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I'm Roxi, the owner of Lamb's Ear.

Reggie, the Yarn Shop Dog.

I'm a Knitting Grandma

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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Happy Birthday To Lamb's Ear!

We just celebrated our 8th birthday. Tonight, at our weekly knitting MeetUp group, we partied with a potluck dinner, cake, champagne, and puppies. That's right, puppies. And what's a birthday party without presents? We had lots of door prizes and no one went home empty handed. I think a good time was had by all. If you missed tonight's festivities, don't worry, we have pictures.

Our birthday cake, courtesy of Frederick and Meyers.
It was a marble cake with really pretty flowers that reminded me of mums.

Some of the yummy potluck food.
Knitters love to eat : )

Here are those puppies I mentioned. See the fat blond one on the right?
I'd love him to be a baby brother for Reggie,
but I'm afraid Rick and Reggie wouldn't go for it.

And here's the proud momma.
Her name's Penny and this is her first litter.
Doesn't it look as if she's beaming with pride?

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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Damn, It's Cold

I know it's almost summer but you wouldn't know it by our weather here in good 'ol Tacoma. Reggie is all curled up on top of the heater vent, so you know it must be chilly. It's put a little bit of a damper on my dyeing but I did manage to sneak in 5 skeins this week. They're available for sale and you can view them on my Etsy account by looking over on the left hand margin of this blog. If the weather cooperates there should be more coming by this weekend. Hang in there, summer will arrive eventually. Sometime after July 4th. Sigh.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Sharing Some Sea Shell Stuff

Say that 5 times fast.

I haven't had any opportunity to dye this week, so I've been knitting with hand dyed yarn as the next best thing. I started with 440 yards of worsted weight yarn in Sea Shells. I was able to knit one adult sock (I only need one for display) and one child's size 1 cardigan. These items were knit single strand with the same dye lot. I did not alternate between skeins. As you can see, the yarn did not pool and both items match. The fact that it didn't pool has me quite excited, as that was one of my pet peeves regarding hand dyed or variegated yarns. Today I began knitting the Shoalwater Shawl from Fiber Trends using some of my hand dyed lace weight yarn. I'll let you know how it turns out. Lace isn't usually something I yearn to knit but using hand dyed yarn makes it much more appealing.

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Monday, June 04, 2007
More Dyeing Fun

I've been enjoying the recent nice weather. Plenty of time to play in the dyes. Although I can't say the weather cooperated today. Still, I did manage to get some more dyeing done. It just isn't drying very fast. Here are some of the completed skeins that will be put out for sale tomorrow.

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Friday, June 01, 2007
A Whole Lotta Crock Pot Fun

That's what I've been having today. I'm getting ready for the crock pot dye class. This is the skein of lace weight yarn that came out of the pot today. It turned out gorgeous, if I do say so myself. I love it when they have a lot of contrast like this one does. The thing about crock pot dyeing is that every skein is absolutely unique and can't be reproduced. This skein is 100 grams of lace weight merino yarn, 1375 yards. Enough for a lace shawl. The skein is available for sale at $35(does not include shipping).