My friend Francine of Fancy That – Creations by Francine came over on Friday night to help me setup for my Open House. Francine has a gift of creating beautiful display as shown in the pictures below. She also bought over a selection of her shawl pins and stitch markers with her that were available for sale during the open house. My friend Natalie of Natalie Servant Designs let me have her binders full of her patterns available at my open...

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Earlier in July, I spent several days at my friend’s cottage in Prince Edward County (I visited this cottage with my friend last September and blogged about it here) with my Mom and brother. We had a lovely but busy time at the cottage partly due to my brother’s car problems. I brought most of my yarn with me on the trip because I planned to make an appointment with the owner of Robbins’ Nest in Brighton, ON as it was about a...

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My friend Natalie’s 4th annual Tour de France KAL (Knit Along) started today. It is run out of her ravelry group Natalie Servant Designs. This year’s shawl pattern is the Père Lachaise Shawl and she talks about her inspiration for this pattern in this blog post. Natalie posted pictures of the different versions she knit of this shawl in this blog post. Natalie knit the small fingering weight version using one skein of my Cash Sock...

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Mimi, the owner of The Loop hosted a trunk show for Yvieknits Yarns at her store yesterday afternoon. I arrived at the store just before it opened in the morning and we spent the morning setting up for the show. I brought almost hundred skeins of yarn, 4 shawl kits and lots of knitted samples with me so there was lots to do. My yarn was displayed in three spots in the store. The basket on the end of the big table (picture top left) contained...

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I’m in Halifax visiting my friend B. and her family at the moment. I arrived in Halifax very late on Thursday night since my flight was more than 3 hours late. Long story. Usually when I visit, we (B. and another friend) go for a girls day trip out to the Valley (Wolfville area) which we did today. We have a set plan of stops developed over the years. The first stop is the Wolfville Farmers Market, then to Gaspereau Valley Fibres which a...

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Kari Verge, who co-hosts the TwoTangledSkein podcast, released the Mountain Path Socks last Sunday. She designed these socks using a skein of my sock yarn in the Mountain Top At Dusk colourway (shown on pattern page) that I had donated to the podcast to review last fall. This is the first relased pattern that was designed using a skein of my yarn. I volunteered to test knit this pattern for Kari. I decided to test out both the medium and large...

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