so eric politely suggested last week that maybe i should halt my sock yarn purchases until i had 5 pairs to show for my knitting…
since then i got a skein of cherry tree hill with a gift card (that’s not purchasing!!) and broke down and snapped up some sweet potato pie in cider moon’s shop [...]

ok, so only one of them was brown and none of them were tied, but they did have ’strings’ inside! 

this was my first package from my secret pal, and was it worth my patience!!!!  the two big hanks in the front are two different deep, dark shades of malabrigo, a fancy merino that [...]

* karen is a bad influence
* johari is one of the most ambitious first year knitters i know!
* ruth and amy are dropping in on saturday on their way through to ruth’s hometown – yarn crawl!!
* i heart
* melissa’s jars will go out soon along with some other little trinkets
* i have [...]

before

notice, also, the new shoes.
during

notice, of course, the knitting…
and after

i can’t wait to share with you all the other fiber-y goodness associated with me turning thirty, but there’s more celebrating yet to be done…
love and getting comfortable with my thirties, i think i’m going to be here a while,
sarah [...]

so, clapotis is done. i’ll try to get an action shot when i give it to the recipient and/or an outdoor shot at lunch, but here’s the thing, blocking… if you click on it, you’ll get to see the notes i added at flickr about the other funny things in the shot. it’s probably nowhere [...]