meals, do a few loads of dishes, and take enough showers not to raise [...]

July 1, 2014|

Two at a Time

We've established that I have rather eclectic taste in music (and eclectic may be the polite word...it may actually be that I have rather dreadful taste in music, but I'm ok with that).  And we've established that The Boy and I have a pronounced propensity to dart off for the evening for a concert at the slightest provocation.  So it should have come as no surprise when we found ourselves settled in the car Friday afternoon headed to Detroit. For you see, The Two Man Gentlemen Band happened to be playing at Cliff Bell's, and it seemed a shame not [...]

June 23, 2014|

Sheep Gazing

This past Saturday we stopped by the Great Lakes Fiber Show (it's something of a tradition at this point).  I visited with the lovely Bare Naked Wools folks (you should come play in our knitalong, it's the yummiest yarn imaginable).  But other than a few goodies from their booth, I actually managed to not bring home any yarn.  Shocking I know.  But I'm in the yarn acquisition phase for a new set of books (yes, already, these things have long timelines), and am sort of saturated with yarn-y goodness at the moment.  But, so as not to leave you hanging, [...]

May 27, 2014|

Signs

If this recent trip had a theme, it would have to be embracing the unexpected.  The trip itself came up on short notice, and it took a wee bit of finagling to make it practical for me to come along.  But we sorted it out.  As a result, we went to the water, obtained lovely yarn, launched a new embroidery obsession, visited dear friends, discovered new drinks, and had two of the best meals ever (seriously, Gracie's and T. W. Food, go if you have the chance).  That's an awful lot of delightful things to manage on a short-notice trip.  [...]

January 16, 2014|

Unexpected Development

I'm accustomed to falling prey to random fits of yarn lust.  That's pretty normal at this point.  But my final purchase of the trip was something rather more unexpected.  I bought a coloring book.  More specifically, I bought The Tattoo Coloring Book, and it is astonishingly awesome.  I highly recommend clicking on the picture to go see it in its full glory.  I'll wait. Now, this sort of behavior isn't without precedent.  I have a handy little collection of coloring books (and have since college) plus a giant bucket of colored pencils, and I turn to them in times of [...]

January 14, 2014|

Hypnotic

So Wednesday's trip to Webs was lovely and totally met my yarn acquisition needs for the week month near future.  I had absolutely no intention of seeking out more yarn on the trip.  But somehow, completely without my conscious intervention, this happened. I just sort of fell in and couldn't pull myself out without bringing a pair of them home with me.  I'm sure you understand.  The way the color is put on the yarn is fabulous...it's not this stretch is blue and this stretch is purple and this stretch is green.  Rather, each bit of yarn has all the [...]

January 13, 2014|

In which the lighting is bad, but the yarn is good

  Wednesday I got up early, dropped The Boy off at that pesky work thing, and ventured west.  A few hours later, I found myself in front of Webs.  Now, I've shopped on Webs' site and listened to their podcast for years.  One of my first thoughts upon realizing we were headed to Boston was hmmm, that's not far from Webs.  I was rather looking forward to going, and I was not disappointed. Now, that's not to say it was quite like I expected.  I think I assumed it was something like the world's biggest, coziest yarn store with a [...]

January 10, 2014|

What Price Notes

Remember the slipper?  The slipper from back in October? I found I wanted it to have a mate.  So I grabbed the yarn, felt terribly clever that I'd packed the needles up with the yarn, and started knitting. Now, I wasn't quite clever enough to have held on to my notes for these.  But I figured I'd made it once before, I had the first one, I can count, so how hard could it be.  I cast on, did a bit of counting and fiddling, and soon had the first half of a slipper. But all was not well.  Not [...]

January 8, 2014|
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