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A little yarn tasting …

What better way to start the week than a little yarn tasting? When I think of one, I’ll let you know. For now however, I’d like to start a little something I call Sip and Knit! Yes, we’ll be tasting a new yarn, but also pairing it with a beverage suitable for that yarn as well. Yes, there’s a strong likelihood that that beverage will include alcohol, but what better way to enjoy a nice yarn than with a nice drink as well? 😉 Well, the yarn we’re tasting this week is called Sweater, by Spud and Chloe. You […]

Round and round we go …

My apologies to everyone who tried to view this in the last few days. My site was down due to an upgrade of the hard drives by my ISP, but unfortunately, the hard drive with my website on it had some issues and needed a recovery from backup files. As a result, my website along with some others were unavailable all weekend. The good news is I’m back! Yeah! So now it’s time to March into spring … sorry, I had to! Even though I’ll be working on an unspringlike project. Remember the sweater that we started designing about […]

W.I.N.E. …

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 […]

Wool Is Not Enough …

Hi everybody! Yes, I’m still here. Sorry for the disappearance – I’ll put up a post about it soon. In the meantime, I have to tell you about my favorite new LYS – even though Sho calls it her VLYS (Very Little Yarn Shop). I’m talking about the kiosk in the Tinseltown Plaza in Vancouver called Wool Is Not Enough. Funnily enough, Anne and I heard mention of this shop last week when we were discussing the upcoming Yarn Harvest in the lower mainland with our Sunday knitting group. As I had done a post a couple of months […]

And the winner is …

Okay, so they say better late than never, and I’m going to stick with that for now ;-). In actuality, I did the draws for the winners of the needles on Sunday, but am just getting to the blog post today. Sorry, see my last post for my reasons (as lame as they are). Anyway, I have the winners of the needles, and the person who gets a donation made to a charity or non-profit organization of their choice in their name. The contest raised $116.58 and I will contribute the difference to make it an even $150.00. So […]