By Madame Purl, on September 12th, 2011 So last week starting on Thursday, the fun began… first up the Madison Quilt show. This is my second year and it was as awesome as I remember. More so maybe because now I’m hooked on quilting. We shopped, we ate well, we looked at quilts, and learned a lot. Too much stash came home… [...]
By Madame Purl, on May 17th, 2011 So the weather was crummy around here last weekend, but it didn’t stop us from going to a local quilt show over the weekend. I had a blast checking out some local and not so local stores wares and picked out some yummy things to come home with me.
I’d say the quilting, [...]
By Madame Purl, on January 8th, 2011 Edited to add: Sorry this pattern has a copyright on it. I’m not able to share it. I haven’t knit it, so I won’t be parting with my copy any time soon.
I may be crazy, but when I saw this from Knit Picks –
I had to have it.
This is the [...]
By Madame Purl, on September 13th, 2010 Julie and I had another lovely visit. I think it may take me a week to recuperate this time. However, while I do I will have some lovely roving to play with. I also picked up a couple of books – the new Portuguese Knitting one and the new Estonian Mittens All Around the world [...]
By Madame Purl, on August 21st, 2010 Stitches Midwest 2010 was a blast. Even though I have a massive stash – a few balls (Miss Babs on the left and Opal at a good deal on the right), more needles (the 2.5 and 2.75 that I never seem to have enough of) and some more of those great puppy snips followed me [...]
By Madame Purl, on July 17th, 2010 Friday some friends and I headed out to Midwest Fiber & Folk Art Festival. We had a great time at their new venue. We all came home with new goodies. The bag was a freebie and a very nice one indeed.
I know I don’t need any more fleece… but this BFL in deep [...]
By Madame Purl, on July 15th, 2010 Sorry for the delay… DH and I went to Chicago for the weekend and by the time I got back I fell under the weather. I’m starting to fell better again and to top off a nice morning, I arrived home and found the fleeces… here a day early. Yippee!!!
Of course the wool [...]
By Madame Purl, on May 29th, 2010 I ask you… who could resist a close-out sale on Claudia’s? We’re talking 50% off here folks.
These followed me home.
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