Well, since this is a leap year, I get one more day in February to post about something I love in knitting. If you know me, you’ll know that I LOVE cables. As a matter of fact, cables are a large part of the reason I began knitting at all! I had cables in the back of my mind as a goal to achieve once I knew how to knit. I always like the way there seemed to be some rope twisting and turning on the top of a sweater. And when they moved from left to right along […]
Well, I have to admit that I’ve turned into a bit of a Facebook junkie over the last week. It happened by accident, but it’s one of those fortunate accidents. I was on the site and noticed that I had a few friend suggestions from FB. The surprising thing about it was that I had more that 50 mutual friends with the suggested people. So, totally against my usual character, I clicked add friend to the first ones that showed up. As soon as I did that, five more appeared. Needless to say, in a matter of about 2 […]
Continuing with things I love in the month of February, it’s time to post about one of the newer yarn shops in Vancouver – Wool Is Not Enough. Shoshana opened WINE last August in the Tinseltown Mall in Chinatown, Vancouver. The concept was very unique as the store – which she referred to as a Very Little Yarn Shop – was almost completely mobile and was set-up almost overnight. With the help of her husband she was able to convert a simple ordinary kiosk space into a very nifty yarn shop. You weren’t fooled by the size for very […]
Sorry to have not posted this week, I’ve been a little sick with a nasty infection. Fortunately, things are better now and I’ll be knitting again in no time. In the meantime, I have been put onto new website that they say is going to be the best thing to hit Social Media since Facebook! I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but I already like it quite a bit. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you need to check out Pinterest. It’s a site where you add pins – either from the internet or from […]
I have had a few people telling me that they can’t use the shopping cart to get the free pattern for Rastah that I gave away in yesterday’s post. So here it is in a PDF document. click the picture and save the document that comes up. If you don’t have a PDF reader, go to adobe.com and download your free reader there. Or click this link to get it – PDF Reader! Hugzzz 😎
