adventures in san francisco, part one yarn tasting at art fibers

San Francisco, Art Fibers. The hallway to the second floor walk-up is filled with xeroxed pictures of models, whose sweaters have been cut-out and filled in with swatches. Clearly, you are headed to a place of fashion.

And fashion it is indeed, with yarn of every sort, eyelash and chunky. Mohair and silk wool blends are common here. Worsted weight is harder to come by.

Like Habu, yarn at Art Fibers is sold by the ounce rather than the yard. For the most part, the fibers come in a array of colors. Take for example, the Ming I found, a silk wool blend. I had my choice of rust, blue and many other colors (although I eventually settled on maroon). Additionally, many of the yarns are available at a cheaper price in dye hanks. I found it hard to keep my hands off of 1000-yard hanks of lace-weight silk and wool, despite the knowledge that it the silk would hardly make this a suitable fiber for a first time dyer like myself.

Karrie and Carmen arrived ahead of me and were already examining the fibers they keep in drawers. Soon after I got there, Anabel and her friend Christina, appeared and we found ourselves tasting various fibers.

Art Fibers is well aware that none of their fibers come with a set gauge and needle size attached to them. They encourage knitters to knit a sample and have set aside a special yarn-tasting area complete with needles (circular, straight AND double points) and fiber for you to try out your potential purchases. They even have drop spindles for spinners to have their own roving tasting. I sampled my Ming with a US Size 4 and found (not at all to my surprise) that I liked the fiber.

Other products at Art Fibers include needles, pattern books and buttons. The staff here is helpful and will kindly draw up a pattern for you using their knitting software. Unfortunately, the one on one attention can come at the price of speedy check out service on a busy day.

I purchased both the Ming and also these artisan crafted buttons from Vermont.

Overall, I had a terrific time at Art Fibers. I’ll give it a rating of 4 1/2 stars and an E for Everyone.

Art Fibers is located at 124 Sutter Street in San Francisco. It is a very short walk from Chinatown.

crawling in eugene – kicking ass and taking names

First let me address the obvious. Where did my entire sidebar go? The answer is, I have no freaking idea. This is not a good thing because new people have been visiting and now they have no guide.

Second, I have cause to celebrate. While I did not find an apartment in Eugene today, I did find a few knitting groups. A girl has got to have her priorities in order! I met some new knitters, including the king of lace (I’m not quite clear on his name). I think he might be a big time sample knitter.

My initial stop was the Ben Franklin Craft store mainly because that made the most geographic sense. (Buy from independent and locally!) But if you really want the link, here you go. I just wanted to see if they really did carry Louet and Malabrigo and they do. The also carry Mongolian Cashmere if that’s any measure of quality. So I joined their e-mail list for sales. It’s nice to see a big craft store exploring the world of fiber.

After looking at some apartments (which were out of my budget) and doing a whole lot of driving around, I decided I had just enough time to make it to the Knit Shop. I got a great look at their walls of color which include all sorts of great things. I was particularly pleased to see that they carry the Malabrigo laceweight which is something I keep lusting after, for no particular reason. I had about 7 minutes to look around before closing time (my decision not theirs). Anyway, I asked about knitting groups in the area and was promptly informed that there was a guild meeting at 7. So I went! This is why you should always carry your knitting on you.

There are a few other shops that I will check out later. I spent the session knitting and ripping a section of my old rose socks and am trying to make some changes for the top of the foot. I haven’t gone into huge depths with cables, so I’m still working a lot of things out. What I really need is help from Anabel. (Poke.) I tried drawing some charts, but I think I’ll try using my computer instead. That will make it easier to move the cable patterns around to my liking. There’s a knitting font you can download in a couple of different places. There’s one from Knitting Universe for Macintosh. If you have a PC, try the one from XRX Inc or the one by Carol Taylor. If you want to get them on to your PDA, check out the explanation from Access.

I met the Yarn Mafia over at the Sinister Spinster and was impressed by her lace. She works at the shop and gave me the lowdown on local knitting groups. At this rate, I’ll be knitting four days a week. She appears to be a) a huge enabler b) a good teacher c) good at lace and d) fiber obsessed. I met a lot of other people too but none of them have blogs. They are quite important – I mean I met the King of Lace! (That’s just my name for him.) I just can’t point you to them. I will probably see quite a few of those people at Oregon Flock and Fiber and not remember any names. I don’t think I took many names. Does this mean I’m not kicking ass?

knitting on the oregon coast

The Oregon Coast is gorgeous. There are also beautiful wonderful yarn shops on the Oregon Coast, although somehow we only managed to stop at Nestucca Bay Yarns again. While I was once again denied some of their lovely handpaints, I did get to see a lot of the fall colors for Mountain Colors. I also picked up some more Tahki Cotton Classic there for my miters. I bought every color that they had on sale that I hadn’t gotten previously for a total of two additional colors.

