We know many of our Lost City Knits customers are concentrating on others this month. Maybe you’re gift knitting or maybe you’re shopping like mad. But a new year begins in just over three weeks, and so does 11 Shawls in 2011 on Ravelry. We want you to be ready. We’re debuting two new colorways,…
DetailsFor over twenty years people have been marking their calendar each year for the Tulsa Herb Society’s Carols & Crumpets. This Saturday from 8am to 3pm this popular holiday shopping event will be held at the Tulsa Garden Center located at 24th and Peoria in Midtown Tulsa. Lost City Knits will be there along with…
DetailsAs a special thank you to Lost City Knits online customers, we’ll be including a copy of the Generations Scarf/Stole pattern with each order placed through the end of 2010. Whether you’re stash enhancing or giving the gift of creativity through knitting to a friend or family member (or hinting to your loved one that…
DetailsDesert Southwest Vacation Part Two Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico Leaving the beautiful parks of Utah and making our way toward Taos on Utah Hwy 261 we took one of the most hair raising roads of the trip and probably my life (rivaled only by those skinny winding cliffside roads in Ireland). Sure there…
DetailsThe morning is glistening here on the farm as the sun shoots off the bits of ice and frost that covers limbs and grass. Numerous friends of mine are running 5K races in below freezing temperatures. Not me, once upon a time I did such things. Some are shopping and may have been for hours.…
DetailsHappy Thanksgiving to all of my US friends. I hope your holiday is filled with warmth and joy. 2010 Desert Southwest VacationPart One Our Friday morning started with a little flurry as we rushed around putting together our Oklahoma Food Coop order to drop off at Chef Teri’s kitchen. She’d graciously agreed to hold our…
DetailsIt feels so good to be back home! Vacation in the Desert Southwest was wonderful in so many ways – good food, nice people and incredible natural sights. Just what you want from a get away, right? There was even time to knit in the car. In fact, I almost finished my Daenerys Shawl on…
DetailsAs of Friday 12 November I’ll be on vacation meandering and hiking around Utah and New Mexico where no doubt I will find inspiration for new colorways – or maybe just get lost in the beauty of the desert Southwest. It’s happened before. According to my father I’ve been to Arches National Park before, but…
DetailsWherever we end up going on vacation (Yes the plan is morphing into a different trip because of a low of 11 degrees in Taos. Tonight’s low is 7 degrees. What were we thinking?) my hands will be toasty in my Buffalo Gal mittens. They’re finally done. Just to jazz them up a little I…
DetailsAnjou Scarf There is an obscene amount of knit preparation (piddling) going on in advance of our vacation. No I didn’t cast on three new lace projects to take with me. I cast on one, well two – but I already frogged one so it doesn’t count. That other baggie is purely a protective measure.…
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