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The State of the Knitting….or should I say lack of Knitting.

Current Mood: HappyFirst off let me apologize for the signs of construction here. My old theme wasn’t really working well with the new version of wordpress so I’m in the process of searching out a theme to modify. I’m fairly pleased with this one beyond some of the color choices so we’ll see. I am [...]

Progress has been made

So I figured I should update. The past week has been pretty good actually. I managed to create some order in the chaos that is my third bedroom so now I have a dedicated sewing space. I hope to put in a couple of hours of practice on the machine today or tomorrow. I also [...]

The Fiber Haul

So with all the sales going on (which so far I have managed to not order from) my initial plan was to pick up two items and some handmade soap. I wanted to get Color in Spinning and a niddy noddy. I was however DENIED. There had been one copy of the book and [...]

Tennessee Fiber Fair

So Saturday Claire, Judie, Phil and I headed down to Dickson to the Tennessee Fiber Festival. We planned on doing some shopping and then going to plant world and then finally lunch at boobies. Home of the famous boobie burger. We went there last year and everyone loved it. So first up was [...]

Merry Christmas..

So I figured I’d do a holiday update. My holiday knitting was umm zero so that was nice. It’s not that I have a problem with hand knits as gifts so much that the deadline thing means I’d never knit anything but gifts, and that would be NO fun. However I am taking the NO [...]

I had a request…

So last night the most fabulous Mj requested a shot of my hand spun. It is crapalicious in the extreme. The sad part is that even in its crappiness it is an improvement over the stuff I just refuse to show anyone. In fact it was so crappy I cut it off the bobbin. So [...]