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String Quintet
Beth and I are about to board the plane for Las Vegas. I have a feeling there won't be much time to write when we land so I'm doing today's post early.Sunday morning I'm flying to San Diego for TNNA....
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Happy Saturday
Our flight to Vegas was great. Normally there is turbulence but the captain had the seat belt light off the whole way.There was some knitting on the plane.I chose Blue Bird (pattern purchased on...
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Yarn Shopping
Yesterday was a very long day. I was up at 4:30 to get ready to head to San Diego. It's a good thing I went to the airport early. A huge convention finished Saturday afternoon and there were hundreds...
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On the course
There is no knitting today. Beth and I spent the day on the golf course. We had a caddy which always makes for a fun day. He rakes the traps, marks our balls, finds the ball in the trees, cleans our...
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Home Again
It's been two long days. We visited different hotels yesterday including the Bellagio so that I could see the conservatory.They are ready for the Chinese New Year which is a big event in Vegas.At 6pm...
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Unpacking
Not my suitcase.This morning 11 huge boxes of madelinetosh arrived at the storage unit. Lynn inventoried the yarn and brought some to the store this afternoon.Here is twist light showing off a few of...
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Spring
I didn't do much knitting while away. Not that I really thought I was going to knit in Vegas. I'm happy with how the colour looks. There is a football game and many hockey games on right now so...
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Mark your calendar
 The planning has started for our booth. Knitters are busy making samples and orders have been placed to make sure that we have enough yarn. We'll share more information as the show approaches but I...
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Hush
Kim Hargreaves' latest magazine, Hush, arrived today.The Hush collection is the latest from Kim Hargreaves. It features 21 designs from tunic length cosy sweaters, fashionable mini skirts and fringes,...
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New Store Sample
There is a new sample in the store.Pattern: Kaersta Shawl (pattern purchased on Ravelry)Yarn: Mountain Colors Twizzlefoot - the sample is two skeins of Summerdale and one skein of Poppy Trail.Needles:...
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Finally Starting
We received a shipment of Malabrigo Rasta today with some colours that we haven't carried before.-Coronilla-Stitch Red-OxidoOne skein will make a great cowl.I'm finally ready to start knitting with my...
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Swatching
Mr. Canada Post brought in a box from Lynda this afternoon. Two new samples for the store.Pattern: Scaflock (purchased on Ravelry)Yarn: 2 skeins of tosh dk (we used Aura)Scaflock was inspired by one of...
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Sock Yarn
We have two new sock yarns from Regia. Both are self-patterning. The third edition of the popular Design Line by Arne & Carlos for Regia is now available. The two designers were inspired by...
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Bristol Ivy
The instructors for the Knitters Frolic have been announced. Bristol Ivy is the guest instructor this year. How exciting. Unfortunately I won't be able to take a class but I suggest that you do. See...
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Dreaming Colour
Ms. UPS just brought in a big box from Dream in Color. The new Jilly with Cashmere is awesome. There were also many mini-skeins of Classy. That means new colourways for the Technicolor Cowl. I don't...
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Food Drive
It's rearranging day in the store. We needed to find somewhere for the Technicolor Cowl kits. This snowballed into moving this and moving that. That lead me to marking down some kits.These awesome...
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My Favourite Sweater
It's been put away for awhile because the yarn was discontinued. I'd wear the sweater to work and customers kept asking for the yarn. I couldn't help them so the sweater has been resting. Well, that...
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Linen
I started my morning at home doing the dreaded A word. Accounting. All was going well until I couldn't find some very important pieces of paper. I rummaged and rummaged and finally found them in a very...
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Self-Striping
There will be new colours of Santorini coming from Classic Elite next week. We used 2 balls to make this easy to knit, easy to wear cowl. And the pattern is free in a Classic Elite Web-Letter.The...
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Rowan Loves....
We received more new magazines from Rowan yesterday including Rowan Loves....cotton lustre and all seasons cotton.Here at Rowan we are really proud of our beautiful yarns and in this brochure series we...
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