I also purchased some yarn to make my friend Liz a hat.

my first oregon yarn crawl with the PDX bloggers

Do you remember your first yarn crawl? Isn’t it special? Not Dana Carvey special, but great. When you move to a new city, going to a yarn crawl, or on some other fun event with people you don’t know can be an affirming experience. For example, you realize that we still live in a world where you can meet total strangers and feel safe. You also realize that there are a lot of cool people out there. You meet new people who are in your area. You make friends. Maybe not you. But me anyway.

When I moved to Minnesota, it was the residents of Minneapolis who went off with me, then a total stranger, to go see the Yarn Harlot in Wisconsin. Remember this? Here in Oregon, it was the new members of the PDX blogger group (on Ravelry and Yahoo) that set up a yarn crawl just for us. Unlike the yarn crawls I’ve been to in Minnesota, this was a self-started informal tour. Even so, it was pretty well organized for the last minute. We had great maps, a schedule and the shops knew we were going to descend on them.

There were 13 of us including two non-knitting spouses although at any given time we numbered around nine or ten.

My husband kindly took this photo.

Top row from left to right: Cindy from Knit for Joy, Lia of Fruity Sheep , Maia of Maia Spins and Judy of Persistent Illusion .

Bottom row from left to right. Sara the Fyberduck of Quacking Fiber Addict Stephania of Moirae Knitting (me) and Chrispy of Pursuit of Fiber

Ed’s Note: I’ve got someone mislabeled. Tell me who you are!

Fyberduck, who writes the Quacking Fiber Addict, was our lead enabler. Thanks again Sara for organizing us! I wish I’d gotten a picture of the duck that Sara had with her. It made them easy to identify when following their car. I am quite enamored with the fuschia colored socks that are currently displayed on her blog.

Cindy has beautiful blog cards. Lia met up with us just in time for Farmhouse. Judy makes amazing socks. Maia, well Maia Spins. She’s also a Bay Area resident. Sarah is a Seattle resident and Obsessed Knitter. I believe she wasn’t depicted in the photo, but I can’t figure out why. Chrispy is an incredible burgeoning designer. I’m sure you’ll be seeing a lot of her work soon.

I met Kathy finally (not depicted) from Vast Amount of Spare Time. I was supposed to meet Kathy befoBre when I came and saw Ann and Kay, but I missed the description of her as the gal with the crutches. She was crutch-less when I met her this week, although not entirely better. Kathy’s picture on Ravelry is the one with the woman hiding behind the crayfish. I didn’t know where I recognized her from until she mentioned the crayfish. Another San Francisco Bay Area resident came along with us to Abundant Dyeworks and Pix. I don’t have Chelsea’s blog name written done though. I’m counting on her contacting me! (Hint hint.)

We didn’t have name tags, so we made do with a post-its. Knitters are intrepid. Those of us with buttons, cut a hole in our post-its and buttoned them on to our shirts. Knitters are creative. Those of us without post-its but with stitch markers, used the stitch-markers as pins. Knitters carry knitting supplies. I’m not cool enough to have spare stitch markers, so I used the button technique.

The group’s name, PDX (Portland, Oregon) bloggers, was not very description of the group’s actual geographical composition, though it’s true that PDX bloggers describes their geographic area very inclusively. You can find them on Ravelry and on Yahoo Groups. Two of the knitters were from California. One was from Washington. I live in Salem and Fybderduck just moved to Portland from Eugene.

Another fun fact is that most of the people traveling around today got their Ravelry invitations in the last week. Given that this yarn crawl was planned on Ravelry, that’s pretty amazing.

List of Stops: 1. Abundant Yarn and Dyeworks 2. Yarn Garden 3. Twisted 4. Knit Purl 5. Farmhouse Knitting

Let me preface this portion of the post by pointing out that all of these shops are amazing places. We were well treated in all the shops. They all have wonderful fabulous yarns and all for different reasons. There are many other wonderful shops in the area. I’ll cover those eventually.

