Posted by Underground Crafter on November 4, 2012 |
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Perhaps this post should be subtitled,”How the mighty have fallen.” After doing some supersonic stashbusting in September, I had an unusually high level of stash acquisition in October. My accomplishments I used about 1,020 yards of stash yarn for various projects, including a square and a hat for charity, three ripple projects made as samples for [...]
Tags: berroco, berroco ultra alpaca, blue sky alpacas, blue sky alpacas multi cotton, blue sky alpacas worsted cotton, destash, knitty city, north jersey fiber arts festival, nyc yarn crawl 2012, red heart super saver, revelations of a delusional knitter, ripple mania CAL, surmount the stash 2012, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on October 7, 2012 |
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I scheduled today’s post because I’m teaching at the fourth annual North Jersey Fiber Arts Festival. I had a great time last year, so I decided to return this year. I taught a class on Friday and I’ll be teaching another one today. The festival is in Ridgewood, New Jersey and I can get there [...]
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Posted by Underground Crafter on September 15, 2012 |
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Although I’ve been participating in Surmount the Stash all year and have been fairly good about avoiding new yarn purchases, the siren song of my favorite local yarn shop, Knitty City, began calling to me last night. The start of my yarn craving was receiving an email update about another local yarn shop that is closing [...]
Tags: 100 aran patterns, 1000 knitting patterns book, 23 day frugal living challenge, finger lakes fiber arts festival, frugally sustainable, japanese, knitting, knitting patterns 500, knitty city, retail therapy, stitch guide, stitch symbols, surmount the stash 2012, sweet georgia yarns, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on June 29, 2012 |
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After successfully avoiding yarn shopping and extraneous crafty purchases for most of this year, June was filled with hauls of all kinds! I decided to write up one giant post with all of my purchases during the month. Year of Projects preparation If you’ve been following the chatter in the Come Blog-A-Long group on [...]
Tags: 2012 holiday stashdown challenge, a swap a month, alasdair post-quinn, britt-marie christoffersson, brown sheep company, brown sheep lamb's pride worsted, bruges crochet, cheryl brunette, classic elite classic one fifty, classic elite yarn, clover soft touch crochet hook, come blog a long, complete photo guide to crochet, cooperative press, domino knitting, dritz loop turner, extreme double knitting, frog tree alpaca, frog tree yarn, galler yarns, galler yarns parisian cotton, holiday crafting, hurt book sale, inox needles, interweave press, knit-a-way, knitty city, lily chin, madelinetosh, madelinetosh tosh sport, maggie casey, pop knitting: bold motifs using color and stitch, power cables, ravelry, sparkling wave scarf, start spinning, susan bates silvalume, susan bates silvalume handi tool, sweater 101: how to plan sweaters that fit... and organize your knitting life at the same time, tatyana mirer, vivian hoxbro, yarn haul, yarn swap, year of projects
Posted by Underground Crafter on May 26, 2012 |
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One of the yarn shops I planned to visit during my trip to Pennsylvania was out of business, so I decided to add another shop to my list. Since I was staying just one train stop away from Swarthmore, I planned a visit to Finely a Knitting Party on my way back to New York. The [...]
Tags: brown sheep company, classic elite yarn, crystal palace yarn, finely a knitting party, lys, mushishi, pennsylvania, plymouth yarn, review, sioux city soap, swarthmore, udderly smooth, yarn, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on May 24, 2012 |
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View Larger Map Last week, I took my dream vacation and spent a few days at Pendle Hill in Wallingford, PA. The main purpose of the vacation was to relax, enjoy the silence, (wait, what is this? some kind of retro pop music playlist??), spend some time outdoors, and live an unscheduled life, and what’s [...]
Tags: addi swing, araucania, berroco, bijou basin ranch, brooklyn tweed, crochet, crochet liberation front headquarters group, crochet-friendly LYS, ella rae, ella rae lace merino, google maps, hop stop, knitty city, local yarn shop, loop, lys, malabrigo, merino wool, mountain meadow wool mill, nangellini gallery, no two snowflakes, no two snowflakes nancy's hair, o-wool, pendle hill, philadelphia, review, rosie's yarn cellar, sheep shop yarn company, sheep shop yarn company sheep 2, sophie's yarns, spinning yarn, spud and chloe, wallingford, yarn, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on May 7, 2012 |
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I surprised myself this weekend with the sudden desire to buy yarn. I had planned to make a bag for my mom for Mother’s Day, but I had a sudden urge to make her a pineapple shawl on Saturday afternoon. I looked through my stash, but I didn’t have enough of any light weight yarn [...]
Tags: crochet, knitty city, lys, madelinetosh, madelinetosh tosh light merino, pineapple, shawl, shawl pin, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on February 4, 2012 |
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Although January was a hectic month, I did manage to reduce my stash a wee bit. My accomplishments: I sorted through my crochet and knitting magazines, and donated 50 to a local guild. I completed my secret project, which used up 8 skeins of yarn. I went to my favorite local yarn shop with my [...]
Tags: big apple knitters' guild, blanket, certified knitting instructors program, craft yarn council, cyc, destash, geaux saints, irish rose, knitty city, lys, magazines, new orleans saints, queens library, ravelry, revelations of a delusional knitter, surmount the stash 2012, yarn, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on January 10, 2012 |
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My favorite local yarn shop, Knitty City, celebrated their sixth anniversary with a sale (and some great red velvet cake) on Saturday. I had some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket, so I decided to stop by. I am trying to Surmount the Stash in 2012, and I’m sure to shop at Vogue [...]
Tags: amy r. singer, big girl knits: 25 big bold projects shaped for real women with real curves, birthday, cake, crochet, jillian moreno, knitting, knitty city, lys, mimosa, revelations of a delusional knitter, sivia harding, surmount the stash 2012, tulip etimo, vogue knitting live, wendy shanker, yarn haul
Posted by Underground Crafter on November 26, 2011 |
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This is my first uninterrupted long weekend in quite a while (since I usually teach on Saturdays). I successfully avoided the Black Friday madness yesterday by staying home most of the day crocheting, inventing new turkey leftover dishes, and making the best batch of brownies ever. MC and I have been avoiding high fructose corn [...]
Tags: alpaca, american express, baking, brownies, bruce weinstein, cascade 220 superwash, cascade yarns, cooking, crochet, endangered species chocolate, fairway, galler yarns, greenflea, knitty city, laytner's linen, nestle, sandnes garn, sandnes garn mandarin petit, small business saturday, sunspire, ultimate brownie book, yarn haul
