I’ve been knitting my little fingers to the bone to get ready for a whole series of knitting workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton starting next week. When we moved 1 1/2 years ago, you may recall that all
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I’ll be teaching knitting workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton this summer at the end of July and beginning of August. In order to offer their customers the right mix of classes, RCY has asked them for feedback. What
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I’m slogging away on my Rockin’ Sock Club stranded socks. I say “slogging” only because I’m finding the knitting awkward and I really need to do something about my technique. My hands cramp up and I’m having a hard time
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Our trip to New York was wonderful. I ate up every minute of it and so enjoyed wandering through the various neighbourhoods. Absolutely no knitting was accomplished on the trip because I hardly sat down, but I did manage to
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I bought a pair of machine-knit socks made with Regia’s Kaffe Fassett Exotic, colourway Ember. I popped into Dressew today to see if they’ve had a new shipment of discount yarn. I’m sure everyone on the lower mainland is familiar
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I’m trying to teach my son to not always have an excuse for when something goes wrong. I emphasize accepting responsibility for one’s own actions. I need to model that behavior. Sooo … it’s been a while, and I apologize
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Happy belated Canada Day! We had a nice relaxing family time that included a play in the park and grilled salmon for dinner. From July 26 to August 2 River City Yarns in Edmonton is sponsoring a whole series of
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The workshops at River City Yarns in Edmonton were wonderful. I had great fun teaching them – I really enjoy sharing with other knitters. I think my new favourite workshop is Making Marvelous Mittens. Cynthia at River City Yarns gave
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If you’re in the Edmonton area next week, come join me for a few workshops at lys, River City Yarns. Their schedule and registration information is here. I’m teaching Strategies for Working with Self-Patterning Sock Yarns – one of my favourite workshops.
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With all the wonderful hand-painted yarns out there these days, I wanted to show you that Bee’s Knees Knits patterns look equally wonderful knit up in them as opposed to self-patterning yarns. Painted yarns that stripe a bit are the most
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Three Bags Full, one of my LYSs is now carrying my patterns!  Three Bags Full specializes in gorgeous natural fibres, often hand dyed.  They don’t carry the conventional self-patterning yarns and therefore weren’t carrying my patterns to date.  I convinced them
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As I mentioned before, my friend Marje took the morning off of work to drive me to a couple of yarn shops in Calgary. It sure beat taking the bus around town! On Thursday morning we visited Knit One Chat
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