Test Drive… Arcadia

Arcadia / Cascade Yarns
154 yards per ball
80% Pima Cotton & 20% Angora
Test Drive color: 4203 (lime green – shown in the picture)
Gauge per yarn label: 6 sts per inch on size 5 needles
(I got exactly this! and 8 rows per inch in height).
This yarn is also available in a DK weight.
116 yards per ball and 5.5 st [...]

a mixed bag…

This weekend has gone by soooooo fast!  (Saturday… cold, windy, sunshine, rain, a little everything.)We cleaned up the deck and Rick built a railing for our new BBQ to back up against.  (we get high winds without notice and we don’t want it tipping over like the old one did.) 
So while Rick played with the tools [...]

a weekend away…

I decided to divide my posting today in two.  Let’s talk about what a great trip I had to my mom’s last weekend.
This is a picture coming over the pass on Thursday evening.  I think these birds where having a contest “who can stand on one leg the longest”.  So many years I have driven [...]

no more tears…

ok, I didn’t really cry, but almost!  Over Mother’s Day weekend I found a mistake in my shawl.  Yes, it is hard to believe that careful me made a mistake but I did.  So I carefully tried to go back about 5 rows to correct it.  WRONG!!!  Good thing I had been putting in “lifelines” [...]

the price of gas…

The little town I live in has 1 grocery store, 2 gas stations, and well let’s see… 7 coffee places!   And while I’m talking about this great little town that I live in, lets talk about gas for just a moment… $3.45 for the cheap stuff this morning on my way to work at the Shell station!  [...]

Knitting, Dips and books…

Well the weekend is drawing to an end… and it’s been drizzling all day!  This will be a short entry tonight because I want to get back to knitting on my shawl.

It’s almost doubled since last weekend.  I had a couple of lunch hours that I spent looking for the missing YO.  And then I [...]

Decisions…

It’s decision time… last year I took a time out from making dips during the spring and summer because I was getting married.  And I cut way, way back at Christmas time.  Now I’m feeling the spice fairies calling my name.  I need to decide if I am going to get back in to production [...]