A local yarn shop review.
Ellen was packing for Stitches West so most of her sock yarn was boxed up. I will use this as an excuse to hit her shop again next time I’m in town. She and her husband were helpful so I started my Christmas shopping (this is early, even for me, but she had some really cute socks).


If you’re in the area, you’ll also want to swing by so you can love on her shop dogs and enjoy the great natural light in the store.


And you can get some lunch and hang out in the area if you like because it is picturesque.


Ps. This is one of the cleanest and neatest yarn shops I’ve been in in spite of the fact that she was boxing up for a show.

These little boas worked up quickly and are cute.

Pattern: Tecido Trico Scarf by Knitting Fever
Yarn: Circulo Yarns Tecido Trico


I was thrilled by the response of the recipients.



Ps. Happy Birthday to the grandmother of these lovely girlies! aka the world’s best mother-in-law.

Pps. Check out what others have finished at Tami’s Amis and Wisdom begins in Wonder and Natural Suburbia

before a fall….or in this case before I spent 3 days trying to figure out what in the heck I was doing because it sure as frack wasn’t reading the chart (you know, from the pattern I thought was pretty easy).

One of my sweet friends suggested that maybe there was an error with the pattern. Sure, an error where the ninth time you read a chart, suddenly, there’s an error? Yea, that’s probably it.

By the time I quit diagnosing, picking up stitches, dropping stitches, picking up different stitches, being unappy with how the lace looked and sucked it up and unknit all the way back (6 rows) to the spot where I lost all reason, several days had passed. This is the point where I told myself that I’m 50% process knitter and unknitting is sort of the same as knitting. I think we all know it’s not.


I was finally able to finish the first sock and am working on the second one….and you can bet your sweet arse I’m paying attention to the chart.

Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis.