I’m exhausted. Buckle your seatbelts – it was quite the Adventure!
I’m just back from an action packed weekend that involved:
1. taking the sock on a tour of the Niagara region
2. exploring a new yarn store in Fonthill, ON
3. visiting the FrogPond
4. hunting down hairy cows (figuratively not literally)
5. chasing rainbows
6. wrestling tin lizards
7. becoming obsessed with an aran sweater in the Wrath of the Gods
8. planning to move to Iceland
9. substituting ordering an Icelandic Fleece when I realized how far the commute was to work
10. getting soaked by Mother Nature (who definately had a case of severe PMS)
11. attending Stitch ‘n Pitch.
Category: Knit
I have been very lazy about posting lately. While I am inspired by some of
the projects I have on the go, somehow getting them onto the blog feels like
stirring cement with a straw. So Much Effort.
But I shall make an effort to bring you up to date. Take …
I spent the weekend immersed in fibre (so what else new…). This time I had a drop spindle class from Lorraine Smith who write Spinner’s Quarterly. Despite their recent flood, The Purple Purl hosted the class and as always it was an amazing class. Lorraine is a wonderful …
Since I have occasionally been known to
gloat over my
brilliance, I must with all hubris admit when I screw up. And boy this was a
record setting screw up.
I have no idea how I let it get this far without noticing it. I can’t even
blame wine as I’ve …
Happy Solstice and Welcome to Summer!
It was such a long
hard winter that no one in Toronto would dare complain. Although I’m sure we
will before the summer is over!
I joined the Summer
of Socks ’08 challenge because for some reason, even though I keep
accumulating sock …
Well there was very little sunshine on the long weekend but it really helped me focus and get some serious work done. I posted in the last blog entry about the yummy yarn I bought for Christmas presents. You didn’t really think I would wait to cast on did …
There hasn’t been much content posted lately nor even much knitting chez Stashaholic. I’m working on a project which is taking between 50-60 hrs/week and will likely continue to do that for the next month.
I was so tired this week that I told my boss that I wasn’t coming in today and he said “ok”. So I now have a 4 day weekend (it’s Victoria Day weekend aka May two-four (think a two-four of beer as we say in Canada). So I decided what better place to spend my day than at the Purl.
I had an absolutely wonderful weekend. Toronto Hookups went for our fourth
annual retreat to Canterbury Hills
in Ancaster, Ontario. I look forward to this every year because
a) it involves wine women and wool
b) calories don’t count
c) commemorative yarn buying does not count towards budgets/resolutions to to
buy …
Warning – lots of Yarn PRon and photos below!
I spent an absolutely decadent day…well, for me anyway……
First on the agenda was to face the laundry monster. I had been neglecting the pile
which somehow managed to grow so high it filled not one but two laundry baskets
to the unheard of height where I almost needed grappling …