So I took your advice and skipped Yarn Barn, though if I’m ever in Burke for another reason, I might go just to see what’s what there. I did go to both Michael’s and Joann (they’re two stores apart from each other) on the way home from work just to check if they maybe possibly [...]
Posted on December 10th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: LYS, gifts, yarn | 1 Comment »
The new local yarn store is quite nice. It’s a small store in Fairfax, near a good pho place. They have a bunch of yarns I’d never seen before, but unfortunately not the stuff I was looking for (and no sock yarn that really called out to me, either). But! the people there were incredibly [...]
Posted on December 8th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: LYS, lace, ostrich plumes, yarn | 3 Comments »
Last night I finally sat down with the Ostrich Plumes Scarf and put five or six rows on it. It’s over 12″ long now when it’s stretched out, though I think serious blocking would have it at more than that. I’m not finding it to be very relaxing knitting at all. The yarn is slippery, [...]
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: LYS, lace, ostrich plumes | 2 Comments »
I ended up skipping SnB last night because of the weather. After choosing to work from home and spending the day in my pajamas, I couldn’t get motivated to get dressed, scrape off my car, and navigate the icy roads. This morning I knew I’d made the right decision - the parking lot was a [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: SnB | 2 Comments »
Though I mentioned my WEBS order yesterday, I didn’t really expect anything to come of it. I certainly didn’t expect Kathy from WEBS to find that post and leave a comment on it, saying that I was indeed entitled to the discount, and to please email her so everything can be straightened out. How absolutely [...]
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: yarn | 2 Comments »
It’s here, it’s here! The last piece of my WEBS order is here! There’s only one thing that disappoints me - they charged me full price for this one ball of yarn, even though I ordered them all together and should have gotten the 20% discount. I guess that only applies to yarn that [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: SnB, lace, ostrich plumes, sock, trekking90 sock | 1 Comment »
Ah, finally, a chance to talk about both knitting, and my day job, in the same post!
Today at around 10:00am the power went out. It flicked off, then on again (the HVAC was confused) then off. And it stayed that way. After a minute or two, we all shut our computers off (it’s so [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: design, sock, trekking90 sock, work | 2 Comments »
Yesterday was finally sunny enough for me to take pictures of my new yarn! I tried to take pictures of the sock progress, but it looks so silly. The ribbing pulls in so far that you’d think I was knitting for a gimpy mutant. I tried pulling the sock over my hand and arm to [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by Pirate
Filed under: yarn | 1 Comment »
