We are particularly blessed with talented fibre people in Vancouver.  We have great knitwear designers like Sivia Harding, Astor  and Carmen Craig-Martin.  Amazing technical editors like Knitty.com‘s Mandy Moore.  Technically brilliant knitting teachers like Jean Wong.  Gifted hand-painted yarn dyers like
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Just received a package in the mail containing yarn – yipee!  It’s called tvyarn and is handpainted by Jana of White Oak Studio. The colourways for her hand painted yarn are inspired by the shows she watches on television while
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Finished and successful – even the felting part didn’t cause me any problems.  They’re cute as a trio – it’s such a shame to split them up. Our Easter guests had fun with their little Easter egg hunt and the Schmeebot
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Easter is coming and I had this last minute idea to knit some bunnies for my little bunny and his cousins’ Easter baskets.  The Schmeebot bunny piqued my interest quite a while back and now I have a reason to
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In preparation for a little presentation to my Guild tomorrow night, I’m going through my swatches and notes for a workshop I teach, Strategies for Knitting with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns.  Some of my favourite stitch patterns to use with self-patterning
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