I took off for a good part of the summer — Mainly it was to escape the excrutiating high temperatures and > 90% humidity, so our trips took us to the Colorado rockies in July (mildly cool and only 16% humidity – yay!) and to Vancouver, WA in August (fortunately just missed the heat wave; ‘hi’ to Ann and Bob of Elann – thanks so much for the wonderful dinner and company). Along the way, there was plenty of time to ‘smell the roses’ . I think we all owe it to ourselves to sometimes just escape and do something totally for ourselves. I am now feeling more energized and productive than I have in quite some time. We shall see how long this lasts before reality sets in, lol.
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I am really pumped up about the new Tilli Tomas Symphony Kid Lace yarn. This yarn is a very soft brushed kid mohair plied with a soft glittery metallic thread and tiny glass seed beads.Tracy Robinson (owner and creative director of Tilli Tomas) asked me to design one-, two-, three-skein projects for this yarn. It’s been great fun to create designs that showcase this yarn.
Watch for these new HeartStrings patterns to be released soon: Lace and Cables Scarf, Lace Starlight Stole, and Put on the Glitz Shrug. |
Some other (possibly) related posts
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3 new HeartStrings patterns for Tilli Tomas Symphony My new patterns showcasing Symphony Kid Lace with Beads & Glitter will be arriving in stores this... |
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100% Kid Mohair Sample Swatch for GWOY The second of the new yarns I was sent to swatch for TNNA's Great Wall of Yarn is Colinton Australian... |
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Wounded – Beware of sharp things trying to interfere with your knitting ... or when knitting is not quite as fun as it could be ... I had the unfortunate experience last... |
