Yarngerie

Holy cow! What a weekend!! The Chicago Yarn Crawl began on Saturday and I made a very ambitious schedule for myself. There were several shops I walked into for the first time and a few favorites I gleefully visited. I'll get into more details later in the week but between visiting 13 shops over two days, wrangling little boys, and getting this week's ducks in a row, there wasn't much room for stitching. But I have several lovely new skeins that I'm petting and many othe

Being the over inspired yarn lover that I am, I always have at least one crochet project and one knit project going at any given time. Right now, I have 3 knit projects and 2 crochet WIPS in view. Um...make that 3 crochet projects now that I look again. I haven't started that additional one yet but I have the yarn wound and it's taunting me. What can I say? I just have play with all these yarns!! To keep it simple and not allow myself to ramble on too much, I'll tell y

Just recently, I took a beginning photography class. It was very basic and taught us how to better use our DSLR cameras. The teacher asked us to go around, say our names, and what we most liked to photograph. A few people said their kids, one lovely woman said nature and her new grandchild that is due in a few months, another said her miniature horse, and then it got to me. “Hi! I’m Aimée and I like to take pictures of my yarn.” Everyone stopped and the teacher simply sai