Category Archives: swaps

Raw fleece…Thanksgiving dinner wild kingdom…and, ooh…shiny!

Massive picture-heavy post!
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians today – I hope your day is full of turkey and family (for some) and sleep and rest (for the others). I personally spent last night sleeping at the hospital wired up to within an inch of my life for a sleep study to see if I’ve [...]

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Misbehaving…camera (tilt head 90 degrees)

Hey all – long time no write! Summer sucked me in and spit me back out again – I can’t believe September is already here – packing lunches and homework again. Neither of these two activities rates high on my list of favourties due to the amount of knitting time lost during a [...]

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Low fibre content…pretty pictures!

I am…well…ridiculously wrecked. See the date? That is the day I uploaded the photos to blogger…as opposed to TODAY which is the 18th of August.
The new job is kicking me in the rear. I can’t explain why. It isn’t far off what I was doing before…just…more.
Anyway – here is the loveliest [...]

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Thanks to SP10 – goodbye kitchen from hell – Hello startitis!

(insert usual bloggy excuses for lameness of recent blogs, lack of updating and general laziness. Done? Good…let’s move on…)
First up…recent acquisitions and mergers!

First of all, there was a serious destashing that involved handing off some really yummy yarn I knew I’d never get around to knitting, or it was really nice stuff [...]

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Its all about the love bay-bee!!!

I may have joined the dark side.
Well kind of. I spent my weekend teaching myself to crochet. Here’s the thing. I love to crochet – its fast and satisfying. I can finish a dishcloth in under an hour.
Here’s the other thing – I still hate how crochet looks. To me it all looks like variations [...]

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Thank you Elizabeth!!

The most fantabulous Elizabeth from Sydney NS has proven herself a terrific swap partner on her first foray into a knitter’s swap. Elizabeth and I were hooked up through the Knitter’s Coffee Swap.

Want proof of Elizabeth’s goodness? For one thing, she proved that in Nova Scotia, the coffee rocks…

As a point of information – the [...]

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Last prize…

…goes to the blogless Elizabeth in Syndey N.S.!!! Since Elizabeth is my delightful Coffee Swap partner she will be getting a grand package indeed!!!
Thanks to everyone who entered – not just for taking a chance but also for sticking around to read my ramblings and respond to my rants. It has been a wonderful year [...]

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Coffee swap questionnaire

Apparently I can’t resist a good swap – add caffeine and I’d pretty much sell my firstborn to participate!
1. Whole bean or ground? Ground please!
2. Fully-loaded or decaf? Either is terrific – not a big fan of bold coffees though
3. Regular or flavored? I love flavoured coffee…unfortunately it doesn’t like me. Guaranteed unhappy tummy if [...]

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SP10 – I’m a joiner!

Yep – I joined Secret Pal 10…mostly cause I like to get mail that isn’t a bill or flyer and cause its fun to buy stuff for people that could make them happy.
1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
Soft merinos, silk, alpaca…nothing scratchy (mohairs) — soft [...]

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Lots of news…none very interesting but pretty pictures ahead

I went kinda nuts with the camera this morning in preparation for el gigantico blog post about everything and my dog (okay I don’t have a dog so my three cats…2 1/2 really but more on that later). But first…some blog sustenance to energize the creative mind required to entertain all five or six of [...]

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