Yarnbomb!
June 23rd, 2011
I was sitting outside one of my favorite coffee places this morning thinking the trees outside needed some decorative knitting. My next stop was the library, where I found a lovely example of knitting graffiti.
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Some Very Cute Mittens
November 13th, 2010
I haven’t tried mittens yet, but after attending the Nordic Knitting Conference in Seattle last month, I may tackle it. I have been assured they’re not that hard. After looking again at pictures of these mittens, brought by teacher Carol Rhoades, I am tempted.
Then again, I may start with a wrist warmer, like one of these, from the same class.
Yarn, Coffee and Pastries
October 20th, 2010
It doesn’t get any better than that.
I spent last weekend at the Nordic Knitting Conference in Seattle, sponsored by our own Nordic Heritage Museum. Teachers and students from around the country (and beyond), housed in a wonderful old brick building. Plus a discovery in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood of the best pastry I’ve ever had. And that’s saying something (I’m constantly researching!)
When I walked into my first class I saw a dozen or so balls of yarn waiting for us. The class was titled, “Two-color Garter stitch, and the instructor supplied the yarn for us. She was from Sweden, and had brought along yarn from a small spinnery in Sweden,Ostergotlands Ullspinneri AB .
The owner of the spinnery had come along to the conference, and brought some of this lovely yarn along to sell at the gift shop (it’s unavailable in the U.S.) I usually wait until the last day of these things, and then have to choose from among the picked-over goods. Not this time–I took one look at the few beautiful skeins she had brought along and pounced. Three hundred meters per skein–into the stash it goes.
And a skein of Toots LeBlanc & Co. luxuriou$ 60/40 Merino/Angora–the fingering weight in light gray. The scarf she had in this gorgeous stuff was like a cloud.
All in all, a terrific weekend. New goodies to post in to my stash on Ravelry.
A New Video, A New Class
January 12th, 2009
Another video uploaded (uploading, actually). I’ve completed the tutorials on swatches and stitch gauge. Part 1 is on circular swatches and Part 2 is on flat swatches and blocking. There are certainly videos on these subjects already on the web, and I debated skipping them and just linking to the other sites, but I wanted my series of tutorials to be a “one-stop shopping” experience.
Elsewhere in the news this evening, I just enrolled for a class at the Madrona Fiber Arts Festival in Tacoma (Washington) in mid-February. This promises to be an amazing festival, if reports of past years are to be believed. There is an incredible lineup of instructors: Sally Melville, Elsebeth Lavold, Vivian Hoxbro (sorry Vivian, I don’t have that special symbol for the “o” in your name), Lucy Neatby, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, etc. Some of the classes are so popular the enrollees are chosen by lottery–I missed a slot in Sally Melville’s class, but was able to snag a spot in Vivian Hoxbro’s Lazy Knitters’ Dominos. I don’t know if I’m a lazy knitter, but I’m all for anything easy that yields good results.
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