Following my rant about sugar’n cream cotton I ordered some from ebay and it turned up today. I got it from a US seller who had multiple lots in “buy it now” or just up for auction. It ended up costing me AUD$23 (incl postage) for 8 x 50g skeins, which I thought was extremely [...]
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sugar’n cream
Posted in yarn on 1, August 2006 | 7 Comments »
the great cotton hunt
Posted in family, patterns, yarn on 31, July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend my mum came to Sydney to spend the weekend with me and my little family. She is also a knitter and we took the opportunity today to check out a couple of wool shops. On a recent post Belinda left a comment that mentioned a couple of shops in northern Sydney. I was quite [...]
RANT – missing out
Posted in yarn on 24, July 2006 | 4 Comments »
I would definitely consider myself one of the crowd. In relation to the online knitting and blogging community, I think that I pretty much fit in. In the last couple of months I have knitted a clapotis, a sock, a washcloth and felted something. (These seem to be the most common things to do.) I [...]
ebay purchases
Posted in knitting, online shops, patterns, toys, yarn on 12, July 2006 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday the mailman delivered me some goodies that I recently bought on ebay. I have been on the lookout for the ABC knits book, as I was inspired by Jemima by Knitting Box. An ebay seller (wool cottage maintained by woolly4413) had an old library book version and I got it for [...]
knitted washcloth
Posted in books, knitting, yarn on 4, July 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I got some great pakucho 100% organic Peruvian cotton at the recent craft show from ecoyarns. I got a pack of 3 yarns that had basic patterns for wash cloths. The patterns were pretty boring garter and moss stitch squares. I have also recently acquired a great knitting book called
Weekend Knitting by [...]
balls of wool
Posted in links, sites, blogs, online shops, yarn on 1, July 2006 | 2 Comments »
Being an Australian knitter it has taken me a little while to get used to some new terms. Until listening to some international knitting podcasts I was blissfully unaware. I knit with “wool” regarless of the blend, which (I have learnt) is commonly known as yarn. And yarn is not always in “balls” but sometimes [...]
so many good things
Posted in knitting, links, sites, blogs, patterns, yarn on 17, June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
At work my shift consists of a few hours controlling at the console dispersed by breaks where I am required to do nothing at all. They are usually half to an hour long. I generally play on the internet, read or do a soduku puzzle. My time on the internet is spent surfing craft sites [...]
the sock dilemma
Posted in knitting, links, sites, blogs, yarn on 13, June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I bought a ball of Opal self striping yarn in lollipop months ago. The picture indicates the colour of yarn I got, not unfortunately my finished piece. The problem I have is I still can’t decide on a pattern. There are so many out there. Lots of sock patterns have been mentioned on podcasts and [...]
On my needles – clapotis
Posted in knitting, online shops, patterns, yarn on 12, June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This seems to be a common craft topic. Well at least it is a good starting point.
At the moment I am knitting a clapotis scarf. I first came accross this pattern from knitty.com on the knitnbitch blog. It is a bias drop-stitch wrap.
I bought a ball of Jo Sharp Silkroad Aran Tweed in wintergreen. I [...]
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