All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘yarn’

• I have a hole.

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  Not in my knitting… but in my life. I just watched my Ashford Joy walk out the door and thus am spinning wheel-less. One might think this would be liberating, what with all the white thumbed yarn clenching… the uneven twist… slanted stockinette sweaters… But …

  

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• That kind of day

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  Today is the kind of day where the snow is melting, which really puts me in a fowl mood. The only thing to do when one is in a fowl mood is to sit by the wood stove and spin, ply actually. Its the kind …

  

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• I never thought I’d say it.

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  I love an impure yarn. I’m a purist.  I love home baked bread, with flour ground by hand, and butter shaken, not stirred – by hand.  I love clothes knit by hand with undyed wool spun by hand, that has been carded by hand, washed …

  

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• Movie Monday: Continental vs. English Style Knitting

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  As attached as we are to our knitting style, sometimes it is more efficient to be able to do both – for our minds, for our knitting and for our hands.

  

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