Tag Archives: unwind yarns

Start-and-stop-itis

Socks that Rock

Question for the knitters out there: Are you often indecisive when it comes to a project? Even when you’re over the halfway point? That is what happened to me with my Argante shawl (yarn: Socks that Rock). I was loving the colours in the skein… look at this gorgeousness! And I was doing fine deciphering the lacy shawl bits. Then recently I looked at it and wasn’t crazy about how the yarn was working up. Besides being a variegated yarn, there were two things that were bothering me. (1) This odd pooling section. I liked the green and yellow pooling, Continue Reading »

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Crafty Mojo

Yarn-winding disaster

I’ve made substantial progress on my shawl! I am quite impressed with Argante and may even knit Gaenor. It would look quite gorgeous with my new Unwind Yarns. Unfortunately, today I have totally lost my crafty mojo. It’s not the inspiration, it’s the actual talent. So now I am avoiding my shawl for fear of killing it. I tried to wind two skeins of yarn today and look what happened to the second: That’s my poor Unwind Yarns skein of lovelyness. *sigh* I may have to bring it to knitting night on Monday to get some assistance. I really need Continue Reading »

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Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival

Horseshoe Bay Park

This weekend was the 11th Annual Gibsons Landing Fibre Arts Festival from August 19-21. I don’t think I’d ever been to Gibsons before. The town is technically on the main mass of British Columbia, but is considered the Sunshine Coast. The quickest way to get to Gibsons is by ferry, and the crossing is only 40 minutes. Chelle and I planned to get the noon ferry, but missed it by about 10-15 minutes. But that was okay, it gave us time to park the car, grab some coffee, get our tickets, and wander around a bit. We got the 1:35pm Continue Reading »

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