Tag: Yarn
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Madrona Loot!
Last weekend was the Madrona Fiber Arts Retreat in Tacoma. Surprisingly, I never went when I was in college and only live a few miles away from the retreat, but this year I decided to go and do a little shopping. I didn’t let myself go too crazy because I was meeting up with my…
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Birthday Yarn!
Today is my 23rd birthday, and I treated myself to some yarn to make myself a new winter hat. I’ve put myself on a selfish-yarn diet so I’ve been trying to not buy yarn for projects for myself because I need to use up more of my stash and/or focus on Christmas knits, but it’s…
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New Pink Yarn
There was a raffle at Knit Fit, and I won a sweater’s worth of yarn! It’s Skacel’s Alpaca Seta which is an alpaca, silk, and nylon blend. It’s too drapey for any of the ideas I have in my sketch book, but I’ve already come up with a few new ideas. I’m thinking of making…
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Yarn!
I went out and bought yarn to finish my green and yellow sweater this weekend, but while I didn’t have that to work on, I frogged my blue cardigan with red scallops. I cast on to start that cardigan over, but it will have to wait until I finish my crocheted sweater. When I was…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
I told myself no more buying yarn until I worked through some of the projects I had planned, but I decided to break the rules and buy myself some birthday yarn. I absolutely adore Plymouth Baby Alpaca Grande, but it’s kind of pricey so I rarely buy it and I only make small things out…