September 2009
I have been knitting! When I realised that one of my vendors, Simply Socks Yarn Company was going to be at Sock Summit, I approached her about displaying some of my samples. Allison had not planned on bringing patterns to sell at Sock Summit, but she did have a proposal for me. Allison launched her own line of yarn which she planned to debut at Sock Summit. She wanted to have a knitted read more
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder has so many wonderful fibre references in it. Time to share another one. It was time to shear sheep. … and they drove the sheep down to the washing-pens. …Almanzo took hold of a woolly sheep and pushed it through one gate. … the sheep struggled and kicked and yelled. But the men rubbed their wool full of brown soft-soap and dragged them into the deep water. There the sheep had to swim. The men stood waist-deep in the swift water, and held on to the sheep read more
I had great intentions of blogging more regularly throughout the summer … … and then we bought a house … … and then I had to pack up all the yarn and our other “things” … … to get our apartment staged and cleaned to sell … … and then we went on vacation … … and then we sold our apartment (while we were on vacation–how great is that!) … … and read more
