What a Week!

January 21, 2011 by Holly · Leave a Comment

Monday I knew, just knee that my spinning wheel was going to come in. Low and behold it did. But we have a postal contractor which means he drives his personal car to deliver our mail. Spinning wheel+Big box+Toyota Camry=A slip in the mailbox to pick it up. Tuesday comes and Steve was nice enough [...]

Names Allude Me

January 17, 2011 by Holly · Leave a Comment

For 5 years I have been an avid knitter. I always have something on my needles. Right now I have a sweater for myself and a shawl for my boss. Totally different in their type of product as the shawl is made from fingering lace yarn on size 3 needles and my sweater is of [...]

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Highland Handmades

December 11, 2010 by Holly · Leave a Comment

From Yarn to roving to spindles Highland Handmades has it all. I’m in love with Marooned but since you want to see some yarn still for sale check out Lincoln a handspun joy in shades of blues and browns and rust. Can you see the scarf for a special man? I’m thinking the Irish Hiking [...]

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Wolfe Farms

October 11, 2010 by Holly · Leave a Comment

Where can you find it all? Wolfe Farms of course. Dawn and I started talking quite some time ago. She was interested in all things yarny. She had entered and won a giveaway I had for a drop spindle. Since that time she has moved on to quite bigger and better things. With promises of [...]

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Just Beware

May 25, 2010 by Holly · 12 Comments

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I was sent a little note with some news to beware. Since many of you are still searching and coming here I feel I should pass it on. Violet is reintroducing herself as PeonyBlue at least on Ravelry. So much for disappearing and moving on to better things. Please just be careful that you don’t [...]

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Violet Seriously?

May 20, 2010 by Holly · 7 Comments

Lime and Violet call it quits? So supposedly Violet’s getting death threats. I’m not going to say it didn’t happen. I will say I certainly didn’t send them and that there are crazy people out there because I got some too over the last few months. But instead of saying Poor Me, I fought back. [...]

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Knitting Goddesses

April 25, 2010 by Holly · Leave a Comment

I have a question. When you join a yarn club what are your expectations? Do you think your product should come on time and you should receive what you paid for? I am overwhelmed by the response my little posts about the Intention Yarn Clubs has gotten. I’m shocked that we were called horrible drama [...]

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