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Subscriber Giveaway

As a thank you to those of you who have shown your support of the upcoming show, I have a giveaway for you!!! There will be many more in the future, as the initial response from the news of the show at Stitches West was very encouraging! As a matter of fact, I have already received quite a few items to give away to viewers of the upcoming show! Some of these will be open for everyone, subscribers or not, and others will only be for subscribers. Just a little tease as to what some of these things are […]

Namaste!

First, to all my American friends and readers, I’d like to extend a Happy Fourth of July salutation. We just finished celebrating Canada Day on July 1st here and had a great time. Here’s hoping your celebrations are as much fun and safe as well! So back to knitting, I have some great news! There are 2 more prizes that have been added to the draw pool for the Indiegogo campaign to get the show going again. The ladies at Namaste have generously donated their newest bag, the Poppins, as a gift! Also, the folks at Skacel have donated […]

10 Ways Knitters will survive the zombie apocalypse …

So you now the drill, the zombie apocalypse is upon us and natural selection has started to weed out the weak from the strong. Have no fear though, as a knitter, you’ll definitely be one of the survivors as your non-knitting friends start to drop like flies. Why? Here’s my Top 10 ways for knitters to survive  the zombie apocalypse … You can dazzle the zombies with color while you make your escape … Just like holding up a red flag at a bull, you can bedazzle hungry zombies into forgetting about their lunch or dinner with the brilliantly […]

Travel time …

It’s actually amazing how much is going on in the world of knitting. Thankfully, we have the internet these days, so it’s easier to keep abreast of all the events that occur during the year. There are quite a few events that happen on the international stage that you’d have very little information about unless you knew about it directly. Now we have Google and finding those events is a lot easier. If you’re planning on taking a vacation this year or are traveling out of your neck of the woods, I recommend doing a quick search beforehand to […]

Chicago … part 3

Well, it’s almost been a week now since VKL Chicago and I’m still buzzing from the experience. To say it was great would be an understatement! I’ve told you about quite a bit that happened but I haven’t really mentioned the Marketplace! There were Two Floors of vendors displaying their ware for purchases. I wish I could have taken a picture of every booth and talked to everyone, but needless to say there wasn’t enough time for me to do that as well as everything I did. I did get to see every booth though. I can’t possibly report […]