Before and after: Both Gorgeous!

tink — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:20:53 +0000

This is Yvonne. She is gorgeous through and through… She bakes fresh pumpkin bread for Yarns in the Farms every Saturday.

She brings stuffed mushrooms to every Tuesday knit night.

She is a Patriots fan. She works at Gorton’s Seafood in Gloucester.

Yvonne learned to knit almost a year ago, after she bought a Floofy skirt kit at the Landmark School auction.

Here is Yvonne rockin’ her HOT-off-the-needles Which do you Choose dress, made with hand dyed yarn from Mad Color’s Heather, from Gloucester. Nuff said.

More fun, fiber, and free stuff…

tink — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:48:31 +0000

Yarn Crawl… 4 days of sales and raffles and door prizes and demonstrations and trunk shows…

Thursday, March 15 – Sunday, March 18…

Yarns in the Farms will be open special hours… Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 9:30 am to 6 pm, and Sunday from 12 to 5.

We have several grand prizes, complete project yardage for some of our favorite in store designs, donated by some of our favorite fiber friends:

Shibui, Classic Elite, HPKY, Tahki Stacy Charles, Blue Heron, Westminster, Misti Alpaca, Louet, Knit Collage…

Special guests:

Friday, March 16, in the afternoon we will host Kathleen Dames, NYC knitwear designer, who will have her new patterns and a trunk show of samples…

Saturday, March 17, we will host Knit Collage creator Amy Small, whom many of you have met before at Yarns in the Farms. New colors and fibers!

Throughout the event we will be demonstrating techniques that are guaranteed to change your life.

Y’all come on.

Yarn Crawl time again!

tink — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:28:12 +0000

Y’all come on!

The Yarn Crawl is coming to town…4 days of fiber delirium and great deals.

Like the circus but better.

Yarns in the Farms will have lots of give-aways… including complete yarn yardage for skirts, dresses, cardigans! So many yarn shops, so little time…

Special guest Amy Small from Knit Collage will join us Saturday, March 17, with gorgeous hand-spun fibers and new designs…

Knit Collage… Attitude for Springtime!

tink — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:09:32 +0000

Masai Tribal knits… wild African dogs…

tink — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:29:55 +0000

Like most knitters, when my sister Jeannine and I travel, we always carry extra yarn, just in case. Here is Jeannine with her Masai guides in Tanzania, donning their hand-knit beanies, made on the spot by my sister. What a great way to connect with people!

And here is the fierce South African weenie dog, Sizzles, in his new hand-knit sweater.

Paint Ship Skirt!

tink — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:09:23 +0000

I love paint chips… and I love how organized they are in my favorite paint store, Waters and Brown. They are so hopeful , so full of endless possibility. They inspire. Here is Tink’s new design, based on the humble paint chip. Patterns and kits available now!

Lookie here, Sean at Waters and Brown helped us out with the recyclable packaging!

Astrid, Around the World!

tink — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I am addicted to knitting Joji’s Astrid scarf. So elegant, so clean, so simple. And while I love the actual project, that is, the “SCARF”, I simply love making it. The Bobbles are so fun and suggest myriad other uses… cushion edging, window treatments, shelf adornment, chair skirts…

Here she is in Guatemala…

And again in Guatemala…

Overlooking the Indian Ocean…

And in the Khayalitsa Township, Cape Town, South Africa… Where ladies are weaving out of old tee shirts! They loved how the Astrid fringe enhanced a jiggling bedonkeydonk!

African Flaminco Floofy Skirt

tink — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:19:22 +0000

While on safari in Africa, Anna knit. On the Jeep. With the armed guide driving her along rocky roads with lions and leopards and other really crazy wild creatures with stripes and spots and long ridiculous trunks. There were birds with flamboyant ruffles! There were antelope with hairy plumes sprouting from their spines! She was inspired!

Meanwhile, Mommy had been swooning over this photo of an ensemble from a magazine. Ruffles and leopard print shoes. Wild Thang.

Mommy got so far as to make this little swatch for Barbie. More swooning ensued. It was getting to be a bother.

Inspired by the safari and the armed driver and the zebras and giraffes and ruffles and cotton and needles, Anna whipped up this African Floofy Skirt for Mommy. Stop swooning already!

Wild thang… in an African village.

And at home.

Fast and Furious, Furry, Fuzzy, Floofy, and Flouncy…

tink — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:24:07 +0000

1 skein Triana Scarf (here’s a tutorial video) This is so cool!!!

1 skein Kidsilk Creations Scarf (tutorial video) This is even cooler!

1 skein Bouquet hat… just cast on 54 st on a #15 circular needle and slide the flowers along and knit ‘em into the place you want ‘em.

Floofy Hat… With curly homespun at the crown.

1 skein Fuzzy Pearls Scarf… Cast on 6 on #15 double points, and make a long i-cord.

Yummy…

Guatemala Goofballs get floofy

tink — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:26:45 +0000