Teresa’s Desk

Posts Tagged ‘green

Yarn Review

Posted by: teresasdesk on: April 23, 2009

Just a quick update to let you know that my ‘Wilmington’ yarn base was reviewed this week by Melissa Barton on her Days of Tea & Knitting blog.  She received a skein of the Emerald Sea Green colorway.
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Onions & Lace Weight

Posted by: teresasdesk on: March 27, 2009

I started our garden today – officially.  The first sacrifice was some onions I’ve been keeping just for this event.  Some had already gone bad and were fed to the compost.  The rest of them were planted and blessed.  And hopefully the bunnies and squirrels don’t have taste for onions.  Does anyone know?  The cans [...]

Shetland/Tussah Love!

Posted by: teresasdesk on: February 28, 2009

I ordered my first raw Shetland wool a few weeks back.  As usual, I got busy with other things and it got put on the back burner (well, actually the front porch) for a while.  I got it out the other day.  Washed some of it.  Dyed it.  Green.  And let it dry.  This morning [...]

Name That Yarn!

Posted by: teresasdesk on: February 25, 2009

Last week I dyed some yarn that  . . . well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.  But when it came out of the dye pot and dried, I was a little disappointed.  I decided to go ahead and re-skein it and knit up a test sample as is (before redyeing).  Here [...]