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Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
Board: Knitters and the Fiber Arts
Reply to: #217817 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 11:19am
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Yay! I know you had talked about finishing ths sweater. I can't wait to see it:) I am taking the baby sruprise sweater class at unwind (LYS). I am looking forward to it:) Perhaps we will bump in to one another there:)

Idhunna
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
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Reply to: #217957 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 11:37am
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Is LYS the store downtown? If so, the person who helped me teaches a class there, so I am told. I am itching (not from the mohair) to go inside that store and see what they have. It's about 2:30 and it looks like I have about 4 more navy rows to go before I switch colors - next color -- one of my all time favorites - LODEN GREEN.

It is a simple rainbow stripe - I chose navy, loden, butterscotch, cardinal, and eggplant; in between each color four rows of off-white.

Do you know the hours for the store downtown? Are they regularly open?
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
Board: Knitters and the Fiber Arts
Reply to: #217963 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 12:01pm
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Quote I chose navy, loden, butterscotch, cardinal, and eggplant;


Now I really want to see a picture. It sounds great!

Knit Wit
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
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Reply to: #217963 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 5:07pm
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Sorry I didn't get back earlier. I took a half a personal day and had to make the most of it:) We went to the county assessor's office and got an exemption put on our property taxes that we should have been using for the past four years...but didn't know about; I got a haircut and eyebrow wax; and we went out for dinnner AND lunch, and cleaned out the garage for our neighborhood's clean-up day this weekend...I feel like I got a lot done.

LYS is chat speak for Local Yarn Shop. Our Yarn shop is Unwind Yarn Shop. The lasy that owns it is Vicki Hair, Was it Laura Arndt that helped you? SHe is teaching the class I am taking there, but there are several ladies who teach there.

I think Unwind has one of the bext selections of cascade yarns I have seen anywhere. She carries the most colors I have seen in one yarn shop. She also has lots of great natural fiber yarns stocked...silks, bamboo, hemp, cotton, even soy, I think.
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
Board: Knitters and the Fiber Arts
Reply to: #218123 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 5:16pm
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I must check it out. AND - when you are feeling up to a road trip, we should go to Morgantown where there is a fantastic yarn shop. As I recall the owner raises their own wool that's for sale in the shop.

I'm so bad, I didn't remember, but I think it might be Vicki. My cold has left my hearing a little muffled. I'd say she's maybe 30?

And now for the news ----- I have completed 4 rows of loden. Did you see the 2 pictures I posted earlier today?
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
Board: Knitters and the Fiber Arts
Reply to: #218127 by speedsquare
Apr 25, 2008 5:51pm
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I have to go look at them....I have a question for you ss, what blog do you use? Is it free? I have some things I need to be able to put on the internet for a project that I am working on. It's directions for cutting plastic bags to make plarn....and then links to all of the plastic bag patterns. I need a free web page or blog to post it on so that instead of distributing pages of patterns tomorrow at the Earth Day celebration, I am just giving out one half sheet of links.

I am going to look, right now:)
Re: I've restarted my 1st sweater!
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Reply to: #218149 by Idhunna
Apr 25, 2008 6:01pm
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I love all the yarn I got at this lys...in england while I was visiting.... sigh. I may need to go back just to buy more yarn...

(where's that collapsable duffle bag??)

night writer / romana