I took a break from it in the past few days, but until very recently I’ve been obsessed with Granny Squares. It’s been good practice, and also a great way to use up old stash – specifically bag lots of yarn from Goodwill. I had a whole bunch of scraps from sources like this. So [...]
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I have to say, as I approach my first Holiday Season as a crocheter and proto-knitter, I’m struggling a bit with veganism and yarn. I’ve been a vegan for more than 4 years, and I don’t buy wool – with the *possible* exception of second hand. However I really do like a good wool yarn. [...]
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Just a quickie – swamped by RL, as usual:
I’ve been teaching myself granny squares. I’ve read here and there on the ‘net that they’re addictive – and I can certainly attest to that. Currently, I’m trying to destash old yarn picked up from Goodwill way back, plus odds and ends left-overs, so I’m making squares [...]
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I had to go into town, so while I was there I hit up Tuesday Morning and Wally-World looking for budget-friendly yarn. I’m still a newbie, so I wasn’t looking for anything fine, just workable and practical yarn for a beginner.
Tuesday Morning was mostly a bust, ‘though there were two small packets of Bernat Organic [...]
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Found this browsing the web – looks to be a fabulous resource with pics, links, and more! ^_^ Woot!
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Well, at least a little bit. While both the yarn skeins I bought the other day were center-pull, I decided to roll up the Comfort one for practice, using this post over at Ariadne’s weblog as a guide. (I hear congratulations are in order over there, ya know.^_^) I had tremendous luck rolling my [...]
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Well, I finally got around to going to my first yarn shop in a very, very long time last week. Meant to blog about it between here and there, but life’s been busy….
Anyhoo, got a little late birthday pin money from my MIL, so off I went to hunt down my very own LYS:
And there [...]
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Vegan amoungst the leaves
Originally uploaded by staralee
So – next step – finding vegan fibers to work with. I’m guessing I need to stick to synthetic stuff like acrylic to begin with? I’ve fund a bunch of lovely handmade fiber for sale on the net, but nothing that a noob like me such probably touch [...]
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