Susan Gibbs has finished her draw for her stash, so if you bought tickets, head on over and check.
I didn’t win, but that’s okay I don’t really need more yarn anyway and it sounds like the mounts raised are substantial. She raised $10,380, when she needed $5000 to cover the costs of the wheelchair.
Congratulations Susan! [...]
Jul 12th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
After a great deal of waiting and impatient checking, my spinning wheel arrived this week. I have not written sooner as I wanted to commune with it alone for a few days.
Of course the last any of you know it was on the Pacific somewhere — I had great imaginings about its life on-board [...]
Jul 9th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
When I was a child, one of my favourite stories involved a prince who fell in love with a commoner who would not marry him until he had a trade, so he learned to weave cloth. They ruled for several years, but he didn’t know how people really lived in his country, so he [...]
Jul 8th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I love it when movies deal with things I like and give them a disproportionate level of importance. Perhaps it is confessing too much, but I love The Mummy, and a lot of that is the importance it attached to reading a book.
I went to see Wanted over the weekend, and I think I [...]
Jul 7th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Susan Gibbs over at Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm is raffling off her entire stash to help her uncle buy a special wheelchair (for full details see here). Besides being very generous, this seems like it is too targeted at my demographic* to pass up, though where I would personally put it all I am [...]
Jul 4th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I just got several weeks worth of the Berroco KnitBits newsletter in my Bloglines account today, and I am so excited about the new fall patterns.
Nora Gaughan has been blogging about her design process for one of the sweaters here, here, here, here, and here. I very much like the outcome (see Prospera). [...]
Jul 1st, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
Well last night was the first night it has hailed so far this year. Yesterday was so hot (please humor me if you live somewhere that gets really hot, I have lived in the tropics, I know of what I speak), and the thunder started rumbling in the distance at about 10:00pm, and as [...]
Jun 28th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I have been waiting for what seemed like forever for a package in the mail, and guess what — it just arrived:
This package, which looks so small on my table has loomed large in my mind for the last few weeks, as it contains yarn with a deadline attached. Here it is in the [...]
I am so disappointed; I am still waiting for my spinning wheel. I have so much yarn dancing in my head, but I have no wheel, and I put down my deposit over a month ago.
Apparently, it is somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, and that is all we know.
I have already bought some fibre [...]
I have had such a frustrating time photographing this vest. These represent the fourth time we have tried to take good pictures — the last ones were okay, but I think they were too wintery, so here is our latest kick at the can:
The vest is great, but for some reason it hasn’t been easy [...]