Posts from January 2008

» Howdy from Texas!


So the other day, I put together a package to send off to my pen pal in Washington. It’s sort of embarrassing, because it wasn’t like it was a particularly exciting package. It was just letters. Lots of letters. I cleaned out my desk and my stationery chest up in the [...]

Posted on: January 28, 2008 by Liz | Tags: , , , | 1 comment

» Liz has a blonde moment while spinning and listening to vampire stories


I’ve been trying for the last week to convince myself to sit down and post. Inevitably, by the time I got home every night, I was either too busy, too exhausted, or too much of both to sit down and write about all the stuff I wanted to. I did, however, manage to [...]

Posted on: January 15, 2008 by Liz | Tags: , , , , , , | 3 comments

» cat in action


No, not that cat. That’s our Loki, sitting on my finished Cluaranach scarf. Silly cat. No, this Cat… Cat Bordhi, the clever, creative, think-outside-the-box creator of knitted shapes amazing and unusual. And functional. Yesterday’s class was focused on her new methods of sock design, found in her new book. [...]

Posted on: January 10, 2008 by Meg | Tags: , | 2 comments

» hello Long Beach!


Every year in January, the trade association for yarn shop owners, TNNA, holds its Spring yarn market in California. Usually it’s in San Diego, sometimes it’s elsewhere. This is an elsewhere year. I was originally scheduled to fly in today, Wednesday, arriving just in time for a class with Cat Bordhi this [...]

Posted on: January 09, 2008 by Meg | Tags: , , , | no comments

» A is for …


The first ABC along was in 2006, wherein participants posted, in alphabetical order, photos in their blogs of things that had meaning for them. Every two weeks the letter changed. I enjoyed reading them, but didn’t have a knitting blog then, so didn’t participate. This year I’ve joined. I’ve decided that [...]

Posted on: January 05, 2008 by Meg | Tags: | 1 comment

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