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Archive for September, 2009
$70 Tank
Sep 23rd
Do you ever get this? Someone you know (usually a nonknitter) comes up to you and says “wow, you must save a lot of money by knitting your own clothes.”
I get it pretty regularly. Happened to me last time I was visiting one of my cousins. Guess what my response was.
Absolutely! This tank only cost me about $70 and provided me with hours of entertainment.
I love seeing the look of shock come over their face.
WWSIP
Sep 14th
This Saturday is World Wide Spin In Public day. We will be meeting at the same place that we met for WWKIP, Teazer World Tea Market Downtown. Bring your spindles, wheels and fiber and spend the morning spinning with us. We will start spinning at 10:30 am. If you have never spun before we will have extra spindles so you can participate. We look forward to seeing you there!
Photo courtesy of Teaser World Tea Market
Photo courtesy of Velma's World
You can read more about spinning in public over on Velma’s World
Teazer World Tea Market
2405 Capitol St # 104
Fresno, CA 93721-2256
(559) 237-7037
What better way to spend a morning than sipping tea & spinning yarn.
ETA: We will be giving a fiber gift to everyone that comes out on Saturday!
One Day Wonders
Sep 10th
My niece went home with my sister on Monday & now I can’t stop knitting baby stuff. Isn’t she adorable!
Last night I cast on this little sweater. And by the end of the evening it was all knit up. I couldn’t believe how quickly it went.
The pattern is Inca-Dincadoo Cardigan from Luxury Yarn One Skein Wonders. The pattern calls for organic cotton, but I used this lovely bamboo yarn & some funky sparkly pink eyelash yarn instead. I love how it turned out.
This morning I got up & sewed up the seams. And tada, we have a sweater!
Now I need to go shopping for cute little buttons. Oh, and I am also casting on another sweater. This time I am using our sock yarn in Lizard Breath, which is also available in our sea cell & merino sock yarn. For reasons I probably shouldn’t share with the world, it reminds me of my sister & I absolutely have to knit it into a baby sweater for my niece.
