Hi again! I'm another Karen, owner of Karin's nearby yarn shop, Cozy! One of the most frequent questions I get at the shop is, "How do you pick all the colors? It must be so hard!" Short answer, it is. It's so hard that I welcome the chance to not pick, when given it; I …
Tag: yarn
Can I Knit Yet?
This weekend one of my local yarn stores (Cozy, to be exact. You remember Karen, right?) was having a pretty big sale and lo' and behold there was a little fun money to be had so I dragged the hubs there to check it out. I rarely get the chance to go to a LYS …
Guest Again!
Guess Who’s Back! • Hi, again, everyone! Thandi, here 🙂 The lovely Karin has invited me to guest post on her blog once more. I am delighted to report to you that, since my last post, I have started studying again, whipped up a few more crochet projects and been diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. …
Crafter’s Block
Hello friends! Sarah, here, returning to Nae’s blog to chat about the fact that I haven’t knit or crocheted or spun anything for about a year, now. Yep. I’m stuck. I don’t even want to. I’m not even tempted. I love petting pretty yarns and occasionally still buy yarn, and then I set it next …
Power Up!
So the last few days I've been without my computer because my power chord decided it didn't want to work anymore (of course, this happens just as my coverage ends). At least, I hoped it was the power chord, so I ordered a new one that arrived a little bit ago and lo and behold! …
When Ideas Don’t Quite Work Out
Or at least, they don't work out as well as they did in your head. The first go around. What am I talking about, you ask? I have several pairs of jeans that I can't wear anymore because I do not like holes in my jeans and, well... a thigh gap I have not, so... …
Running a Small Yarn Shop
My name is Jess, and I run Fairlight Fibers, an online yarn shop that specializes in artisan and locally-sourced yarns and notions. It's been a somewhat-challenging and delightful journey to arrive at this point, and I thought it might be fun to share some of that journey here, an idea which Karin has been kind enough …
W.I.P. Fever Didn’t Last Long
After working on a few W.I.P.s I got to the point where I needed something a little more mindless (Fibro-fog ftw?) as most of the ones left are ones that require paying close attention. So what did I do? Why, I cast on another pair of socks, of course. This didn't end up being as …
Of Surprise Socks and a PSA
So... I got my laptop back on Tuesday night. Cool, right? It turned on and everything, working as it should... Only to punk out again with the exact same issue not 12 hours later. After some frustrating phone calls to the help desk, we think we've figured out the culprit: Windows 10. Apparently it's a …
Drowning!
Well, not really, but it does seem as if I've gone from zero to sixty in less than a second as far as knitting projects go. I still need to finish that shawl I started a few weeks ago, of course. And the dog sweater is still going to happen (just waiting on the measurements …
Another Piece of Me 