couple of suckers

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go visit john amato at www.juplife.com and tell him i will eventually finish his scarf. and just you guys wait ’til you get to hear the story of yarn yarn!

so yesterday, baby zoey and i hung out for a bit of niece/aunt-bonding.
then my sister arrived and announced that zoey had grown out of all winter hats and i don’t know if you know this, but we were having quite the freeze out in nw ohio, this weekend…
you’re darn right i did what any good [...]

i heart the spark-luh!
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yay for days with more ups than downs and instant gratification sparkliness!

can’t you just hear the banjos?

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this yarn was double stranded into a ball and needed to be wound single stranded for a customer. karen and i played duel-ing ballwinders and saved the day… special thanks to sara-bear for taking the [...]

(yes, katy, i used that word – that way – just to honk you off!)
here, in no particular order and without much real fanfare, are the treats i received this Christmas as they pertain to my knitting obsession:

2008 knitting pattern a day calendar, a quick knit book and “knitting girl” mints. 

an adorable “i [...]

my first yarn purchase of the new year (i made it five whopping days!  woo!):

also, no one can ever say i’m not a big dork.
ok, so this is sarah the procrastinator.  i have at least two other things i should really be working on, tonight.  but i knit this hat in its entirety, this evening.  [...]

in which eric saves the day

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my camera had been missing for almost three weeks and he delivered it to me this morning before he left for work. we’ll let him slide on the fact that the hiding spot had been the [...]

so this month begins the sock club at yarn haven, my haven.
i will lead the slew of sockstresses and sockmeisters into indie-dyed yarn spectacularness… starting with this:

this is Chewy Spaghetti’s Spaghettoni (sport-weight) in an exclusive colorway that Kris is calling Haven-ly. it may become a regular for her at some point in the future, [...]

last FO of 2007!

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i forgot a hat when we left for chicago, so yesterday afternoon i went down to loopy yarns and by the evening i had a toasty new blue hat! yay knitting skillz. it was a good thing, [...]