Tag: Yarn
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Hazel Knits Trunk Show
What is it about not having enough time to knit that makes new yarn so hard to resist? This weekend I went to the Hazel Knits trunk show at The Fiber Gallery expecting to maybe pick up some Cadence in Zest if they had it. They didn’t, but I still managed to find a big…
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There’s a Pink Chuck in My Future
I’ve got my yarn and pattern picked out for the Selfish Sweater KAL that starts on Friday. I finally decided on knitting another Chuck in bright pink. I was trying to pick out what color to use, and I realized that I don’t have many pink sweaters. Pink is a color that I sometimes struggle…
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Tempting Yarn
I don’t think I’ll ever be a serious stasher. I’ve had this yarn to make a second version of my colorwork hat sitting on my desk for a while now, and it’s so tempting to just drop everything and cast on! I usually have a few projects worth of yarn hiding around my apartment, but…
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Call Me Crazy
After declaring myself too busy to knit any Christmas presents (and then starting one anyway), I somehow found myself ordering Quince & Co. Finch in red and white to knit myself The Perfect Christmas Jumper by Susan Crawford. I don’t know why I thought that I had the spare time to knit myself a Christmas…
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Tis the Season for Orange Yarn
I didn’t go to Rhinebeck, but my friend Monica did, and I asked her to pick me up a skein of Miss Babs Yowza. I told her to surprise me with the color, and she clearly knows my taste! The color is called French Marigold. That same weekend was the Hazel Knits trunk show at the…