Over a year ago, I took a class at a retreat. I wasn’t very happy with the class, so I simply put the pieces away until recently, when I decided to finish the quilt on general principle. 😉 I’ve finished piecing the two-part wedges into the “bow tie” sections and […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Okay, I showed you some yarn I’d wound on my lovely new swift, but I didn’t wind it just on a whim. I’m making a knitted jacket called Elektra, designed by Twisted Sisters. The pattern shows four different yarns, but our local knit shop, Sin City Knit Shop, is having […]
You may remember that my very generous brother-in-law has made me a yarn swift to make winding skeins of yarn into balls so much easier. Prior to having this, I had to drape the skein around the end of my ironing board and manually unwind it — very slowly and carefully! […]
Our final stop in Norway was in Stavanger. We visited a museum detailing how the oil industry works, another museum that showed the sardine canning process, and the old part of town with its wooden houses. This was part of the shopping area — really pretty! The following day was […]
We spent most of one morning cruising the scenic fjords — and I can’t begin to express how beautiful they are! Here is a shot of one of the magnificent waterfalls we saw. That afternoon, we visited Haugesund, which hadn’t been on our original itinerary but was added when a […]
Following our day in Bergen, our next stop was in FlÃ¥m. This was a smaller town, but it had a very informative museum showing how the railroad had tunneled through the mountains. There wasn’t a lot to see in town, but there was a lovely harbor, where people were booking […]