I liked Abundant Yarn and Dyeworks first and foremost because they dye their own yarn. I didn’t buy any, but I’m looking forward to trying it someday. It’s also nice that you can see over most of the yarn displays (keep in mind that I’m under 5′), so that the shopping atmosphere is nice and social. The food at the Busy Bee Cafe is good also, although I thought the sandwiches were much better than the fettucini. I loved my Italian soda. What can I say – it was peach topped with whipped cream. They are coming to do a demo at the Oregon State Fair this Friday and I’m seriously considering going to the fair again just to see them.

The Yarn Garden is a fantastic store in general, but unfortunately the sock yarn there is a little run of the mill (or maybe they were low on stock). Their main features were Tofutsies and Koigu. That being said, they had a huge selection of Koigu. And they have a tea shop. Another nice thing about the Yarn Garden is that it’s near Pix, an astonishing desert place that we stopped at for Judy’s birthday. And the Yarn Garden is on Hawthorne so you can always send your significant other or non-knitting friends off to Powell’s or up to one of the funky shops up the street.

I never needed a sign that Pix was the right place to be. The sight of the deserts was enough for me. But just in case you do, I took a photo. Need to see the goods? Well, go to their website. (Ed. note: If it’s not clear, the sock monkey is in the Pix near the Yarn Garden. Contact the Fyberduck for the address.)

Knit Purl: How can you not love a store with a window display of clothing that you wish you could just run in and buy . They have beautiful yarns and a lot of things that I’ve never or rarely seen in a store. This includes Hand Maiden, Shibui (Knit Purl is it’s home) and Habu.

We were totally bribed. How did they know that I adore the macaroons from Whole Foods. (It didn’t say that they were from Whole Foods, but Whole Foods is down the street and I recognized the baked goods. Besides, I’m married to a Combinatorist (he prefers being called a graph theorist) and can put two and two together. They provided my husband with a glass of iced tea too. As a mathematician, my husband can’t add, but he has a Ph.D. in counting.

At Twisted, which I’ve been waiting to see since it opened, we ogled the Yartini, the Woolarina, the Painted Skein, the Zen String Serendipity and many other yarns by indie sock dyers. I fought hard though, especially against the pull of the Serendipity, and walked out having purchased nothing more than an iced tea and a really pretty scarf pattern (Japanese Vines) that was designed for the shop by Michelle Molis. I have plans to take part of the pattern and incorporate it into a table runner using the Habu I bought this spring in New York. I may also make the scarf though since it incorporates a single skein of Cherry Tree Hill. Although it was designed for a solid yarn, I think it would look great in a variegated yarn because so much of the pattern is openwork. I was not the only one to purchase the scarf pattern and if you are on Ravelry, I’m sure you’ll be seeing a completed one their soon.

Our final stop was The Farmhouse Knit Shop. I didn’t take any pictures, but in a way I didn’t need to. The shopkeeper (owner?) was very sweet and amused my husband while we went to play with the little STR that was left in the shop. Blue Moon Fiber Arts products are the main attraction in this intimate shop. In addition to STR, they had Sock Candy, a cotton sock yarn and many other of their things. By the way, the Farmhouse Knit Shop looks like a house and it’s easy to miss the turn.

She was low on stock and I was relieved that all I really had to get was STR in Turquoise. It’s pretty and I’ve been petting it a lot. Yum.

On a totally different note, I’ve been following a little bit of the Ravelry thread: What Makes a Good Blog. I’ve only been asked once why my posts have to be clicked on from Google reader or Bloglines, but if there is anyone out there who has a problem with this, let me know. I’ll reconsider.

The main thing for me is neatness. If you are coming to my blog, you shouldn’t have to scroll down seven posts to see what’s what. You should be able to read multiple teasers and then pick out what you want to read. Notice I didn’t put in the MORE tag on this post. If you want to check out the mess this makes, please click on the blog today.

The second issue is knowing when you’ve been read. I like a comment or two when someone has something they want to say, but I’m content with the number I have. With that being said, I do like to know whether or not people are coming by. If you read this blog only through a feed reader then I have no idea whether or not anyone is listening. This isn’t my diary or my journal. It’s a nice way for me of keeping track of my knitting and for socializing with other knitters. At one point, WordPress had a feed estimator whereby you could kind of guess how many people subscribe to your blog. Unfortunately, it was a bit hit or miss and they’ve taken it down for remodeling. I can see how many people read my feed on Bloglines, but not on Google Reader and I certainly can’t track all the other feed readers that are used out there.

