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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Names
Naming a yarn is tricky business. Most of my yarns names have some link to Scotland because it's where I have lived for almost all my life. There are some wonderful words like scunner and glaekit and fouter and fankle, but they all have slightly negative meanings. This is especially true of fankle. This is [...]
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Announcement
As you may or may not know the current Yarn Yard Clubs (apart from the Lace Club) have come to an end with just a couple more mailings to go.
In their place there will be two new clubs and sign-ups for these will begin on the 1st of September (which is Tuesday next week).
These will [...]
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Treats
Just a few little treats.
toddy 1190
toddy 1191
toddy 1192
BFL 1198
Merino silk 1201
And there are others too, including the long awaited return of 5 T probably jane.
Have fun, n.
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The Shop
Before I went to Broughton at the weekend I took the shop offline. I took all the stock with me and I didn't want to risk an online customer and a Broughton customer buying the same item at the same time. I have recounted all the stock and am now putting yarn back on the [...]
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Freecycle
Every so often, when we have stuff to get rid of, stuff which is too good to throw out, which would do "a turn", we rejoin Freecycle. I'm not a member all the time (the emails can get a bit overwhelming) but it has never failed us.
In the last ten days I have offered two [...]
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£103
Didn't Ruth do well?
She raised £103 for MSF with two of the donations coming in while she was actually on the Plinth.
She has blogged about it here, and Jane has done likewise here.
p/hop is going to be at Fibrefest in Devon at the weekend, and at iKnit in September, so I have been thinking that [...]
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£103
Didn't Ruth do well?
She raised £103 for MSF with two of the donations coming in while she was actually on the Plinth.
She has blogged about it here, and Jane has done likewise here.
p/hop is going to be at Fibrefest in Devon at the weekend, and at iKnit in September, so I have been thinking that [...]
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Tomorrow on the Plinth
Tomorrow, Ruth will be on the Plinth in Trafalgar Square. She'll be there from 09.00 to 10.00 and she will be sewing together squares to make a blanket which will be raffled for Medecins Sans Frontieres at iKnit in September as part of the p/hop project.
Pete from MSF will be at the foot of the [...]
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Moody
A dark and moody update this week. I have been thinking about Bloke Socks, and socks to be worn with jeans and muddy gardening clothes.
So I give you Croft.
1177
and
1188
and bonny
1178
and
1179
Definitely boy-stuff, I think.
n
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12 Noon