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Grey Saturday…Warm Colourways

Posted in Washington D.C., claudia hand painted yarn, hand dyed yarn, knitting, sundara yarn, yarn on 24 March, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Hypothetical Situation: You have $60.00 to spend on yarn. What do you buy?The answers (if you’re me, and, like me, you have a “sweet tooth”):
1) A skein of Sundara Yarns’ luscious Cherry Blossom sock yarn. I live in Washington, DC, so this is a must-have, right? (Oh, Purly, puhleeeze tell me I can still get [...]

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Not About the Socks

Posted in hand dyed yarn, hand spun yarn, knitting, lady eleanor stole, socks, spinning, swatch on 6 March, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Remember these socks?
No? Well, if you’re interested, you can look here. If not, don’t worry…this isn’t about the (warm, cozy, comfy) socks. It’s about that lovely Corriedale roving.
Oh, those colors! They were like Italian water ice and gelato. Raspberry, blueberry, grape…Transluscent, saturated colors. I dyed the top/roving with Karida. It was our first hand-dyed [...]

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I’m in Yarnival! (and so is my husband…)

Posted in Washington D.C., Yarnival, hand dyed yarn, hand painted yarn, knitting, spinning, yarn on 15 November, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

I woke up to the nicest surprise today: Cara wrote to tell me that Knit*Six appears in the November issue of Yarnival! AND my husband, Chris, was named “Hunk of the Month.”
He’s had quite a good month in terms of fame: He played with Brooks Tegler at Blues Alley (a world-famous jazz club in Georgetown), [...]

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