by Suzann Thompson | Apr 10, 2007 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Diana just finished a Koigu shawl, and has a number of scraps as small as 2 inches. She’s thinking about knitting a landscape wall hanging, and using the snippets to embellish it. She commented that the short lengths of yarn from the sample card in my last post...
by Suzann Thompson | Apr 1, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Plymouth Yarns has always carried great basic yarns. I like their Indiecita Sport alpaca, and they now have alpaca boucle and baby alpaca yarns, too. Plymouth’s Galway Worsted 100% wool comes in a thorough color range, including some heathered yarns and nep...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 27, 2007 | Crochet, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Have I made anything in the last few months? Besides a poncho, that is. Yes, but not that you can tell from my blog. Yes, I’ve been crocheting like crazy! But I can’t tell you what I’m crocheting. Yet. I have used some great yarns for my big, secret...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 15, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post
In my last post, I theorized about the blue glow around passing vehicles, and the blue light reflecting from a nearby lake, during a sandstorm. My explanation was elegant. It made perfect sense. But I was wrong. My Uncle Christian, who worked for many years as a...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 1, 2007 | Life, Retro Blog Post
The skies were brown last Saturday. High winds filled the air with sand and dust, blotting out everything beyond a quarter of a mile. Charles went out for the Saturday newspaper, and came back telling of white caps on the normally calm Lake Proctor. The afternoon...
by Suzann Thompson | Feb 22, 2007 | Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
My friend Joan turned eighty last week. Her daughters threw a surprise birthday party for her, and people came from far and wide to Toronto to celebrate. It was a wonderful weekend of talking, talking, talking and quite a bit of eating, too. Toronto has an almost...
