Mixed Tape: the trunk show

According to Google  a trunk show is an event in which vendors present merchandise directly to store personnel or customers at a retail location or another venue such as a hotel room, in this case it was a yarn store. Do Ewe Knit? in Westfield NJ to be exact. The venue was set to inspire us with designs from Stephen West and StevenBe. […]

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Yarn…

It’s never far from me. It’s a cold Saturday and I am in super duper lazy mode. I woke up, grabbed my touring cape and my MacBook and got back in the bed 😜 my daughter ordered breakfast for us and the chill factor is almost illegal. I am doing my normal browsing through my

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Flashback Friday

I had all intentions of doing a TBT (throwback Thursday) but Thursday threw me around like long lost Ragedy Ann doll. So Flashback Friday it is,okay? I joined a photo a day challenge on Instagram. Wait you don’t know what that is? Well there is a calendar where each day you are told what to

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Getting to the HEART of the matter

I love hearts, so when I was asked about knitting a heart, the first thing I did was go searching for a pattern. I love the Internet, because you can find anything and everything. In my travels I came across this blog julieandtheknits and a post from 11/22/13. The pattern can be found here. The

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Let it snow

and I will keep knitting on my Touring Cape. It’s coming along nicely. I think what I like the most is this cape looks good on both sides. This project was the perfect companion during the Super Bowl…I didn’t have any skin in the game so I could knit my way through it all.  No screaming

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Throw or Pick, how do you knit?

This morning, because my internal clock is Satan’s first born, I woke up at 5:15am. Who does that on a Saturday? That would be me, AND to make matters worst I couldn’t fall back to sleep. GRRRRR So I grab my phone and find my self in one of the knitting communities and the poster

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What's GG knitting now?

Last night Scandal came back and I needed something to occupy my hands. Why? So I wouldn’t throw something at my TV! Shonda play too much, yes I am addicted to Scandal. I shared this pic with you guys of the cape I tried on at Vogueknitting live and fell in love, the Touring Cape,

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Thankful Thursday|Today I am thankful

Today I woke up and the first thing I laid my eye on was a skein of yarn that right now, I couldn’t afford to purchase, so today I am thankful. I got up and instead of focusing on the “have nots” I turned my eye on what I “have”, which is abundant. Today, I

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This week on Ravelry

It’s time for the Ravelry Roundup! This is where I share what as caught my eye, made me say “oh I have to make that like right now” or in this case made me grab yarn and needles and cast on baby! I will start with the pattern that made me go stash diving, praying

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About those knitted converse sneakers…

Yesterday, while in the mall browsing with Shelbey I came across the knitted sneakers I had seen on the web and lost all of my mind. I was happy and then instantly sad, they didn’t have my size ;/ after trying to find out where I could find my size I learned they only had

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