This is the one where I frolicked.......and took zero photos. Wah, wah. Insert face palm. I am a bad blogger. I am currently on the Executive for the Toronto Knitters Guild and did have a small hand in organizing the social media/podcaster area for this event, plus I am also a volunteer so I did feel a bit pulled in various directions. Luckily I had the foresight not to sign up for a class on the Saturday. I've said this before but I haven't felt a strong pull to buy yarn lately. I've mostly ...
Enabling
Yarns of March: Stash Management Update
Sooooooo....a lot of fingering weight yarn has come into my house in recent weeks. How is that working with my goal of ending the year with 20 less skeins of fingering weight yarn? Thanks for asking. It's not working so well. Not badly, but a definite setback to my good start. Two of my stash managements goals for 2017 were to stash down the amount of fingering weight yarn (I defined a skein as approximately 100gr) and to stash up the quality of my yarn overall, treating myself to more indie ...
Updates – Rhinebeck, Periscope/Podcasting, Rib magazine, Generosity Games & more!
It's been awhile since I've posted here. I was wondering if I should bother to post this since Rhinebeck was now two months ago. I started this weeks ago and then got busy with some knitting related work for a friend. The best way to keep current with happenings all around me is through my Instagram feed. So I've decided to do quick updates on a bunch of things, that in the future will just be shorter posts. Rhinebeck Name Dropping & Stash Enhancement Periscope notes will be at the end ...
Toronto Knitters Frolic 2016 – Acquisitions
Last weekend was the annual Toronto Knitters Frolic, put on by the Toronto Knitters Guild. What an amazing event! As usual, the venue was the beautiful Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre. The international guest instructor this year was the delightful Bristol Ivy. We are blessed in Toronto to have a vast array of talented instructors living locally, and I felt fortunate to attend classes with Bristol, as well as Stephanie Pearl McPhee and Kate Atherley. I will talk about my classes in a later ...