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- WHERE TO FIND US:
Quick post-Rhinebeck update:
It was wonderful, and I swear I'm going to blog about it soon. No, really, I am! But right now I'm getting ready to head out to SOAR, so realistically it'll probably be a week or two before I get these pages updated to reflect all the new items promised below. They'll be available for ordering before that, though - so if you want to sign up for the 2010 Tsock Flock Club or to order any of the new kits, check the
HOLIDAY YARNS site for imminent updates.
I'm going to SOAR as a participant, not as an official vendor. But I will have prototypes of some of the Tsocks with me and will be more than happy to chat about things Tsockish (or anything else), so if you're going to be there too, come talk to me! |
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LAUNCHING AT
RHINEBECK:
SIGN-UPS
in the booth for the 2010 TSOCK FLOCK CLUB!
(You can't sign up on-line yet, but we'll get that organized once we recover from Rhinebeck.
Meanwhile... club members - including brand new ones - don't forget to claim your 10% discount on
Holiday Yarns and Tsarina of Tsocks purchases in the booth!)
Three NEW RELEASES from the 2008 Club
season:
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And here I prophesy: this brawl today,
Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
Shall send, between the Red Rose and the White,
A
thousand souls to death and deadly
night.
Also debuting at Rhinebeck: the Fingerless
Mitts
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Remember last summer?
Remember how you sat out on the deck toward sunset, and the breeze ruffled your hair, and you watched the boats coming in..? Remember how nobody was in a hurry for anything? Remember how you turned to look for the pool boy, and he was already on his way to you with another beautiful frozen drink? |
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Now - let's talk business, just you and me. What are you, Jack Rance? A gambler. Johnson? A bandit. Me? I own a bar and a gambling den, I live off whiskey and gold. We're all the same! All bandits and cardsharps. Tonight you've demanded an answer from me. Well, then - here’s my stake. I’m offering you this man - and my life! One game of poker! If you win, you can take him - and me. But if I win - on the honor of Jack Rance, gentleman - then this man is mine, MINE! |
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- NEW! Second release from the 2008 Club season:
(I don't have my detail page up yet for this - THAT part is still "Coming Soon" - but the kit is available now from Holiday Yarns.)
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The setting sun behind her made a
pathway on the sea, stretching to the far
horizon, and presently the smudge took shape and
form, and she saw the curious raking masts of a
ship.b Suddenly the sails caught the breeze and
filled, bellied out in the wind, lovely and
white and free, the setting sun caught the
painted ship in a gleam of gold, and silently,
stealthily, leaving a long dark ripple behind
her, the ship stole in towards the land. And a
feeling came upon Dona, as though a hand had
touched her heart, and a voice whispered in her
brain, "I shall remember this.” |
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- NEW! First release from the 2008 Club season:
FIREBIRD
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The magical bird that can light a dark room
with the brightness of its plumage.
It kills deathless demons;
it restores the dead to life. Capture the elusive Firebird; hold it fast until it promises to stand your friend. The journey will be long and the obstacles daunting, but the magical creature will bring you good fortune at last. |
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- Kits Launched at Rhinebeck 2008!
Three of the kits from the
2007 Club made their public debuts at Rhinebeck and are available for
on-line ordering:
Also... here at last by popular demand...
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- NEW! Second of the 2007 club kits: The COOKIE'S GARDEN
sock
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"Aunt Cookie's garden has become a sort of
reseeding mecca. The plants settle where they feel like
it. Since my last visit, I notice that the coreopsis has
moved several arcs in a clockwise direction, while the
dill is spread indiscriminately from compost pile to
rosebush."
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Robin Chotzinoff,
People with Dirty Hands |
A sock inspired
by my mother and her garden.... |
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- NEW! First of the 2007 club kits: The CLEOPATRA
sock
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AGE CANNOT WITHER HER,
NOR CUSTOM STALE
HER INFINITE
VARIETY
A sock inspired by the last of the Ptolemaic Pharaohs.... |
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- The VINTAGE sock
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When I was young, at my mother's breast -
Sing ho! for the wind and the rain!
A vintage wine was my sole request,
For the rain it rain'd and rain'd ev'ry day....
A sock inspired by the
autumn grape harvest, and by Falstaff's
brindisi; a sock that cradles your foot in
unimaginable
comfort. |
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- KITRI'S MANTILLA
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You always knew that Kitri would be a shawl someday; now it is. A tremendous sweeping shawl, fans within a fan, decadent beading dripping from the edges.
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- The Tcirc-Keeper
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Simple but eloquent: - keep your WIP on your needles;
- keep your needles from poking through your bag;
- protect your pretty
wooden or bamboo needles from
damage.
What's not to love?
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- Coming Soon: New kit designs:
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In tribute to January and Janus, our
celebration of duality:
the SWAN
LAKE felted boot. |
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- Free Pattern: The BLUE
STOCKING
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full-size image of cover)
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A sexy, saucy, slightly silly sock with a
more than passing resemblance to the fishnet
stockings of yesteryear; a tribute to Knitters’
Suffrage and the Power of Knitters. To women who
Own Their Knitting. To Knitters Who Represent.
Blue
Stocking is a FREE pattern - a PDF available for download.
You can
see more pictures of the finished sock on my
blog at: Love is Blue. For more on the
development of the sock, read Knitting the Blues (yarn porn
and initial idea), That Dratted Helen (heel
detail), and Behind the Veil (stitch
pattern).
Read Blue Stocking Pattern Update
(and Am I Blue?) for still more details.
NEW!!!! The Blue Stocking is now available as a direct PDF download from my Ravelry Store!
(Thank you thank you thank you Casey!)
You do not have to be a Ravelry member to use this link.
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If you have any problems downloading, contact me (tsocktsarina AT tsocktsarina DOT com) and I will see you right.
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- Meanwhile, as ever: The original sock
kits:
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And as always, if you have questions
about, or problems with, any of the patterns,
please drop
me a note at info@tsocktsarina.com,
and
I'll be happy to answer them, resolve them,
or puzzle them
out with you, as the case may be.
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