13°C – showers

The Yarner October 14, 2010
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I wrote up my first pattern and uploaded it on Ravelry. I didn’t expect quite so many people to be interested in it. I’m amazed and stoked and a little overwhelmed by the response. Wow. I can’t wait to see it finished on someone else’s project page. How exciting. :o)

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The Yarner October 7, 2010
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The knitniters threw a bit of a goodbye party today for Sarah who’s moving to Toronto. There were lots of goodies, gifts, hugs, and even a bit of bubbly. Good thing there’s blogs and Ravelry for staying in touch. *hint, hint*

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Toronto

The Yarner October 2, 2010
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We found an excellent breakfast place, called ‘Lunch Box’. A good food, no frills place, right around the corner, reasonably priced, seems to be the locals’ choice. If you’re staying in the High Park area, give it a try.

We then marched to and thru all the yarn stores in the downtown area, and I’ll be bringing home looooots of loot. Also did the touristy thingy thru Chinatown:

dried shrimp

Lunch was a very yummy affair at ‘The Grilled Cheese’ in Kensington Market. Conveniently close to ‘Lettuce Knit‘, where we were told about ‘Nuit Blanche‘ that night and decided to share in the fun. At The Knit Cafe, they were preparing this fantastic knit art installation

knit installation

and invited us for an all night knit night. While we didn’t stay all night (we had some plans for the next day after all), we joined them from 7pm to around 10:30. And bought yarn of course. *hrmp*

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Dentist

The Yarner September 29, 2010
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Never fun, but nothing bad either, just general teeth cleaning.

To reward myself I went to spinning night, though. It’s been something like a year since I had my spindle out. I was surprised how well it went. I spun up quite a bit of undyed merino. No clue yet what I’m going to do with it.

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The Yarner September 28, 2010
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Finished the sample mittens last weekend and finally got around to taking some pictures. Yay!

mittens

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The Yarner September 22, 2010
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I’ve finally got my new PR card. Had to get up early to pick it up. I accompanied the tiger on his way to work for part of the way. Just when I was leaving the bus downtown I ran into a neighbor who was headed into the same general direction. Nice chat. :o)

Afterwards I treated myself to some breakfast and a huge caramel coretto at the Second Cup and then headed over to KnitKnackers for some Araucania Ruca I’ve been coveting for some time. Yummy stuff that.

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Interconnections

The Yarner September 14, 2010
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I’m always amused and unaccountably surprised when people I met in areas totally unrelated to any kind of fiber activity, suddenly pop up on ravelry. The intarwebz – they’z cool.

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Revelling

The Yarner September 11, 2010
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in the scrumptiousness that is Fiberfest.

display

These two were guarding the door:

alpacas

But I managed to sneak past them with my loot:

skeins of yarn

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The Yarner September 9, 2010
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Couldn’t wait.

Had to cast on the sample mittens. Aaaah, illicit knitting time. How I love thee.

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I agreed to knit sample mittens for a designer

The Yarner September 8, 2010
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… and the yarn arrived today. It is KnitPicks Felici Boardwalk. Very funky. And unexpectedly soft and snuggly.

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