23 March, 2009

Spring has Sprung

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Weigh in:
Coggie:
Finished - Clapotis
Wearing the clapotis (My MIL)
Started: swiss cheese scarf

Opening of Swap Box: Thank you AnitaT!

Bams:
Still going: CPH
Finished: Shur'tagal for mom

Started: Shur'tagal for Herself, Lace

Sharing of Swap Box: Thank you Slackerella!

Fiber Exercise:
Bams: Brown alpaca Finished, Dyed alpaca from Knitamaniac. Miss Piggy
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Coggie: Learned Navajo Ply on Polypay. Spun Beginner wool with smaller bobbins. Beginners wool and polypay

You’ve just been schooled: More Info on Bams Blog
Hog Island: Very Lofty
Icelandic: Prep show, Flicker brush. Separation of Long fiber and undercoat.

Look what I found:
Craftycavy’s Ribby, Ribby Yo by Cathy Carron

Recipes:
Road trip: Lots of Pictures on Coggies Blog
Indianapolis: Broad ripple knits (Mass Ave) - Mgr Karin- Bought 3 skeins of Malabrigo
Louisville: Sophie’s Fine Yarn Shoppe: Owner Barb: The women from Knit night bought a magnet.
Outside Nashville: Bliss yarns, met up with Sallyswor of Ravelry- bought a few magazines
Then into Ft Benning area.
Atlanta: Knitch: Owner Kim, Nell and the group there. Bought Cashgora, Blue moon fiber arts Raven STR, Locally dyed BFL Fiber, another magnet.
Yarn Spinners Tale Podcast
Woodstock: The Whole Nine Yarns: Owner Debi Light, look for her booth at Stitches South- I picked up the rest of the Noro for the Jared flood scarf. (Frogged the next day)
Smokey MTN Spinnery, Vicuna fiber. Bought Shetland and Alpaca plus hand made soaps
Frankfort: The Woolery, Chris and Nancy Miller, Owners. Wow is this store going to be fun. They sell babe stuff. I got my smaller bobbins and my plying bobbin
Dinner with AnitaT, Her Husband Dave and Paula…What a kick!!
Ft Wayne, Knitting Off Broadway
ThreadBear- Bought 3 skeins of malabrigo sock for a shawl, 6 skeins of artesnal for a shell out of curvy knits.
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Hope the Chief heals fast!




Coggie's Daughters bedroom:




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Our exercise:
Bams: Exercised 5x last week YAY!!
Coggie: Lost 5# Needs to loose 100 more


On the menu for this month:
StitchNPitch Lansing, Tickets on Sale $30- Contact ThreadBear (866) 939-BEAR (2327)
Spinning Loft: Saturday March 28th

Gadget Corner:
GPS- Find all the spots you need to get to when you need to get to them.