Thanks for reading. I really do appreciate it. I don’t thank you nearly often enough.

on bunnies

Today’s theme is bunnies (the ones that live in grassy fields, not the ones that live at the mansion). Note the vegetable stand at Pike Place Market in Seattle. If I lose you at any point during this post, you’ll need to click on the links to get back on track.

One Easter we were given a black rabbit. I think her name was Cara. My mother let Cara run all over the house, although unfortunately, Cara was not litter box trained. This was not why Cara went to live in the country though. She would have stayed with us for longer except that it turned out she liked to chew electrical cords. My mother found a new home for her where she would have a lot of room to run around without the risk of turning into a fried bunny.

When I was in Walla Walla, Washington, I played Killer Bunnies with some friends. That was a fun, low key game. Just playing it is the fun part.

miter illness

This spring I met Ann and Kay in Portland and since then, I’ve been slowly collecting Tahki Cotton Colors, ostensibly for use in a blanket of my own design. Of course, I also read this thread from Cara over at January One and between the two events, I’ve kept the Mitered Square blanket in the back of my mind. Still, I wanted to copy a quilt I saw on some guy’s knitting blog. The person’s blog was one of the people listed by Franklin on Panopticon, but now I can’t remember where the photo of the quilt went. I’m sure I have a copy of it on the backup I made of my hard drive before we moved. The design is pretty complicated and I’ve been working on graphing it with the help of a professional mathematician (i.e. my hubby).

she sells yarn by the seashore

I’m still catching up on my blogging. Just a quick word to my No Sheep for You swap pal in Virginia though. Thank you so much for the Tofutsies! I know it has a little wool in it, but I wanted it anyway, so it’s great to have it. It’s really pretty and I can’t wait to try it (although my queue is huge)! If you have a blog, will you drop me a note with the link, so I can put it here?

In my two weeks in Oregon, I’ve been to three yarn shops in three cities. None of them we’re in Salem. No, it’s not the beginning of a logic problem. The first was in Portland. During the Harry Potter wait, I realized I’d left my size 1 needle behind in the car, but I knew that Knit Purl was nearby, so I used the needles as an excuse to check out the shop. I really liked the variety of yarns they carried. There were several things there that I’d never seen all in one shop, or I’d only seen online, as well as some unique items.

we’re here for harry

On the way out to Salem, I finished Clapotis. It’s beautiful. I have absolutely no idea where I’m going to wear it, but I love it. I haven’t been able to take a proper photograph of it yet, but here’s a picture anyway.

Last Friday, my husband and I sat in the absolutely enormous line at Powell’s waiting to buy the 7th Harry Potter book. The line went up and down the closed-off street several times, around one block, around another and then back up the street again! It was fun, even if we hung out for six hours. We played cards with friends while we waited. My husband and I competed to see who could remember the most names of characters out of the books. I’m sure we missed hundreds of names. We had a great spot in line thanks to our friends. I did a little knitting on a sock. Professor McGonagall approved of the activity. I finished the book on Saturday morning. I enjoyed it and that’s all I have to say on that topic for a while.

christmas gifts and treats

I picked up several goodies for Christmas. My Dad gave me Cables Untangled and a gift certificate to the Knitter’s Palette. And my cousins gave me Victorian Lace Today. I’m looking forward to using both of them.

I mentioned previously that my husband gave me some Vesper for Christmas. I was allowed to pick it out but not see it until Christmas. I think I’ll have to use it in my new wall art project for Yarn Diet 2007.

Of course, I did some knitting shopping. My mom wrote me a check this year, so I didn’t get any yarn. I usually get yarn in the years where I see her BEFORE Christmas, which I forgot. Anyway, we headed off to Black Sheep Knitting, but they were closed the day after Christmas. Instead we went to Woolcott and Co. in Harvard Square. And discovered…

1833, 1835, 1970, 2003

Oberlin College was formed in 1833 and began regular admissions of African-American two years later in 1835. The town was a hotbed of Underground Railroad activity. The college is also the oldest continuously operating co-education institution. In the 1970, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in country to have co-ed dorms. Perhaps not nearly as momentously important, in 2003 knitting took off at the college and now many students knit in class.

