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Home again … for now! ;)

[Translate] Wow!! What an amazing 2 months it has been! If you haven’t been following my Facebook or Instagram posts, you might not know that I have been traveling across the UK and Europe for the last 2 months! It was my intention to be blogging regularly as I visited yarn shops and shows etc, but let’s just say I was overwhelmed by all the experiences I had while over there! I did manage a few posts, but after Woollinn (which I will have to add to), I was entirely too busy to post regularly. I did do “mini” […]

Getting Better at Knitting

[Translate] Like most things in life, the secret to becoming better at knitting is to embrace the social aspect of it and to congregate with other knitters!When I learned to knit I didn’t have the benefit of YouTube and numerous knitting groups to choose from. Yes, I came from the school of hard knocks and have frogged many a project and made many, many, mistakes. While I’d like to think that helped make me a better knitter, I can truly say that I saw a real difference in my knitting IQ growth once I stared to knit with other […]

#wkipwithme

[Translate] Just one more sleep until the WKIP day event! Yes, we’ll be downtown by the Olympic Torch from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm for 3 hours of solid knitting/crocheting fun!! IN PUBLIC!!!! Hopefully you’re coming! If you are, I’d love it if you could let me know at either of these links below … WKIP Close Knit Community Close Knit Community Facebook If we get 75 people there, I will personally donate a sweaters’ worth of yarn as a giveaway! That’s right, 10 x 100g skeins of worsted weight yarn! It’s more than enough for a sweater for […]

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It’s Time! …

[Translate] For what you ask? Well, for a lot of things! The first and most important is to let you know about the new look of my website. Okay, yeah, I guess you’ve seen it already. Actually, if you followed a link to this post directly, then you might not have. So after you read this one, click on the logo at the top and have a look around. I’d love any feedback on what you think – all comments are appreciated and I will use them to fine tune things. 🙂 It seems like I couldn’t have timed […]

Stitches West Review – Part 4

[Translate] I’m sure you’ve decided you’re going to make a valiant effort to attend Stitches West next year – or at least another major knitting event near you. Even still, I’m going to post once more about Stitches West. With that, there is still a lot that I won’t get to tell you about and I will be doing feature posts on specific vendors in the near future. However, I haven’t told you about all the phenomenal classes at all levels of knitting/crocheting that are offered at Stitches West and taught by the best instructors in the industry. I […]