Wednesday, June 17, 2009:

I had several balls of sock yarn listed at Ebay, but three of them didn't sell, and I thought I'd offer them here if anyone was interested. They were listed at $15.00; I would ask an additional $1.50 for shipping, so $16.50 for each. If you're interested, just email me and let me know which one you want, and I'll send you a Paypal invoice. If I have more than one request, it will be first-come, first-served. I'll let you know either way.



No. 1 - Regia Jubilee, Color 5472 ("India"), Dye Lot 53723. Hot pink, white, burgundy, tan. Made in Italy. 75% Superwash Wool, 25% Polyamide. Size 1-2 needles. 100 gram ball (420 meters).
This yarn was part of a limited edition set created for the 55th anniversary of Regia, and is no longer available.
$16.50 including S&H



No. 2 - Opal Rainforest III, Color 2030, Dye Lot 10. Off-white, denim-blue, gold, coral. Made in Germany. 75% Superwash Wool, 25% Polyamide. 8 stitches=1 inch on US Size 1 needles. 100 gram ball (425 meters).
$16.50 including S&H





No. 3 - Gedifra Socks Color, Color 4203, Dye Lot 10459. Pink, cream, turquoise, tan, pale yellow. Made in Germany. 75% Superwash Wool, 25% Polyamide. Size 1-2 needles. 100 gram ball (459 yards).
$16.50 including S&H



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Just posted about two dozen back issues of Knitter's and Vogue Knitting on Ebay.



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Tuesday, June 16, 2009:

I just listed a bunch of old needlework magazines on Ebay: McCall's Needlework, Threads, Cross Stitch Magazine, Quilter's Newsletter.

And there are still a couple of balls of sock yarn, including a ball of Regia Special Edition "Jubilee," but the auctions end in about 15 hours!



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Free Audio book download of "Sweet Talk" by Susan Mallery from Lion Brand and Audible.


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Friday, May 08, 2009:

These transfers make me want to embroider, something I haven't done for probably more than 20 years: Sublime Stitching.

I might have to order some . . .



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Saturday, August 09, 2008:

Noro Silk Garden is probably my favorite yarn ever, so I'm not sure why it took me so long to buy some Silk Garden Sock. In any event, I bought six skeins in a buying frenzy -- they came out with 8 colors, but I didn't buy the one that's all cream and tan, or the royal blue one. Anyway, I decided I'd bought too much, so I'm keeping the two colors I liked the most, and put the others on Ebay. They're a dollar or so cheaper than I paid for them, and about the same amount cheaper than the only other seller on Ebay.


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Sunday, July 27, 2008:

Today's time waster: photographing skeins of sock yarn and putting them up in my stash on Ravelry

I joined Ravelry a while ago, but had never done anything with it. Then yesterday I was putting up some Vera Bradley stuff on Ebay--something else I hadn't done in awhile--and was reminded of my "opal sock" saved search, and then for whatever reason, that reminded me of Ravelry, and I went there. And saw that they were having a "knitting olympics," and that intrigued me, so I went down in the basement to see what sock yarn I would pick if I was going to make a pair of Olympics socks, and that led to the photographing and listing extravaganza.


Right now I'm working on a sock that I started around the 4th of July so that I would have something to knit at the family reunion that weekend. I didn't end up knitting anything--my parents didn't want to stick around after lunch--but I'm about halfway through the first sock. I'd like to finish at least one before I start something else . . . maybe my "Olympic" knitting could be the second sock?



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Wednesday, January 09, 2008:

Crocheted hamburgers, tv dinners, sardines . . . TOYS - a photoset on Flickr. Link from Slashfood


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Tuesday, December 11, 2007:

This is a really cute knitted kitty toy (a toy that's a kitty, not a toy for a kitty, I assume), and of course I would never buy this kind of thing as a kit -- would anyone pay $72 to the materials to knit a toy?? Even without the needles it would be over $60 just for the yarn and pattern book. I might buy the book, but if I were to make this, I'd definitely make it from scraps in my stash.

Yarn Market has Project Ideas for Toys - Wool Cotton Kitty Toy


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