Posted in LYS, yarn, tagged yarn on June 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Minnesota Yarn Stores
How do I love thee?
Thou art more lovely than a summer day
And more numerous..
We Minnesotans take our summers pretty seriously since they are so short. I am loving summer here. I always forget exactly how lovely summer is. Each week different plants start blooming. Birds are courting and nesting like crazy. Mornings are [...]
Posted in LYS, WIP, socks, travel on June 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have been trying to maximize time with my family since I am only home for a short time. On Tuesday I head down to Dallas, Texas to see Kent and his family. Then he and I will head to San Antonio, Texas for NECC, an enormous educational technology conference. 20,000 some people [...]
Posted in LYS, WIP, socks, travel on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Kent and I had the great good fortune to spend a week in Australia. First we went to Cairns and spent two days and one night on a dive boat. We didn’t actually dive; we snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef. It was mind-blowingly amazing. If you ever get the chance, do [...]
Posted in LYS, queued on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Today I was reading The Yarnery blog and I see this cool scarf.
As I stared at it, I realized that it appears to be knit the long way across. As in, not many rows, but each row is three feet long!
That got me thinking a number of thoughts, such as…
What do you knit it [...]
Posted in LYS on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Seems so crazy that I am here visiting all these amazing yarn shops when I’m such a newbie knitter. By right, those of you back in Singapore should be the ones here. You’d make much better use of this great opportunity. The best I can do is to continue to shower you with photos of [...]
Posted in LYS on June 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday, Louise and I visited the Borealis Yarns in St. Paul. Here are a the photos.
Cherry Tree Hill
Sale Yarn Table
Bamboo
Lucy Neatby Yarn
Dream in Color Smooshy Sock Yarns
Posted in LYS on June 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
On Tuesday, wonderful Louise took me yarn shopping. The Twin Cities has a deliciously large quantity of yarn shops and I’ve been in very few of them.
Our first stop was the Double Ewe yarn shop out in Circle Pines, Minnesota. Kelly, the proprietor, is as friendly and helpful as you could ask, and her yarn [...]
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