To my great delight and consternation, I spotted this wonderful change to Smith’s Furnishings. Somehow, I managed to resist buying absolutely anything. I don’t know how I did it. Today’s Yarn Erotica might explain why. Actually, I just thought they’d be open on Sunday and ran out of time on Saturday to go back. Check out the entrelac they had in the window.

twin cities knitter’s picnic / day of knitting

Rose Garden, Lake Harriet, Minneapolis, MN

For those of you who don’t already know, there are tons of knitting groups available online. Joining them is a great way to meet new people and advance your craft. That being said, I went to the Twin Cities Knitter’s Picnic today and had a blast. I met at least 30 other Twin Cities area knitters out by the Rose Garden at Lake Harriet. It was a beautiful day for a picnic and our host got us a great fountainside spot in the shade.

I passed a pleasant couple of hours in a shady spot, listening to the gurgling fountain, knitting and oggling everyone’s projects. One woman had an incredible looking shawl. I did a little more work on my second Baudelaire sock. That’s right, the SECOND sock. I finished the first one yesterday, but without a photograph it seemed pointless to bring it up, but whatever. I can throw the photo in here later.

I also went back to work on the Conwy socks and I’m doing the toe for the first one tonight. It’s wonderful in the Bearfoot and everyone admired the yarn. I thought they were a bit dense at first, but someone said something today that reminded me that they will wear well (unlike my Baudelaires which aren’t at the best gauge in the world at 6.5 stitches to the inch). Obviously they’ll be warm too. I’d actually forgotten all about how socks wear. I think in the back of my mind I know that I usually lose socks well before they even have a chance of wearing out. Part of this is my lack of concentration and part of this is because I have a wonderful cat who loves to dig around in my sock drawer, remove the socks, and transport her sock babies around the house in her mouth. I look under the bed every couple of weeks and rescue 80% of them. I find the others behind the dryer when I move and in other strange locations.

I met several fellow bloggers at the picnic. It was very exciting to match up faces with blogs. Among the bloggers were, Christy from Purling Away, Knitty Mama along with the adorable knitty baby, Nancy from Clicking Sticks and Tipper, from Daily Fiber Therapy. Rina took the picture shown above. She took more and they can be seen here. One blogger, Chris of Stumbling Over Chaos, even had her own blog card. I’m jealous and I think I’ll have to make up a few before I go off to see Stephanie. I want to impress, but I’m sure she has her own card.

I can’t remember everyone’s names and blogs but I’m sure I’ll get my hands on a more complete list soon. When I do, I’ll be putting up links on the newly created Minnesota page. I realized that my sidebar was rapidly becoming a mess and that the best way of coping with it was to give Minnesota resources their own page.

The Knitter’s Palette

I also went by the Knitter’s Palette on my way home from the picnic. I had thought about doing this earlier, but had not managed to organize myself enough to download directions. Fortunately, Betsy had. (To the best of my knowledge, Betsy does not have a blog so I can’t include it here.) The Knitter’s Palette is a relatively new shop in Lakeville and it hosts a knitting group from 1:00pm to 3:00pm every Sunday.

I thought it was a very nicely laid out shop and full of wonderful yarns like Lorna’s Laces, Trekking XXL, Andes, Rowan Big Wool, They have a decent seating area.

I bought some pretty blue Trekking XXL. I had to.

As a bonus, they are next door to Kowalski’s market, so I picked up a couple of treats to take home. My husband was pleased because he scored a can of his favorite brand of caffe espresso coffee, Caffe Nero’s Medaglia D’oro. He’s been rather unhappy since it is not available at Cub, Just Food (our co-op), or Whole Foods.

I had a lot of fun today, but I paid the price in exhaustion when I got home and had to have a two hour nap. The latest cold that I had caught is still stuck to me by a thread. I get wiped out very easily and I’m planning to head to the doctor’s office to make sure I haven’t got another sinus infection. I honestly thought I was well enough to hang out with people; clearly I haven’t been getting up very much lately. I hope it wasn’t contagious. There was an adorable baby there, but I did not handle him if that helps.
Word Press and Badges

Somehow, I just figured this out today after a dicussion at the picnic and some exploring in the help files. I still think an actual tutorial is needed, so here you go.

To insert a badge into your blog on wordpress.com go into the sidebar widgets section of your presentation page. Drag a text widget into your sidebar and customize it by double clikcing on the widget. Common code includes <a href=”the link here”> <img src=”your image link here” width=# height = #</a>.

