Here's my offering this week: we're finishing up our read-aloud, Airman, which I highly recommend (especially for boys, but my now-11yod loves it, too) and then we'll move on to A Whole Nother Story, a book that sounds very much like the type of crazy story Howard Whitehouse writes (we read his triology this past fall). For my reading, since we're starting our Lenten Journey today, I've got the classic, Abandonment to Divine Providence, Houselander's Way of the Cross and Fr. Barron's Conversion on tap.
My knitting for the past few days has been lots of swatches -- squares for the upcoming Olde Liberty Fiber Faire, swatching a new design I've got in my head:
... and I picked up a sampling of worsted weight yarns yesterday from Dog House Yarns in Culpeper. I'm the morning speaker at Dog House Yarns' upcoming knitting retreat (out at Graves Mountain Lodge on April 9). I'll be speaking about substituting yarns, what different fibers do, and generally discussing "the ins and outs of using this for that"; the swatches I'll knit from the yarns shown below will help illustrate just what different fibers do! I'll also be signing copies of my Great Yarns books and doing two break-out sessions in the afternoon ("short rows" and "tips and tricks").
Come join Ginny's yarn-along ... and go check out the links to all the lovely ladies who post about what they're reading and working on ... the fiber pictures will have you drooling!
Love the yarns! Thank you for the name of the yarn shop. My sister's live in the area and want to buy yarn for me to knit them something so I can now tell them a shop.
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Tracey
OH such gorgeous yarns and a knitting retreat? Sounds wonderful!! We are actually moving to Cville (hopefully by the end of the year) so I am going to have to stop at that yarn store!!! Have fun at your retreat!
ReplyDeleteThe yarn stash looks very appealing to me.
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