Almost ready to leave

for my knitters’ retreat. 16 women in an inn in the wilds of Quebec all weekend – that should be fun. Haven’t packed yet, but there’s a huge pile of stuff on the table downstairs. Color me exited.

I’ll try to write blog entries, but uploading them will have to wait til I’m back. There’s no innernet there.

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8C – cloudy


Dyeing workshop 2
Originally uploaded by hianja

It’s not raining this morning, but everything’s still wet. I’m hoping they’re wrong about those showers for today and tomorrow so I can finally stain the last section of fence.

In other news, Saturday held another fun road trip outing with the local stitch’n’bitchers. Learned a new technique in my second dyeing workshop, and the pic shows the results.

Oh, and new market bags are now up at buntart. Still sold for a good cause. And, dudes and dudettes –  Christmas is gonna be here faster than expected. Again. Just sayin’.

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Had a fabulous day out yesterday, a roadtrip with the Ottawa knitniters (the local stitch & bitch) to a Yarn and Music store in the country, with a breakfast stop at a pancake house (mniam). We had an all day class in dyeing wool – different yarns, different techniques. I’ll definitely have to try this out at home. But the best was, we had a blast together.

Here’s the tangible result:

dyed yarn

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Second spinning class went a bit better already. I’d been practicing all week and put together a fairly decent sampler yesterday, if I say so myself.

Oh, and I’m typing all this on a brand new Wave keyboard, courtesy of the tiger. It’s a dream to type on. Veeeeery comfy.

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