Here’s an example.
<p><a href=”http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kotr-sock-kal/”><img src=”http://threefates.files.wordpress.com/2006/08/kotrbutton2.gif”></a></p>

Center the entire thing by enclosing it with <div align=center> and </div> and you are off and running.

For the image link, the best thing to do is to save the image to your desktop by right clicking on it. Open up the post page and upload the image. Drag it into the post, select the image and click on the little image picture. A window containing the link will pop-up. Copy the link and ditch the post.

*It is not polite to link the image back to the source. This is called stealing bandwidth and is highly uncool.*

I think my battery comes tomorrow, so look for images then. They will likely go straight into the posts they belong in.

more yarn

After suffering through a hellacious headache on Friday, my nose deflated to the point where all anyone could see was a red mark. I took my husband to Denver International Airport Saturday so that he could go to Victoria for a mathematics conference. He’ll be back Friday. We move Saturday. If this conference hadn’t been in the plans for more than a year, I’d say it was awfully convenient of him.

(missing picture) My husband’s departure resulted in an immediate survey of yarn stores in Denver. Showers of Flowers is just about the biggest yarn shop I have ever seen. It’s way out on West Colfax, but I think it’s worth the trip if you aren’t looking for sock yarn. I picked up two skeins of South West Trading Company Bamboo for the the Lotus Blossum tank by Sharon Shoji on the cover of this Summer’s Interweave Knits. Anyone knitting this tank should know that Interweave thoughtfully provided a chart for the lace online. Of course, sometime I’ll have to interpret this into socks so I can have my very own Lotus Blossom socks. Don’t expect to see me working on this tank for a long long time. For some reason the tank bust circumfrence start’s at 33 3/4″ and jumps to 39.” It’s looking like I’m going to have to think my way through some size adjustments and pick up another skein of yarn. I think I’ll be able to use size 7 and 6 needles instead of 5 and 6 and get something that fits my 36″ bust. Or I’ll just make the 39. Anyway, I’ll have to knit up some swatches.

I also hopped over to my favorite local shop, Holly Berry to pick up some Lorna’s Laces. I was disappointed by the lack of Lorna’s Laces at Showers of Flowers, but since I showed them the embossed leaves socks I’m making in the Lorna’s watercolor colorway, maybe they’ll wise up and order some. Instead, what happened is that I finally realized that Mountain Colors Hand-Painted Yarns from Corvallis, MT comes in a gauge small enough for socks. Although 21.95 a skein, it’s a 350 yard skein, which means it’s compatible to Lorna’s Laces. It’s only 60% superwash, so it will have to go with the cold load. Hey, it’s not like I don’t have tons of other knits that need to go in the cold wash. And the cold wash is better for the planet (as long as I don’t have to knit more because my husband’s shrunk the socks). The photo is very bright; the colors are a lot deeper and richer in real life.

I got some more work done on the embossed leaves socks and am finishing up the toe tonight. The pattern knit up very quickly and I’m going to need to start another pair of socks tomorrow night. I might want to use the Barefoot Mountain Colors, or I might finish up the falling leaves socks (that happen to be way way too big).

October 2006 – I’m sorry some of the photos got overwritten before I solved this by switching to flickr. I also had deleted them. Since the yarn has been transformed considerably there was no point in replacing them.

hello from new england

I am on vacation, so you aren’t going to get another post for a couple of days. I went to the 15th reunion of a program known as The Mountain School over the weekend and am now visiting my family in Raymond, NH. It rained A LOT and the power went out every time we sat down to eat, but I had a really really good time. I worked on a hiking trail, ate a lot of good food, watched the sheep graze and reminisced with my semester mates.

While I have my digital camera, I don’t have the cable that connects it to a computer, so I can’t show you what I’ve bought or what I knit. I bought some Koigu at Charlotte’s Web in Exeter, New Hampshire.

I finished the Pomatomus Socks and my iPod holder, both of which I will photograph and dutifully post when I get home on Friday. I’m now about to start a new pair of Lace Knee-Highs from the Winter 2004 issue of Interweave Knits using Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in Green Mountain Madness.

I also had a brain storm about left over sock yarn. I’ve put this on the web in the form of the North American Sock Yarn Exchange (NASYE). Please send in your comments about this on this page for now. It will take some time for me to set up the other page.