a portion of leafy greens…

I am still on a knitting break this week…

45g of 100% merino wool roving

handspun into singles

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look how kool is that…

I am taking a bit of knitting break, so that I can play with some Kool-Aid and fiber.

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what’s on the stix…

I haven’t been feeling well at all this week…crossing the different time zones from to Milan to Toronto to London and back to Dublin has finally caught up with me. I am mainly catching up on my sleep and organising my digital photos from all our travels since April. Presently, I am working [...]

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summer solstice: 20.06.2008 @ 2359h

The beginning of the summer season…

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the travel series…on flight knitting

I use to dread the flights over the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans until I started knitting. This is optimal knitting time. My non-knitting friends ask, “How/what do you knit on an airplane?”
Once the aircraft takes off, and the seatbelt light switches off, I either cast on my stitches for a pair [...]

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contest deadline coming up…

don’t forget to send in your blog link for the “Look what I did on WWKiP Day” Contest

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WWKiP Day in London…

The Spouse loves to organise our weekend getaway. When he planned our June weekend away a few months ago, he did not realise that it would be the WWKiP Day weekend. He encouraged me to look up the WWKiP Day events in London, so I joined a couple of the UK’s Ravelry groups [...]

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14.06.08

Happy World Wide Knit in Public Day! Take your camera along today, snap a few pics of how your spent WWKiP Day and enter your photo in a contest sponsored by Chic with Stix’s sister blog, Dublin Knit Collective.

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The travel series…packing for your trip

The Adventures of the Knitting Tourist:  Traveling with Chic with Stix
The Travel Series: Packing for your trip
With the summer traveling season thrust upon us, a day does not go by when a new discussion thread or post pops up the knitting discussion boards. Questions like, “Who has travelled recently through London Heathrow [...]

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The travel series…planning your trip to the yarn shop

The Adventures of a Knitting Tourist:  Traveling with Chic with Stix
The Travel Series: Planning your trip
The Spouse and I enjoy going away for the weekend. These weekend trips have taken us to Belfast, London and Milan. We are well-seasoned weekend travellers. The Spouse arranges and confirms our destination for our trip away [...]

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