About a month ago, Stitchcraft Marketing contacted me to see if I would be interested in trying some South African yarn, Vinni’s Colours Bambi, from Be Sweet Yarns. I knew I had a baby gift to knit, and was excited to try a new to me yarn. Vinni’s Colours is owned by Vinni Nielsen, a Denmark native… Continue reading Knit Me: Be Sweet Yarns, Vinni’s Colours
This was a week for finishing things! After I posted on Wednesday of last week, I went to knit night and finished the body of the poncho and picked up stitches for the ribbed collar. Thursday turned out to be icy so I worked from home and, in the lulls between tasks and emails, I… Continue reading Knit Night: Potawatomi and Handspun Sock
For the past 10 years (and for several years before that) I have met with a group of friends for knit night. In Los Angeles it was at my local yarn store, and in the beginning in Kansas it was at a local yarn store, but sadly both stores have closed. Now my closest friends… Continue reading Knit Night: Ravellenic Games 2018
I’m awash in samples from Tea Runners! This week I brought Water Sprite Oolong to work to try. Water Sprite Oolong is pure oolong tea from a family farm high up in the mountains of Southeast China. The first thing I noticed when I opened the bag is how smoky this tea is. The packaging… Continue reading Drink Me: Tea Runners, Water Sprite Oolong
Recently Stitchcraft Marketing contacted me to see if I would be interested in knitting something out of Zen Yarn Garden’s Magical Dye Pot Series. The premise behind the Magical Dye Pot Series is that sets of 6 colorways are created for larger projects. Within these sets, the colors both coordinate and contrast. So you can order all 6 colorways… Continue reading Knit Me: Zen Yarn Garden, Magical Dye Pot Series
Many, many months ago (I’m ashamed to count how many) my friend Ana brought me a few bags of Tea-Historic tea that she had picked up at a local festival. I pulled them out for sampling in the next few weeks and went to the website to do more research and learned that Tea-Historic is… Continue reading Drink Me: Tea-Historic, Cretaceous Cinnamon
Welcome to episode 167! I feel like I got lots done this week, but since I’m in the middle of some larger projects it’s all WIPS! Ok, I have a finished knit and spin, but lots more I want to do before the end of the month. Please come and join the Ravelry group. You… Continue reading Episode 167: Wips Wips Wips
My husband knows me so well. He wanted to buy me some tea for Christmas so he checked out Adagio Teas where he found a whole sampler set of 12-teas for fans of Critical Roll. I photographed them all for fun, and I’ll be sampling a few over the next few weeks on the blog.… Continue reading Drink Me: Adagio Teas, Cri-Tea-Cal Role
Every year I eagerly await the holiday season and holiday spice teas. This year I placed a small order with Adagio Teas for some samples. One of those is Gingerbread. Adagio’s Gingerbread blend includes black tea, gingerbread flavor, cinnamon bark, orange peel and ginger root. Gingerbread is available in a variety of sizes: sample for… Continue reading Drink Me: Adagio Teas, Gingerbread
Another tea I added to my recent order from David’s Tea is their Lemon Pound Cake tea. From the ingredients list, Lemon Pound Cake contains oolong, lemongrass, lemon peel, sunflower blossoms, white hibiscus and natural and artificial poundcake and lemon flavor. It comes in multiple increments of 2 oz. for $10.98 per 2 oz. When I first… Continue reading Drink Me: David’s Lemon Pound Cake
