This week I have been at The Yarn Room every day while the main event was happening at the RDS at the ‘Itch and Scratch Show’.
Everybody seems to have had a blast up there while I have had a few moments to myself. There is just nothing like a Wall of Wool and time to [...]
Hyperbolic Ashford Beanie © Irene Lundgaard
The last few days I have been working The Wall Of Yarn quite a lot and I have been fired up with ideas and have designed a wee beanie and managed to sneak a little Hyperbolic Crochet Sphere on to it too. I have worked in Ístex Létt-Lopi but the [...]
It is always stimulating to be among “one’s people”, as NicKnits would say. It is particularly stimulating when it is people that are smart and even able to communicate their smartness either in words or in yarn. When they are able to combine the two, it becomes pure magic. Yesterday at the Science Gallery was [...]
The Hyperbolic Coral Reef Workshop is happening tomorrow in the Science Gallery and I am so exited to have a ticket and I am so looking forward to being in the presence of Margaret Wertheim of The Institute For Figuring herself. She is a brilliant communicator and her environmental message is a good one, particularly [...]
The Wicklow People came to the shop launch of The Yarn Room last Saturday and this is what they wrote.
I have this funny feeling that I am not the one who got the last laugh… ;-)
And now, back to the 15 mm hook!
On Thursday last the Wicklow Yarnies met to be filmed for The Afternoon Show on RTÉ 1. The piece will be aired tomorrow afternoon – Tuesday 20th – sometime between 4pm and 5:45pm.
We already know that they thought we came across really well and seemed to be having a good time. However, time will tell [...]
It’s not that this crocheter is the gloating type. At all at all! ;-)
I am posting this picture simply to show the point where the Crocheting Speed Knitting Champion is handed the lovely knitting bag that Shankillknitter (Ravelry link) has designed and made to perfection. It’s just the right size and the handles are [...]
The launch of The Yarn Room was on last night and there was wine and yarn and cake and finger food and women and men and a heck of a lot of knitting needles and delicious yarn and colours and warm lights and as per usual just the one crochet hook, namely mine.
There was blind [...]
I have fallen seriously and deeply for Irish yarns, particularly the Double Knitting and the 4 ply yarn from Cushendale in Kilkenny. The stitch definition is wonderful and the colour tone and saturation is simply second to none.
I ran up a pumpkin in it the other day just for the fun of it and obviously [...]
This week is all about yarn with classes here, there and yonder and getting more and more people hooked on crochet. Tomorrow is even more yarn at The Yarn Room and then there will be classes again on Saturday both for beginners and intermediates and to complete the week we finish off with a yarn [...]
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