FOs :)

I spent a fair amount of time knitting the last week and especially this weekend and I have some loverly stuff to show for it :)


This is a dishcloth I made for a dishcloth exchange. It's Bernat CottonTots in color sweet green. My recipient has a light mint green kitchen, and that's pretty much exactly how I would describe this color :) I like the stitch pattern I chose. It was mailed off to her today - I hope she loves it!


This is a ridiculously easy knit scarf for my sister for Christmas. I got the yarn, Crystal Palace's Kiddo in color Violet, in the discount bin at my LYS when they were going out of business. It is her favorite colors...purple and green...and it is ridiculously soft. It was just plain ol' knit stitch on really large needles (size 17's I think) so it's loose and soft and warm and delicious. I think she's going to adore it :)


And finally, the grand prize of things I've knit thus far, my cabled purse. I've been participating in a knit purse swap for the last few months and this is what I'm sending to my secret pal!!! I am SOOOOO proud of this bag :) I love the first picture; you can see the cable definition really well there...but it's actually the color of the second picture...medium dark grey. I can't remember the name of the yarn off the top of my head, I'll post it later :)

The purse was supposed to be mailed on the 15th, lol. Oh well, it's a bit late, but I think it's worth it :) I hope she LOVES it as much as I do.... I am going to have to make another one for myself, lol :D :D :D

Next up? A few more dishcloths for christmas presents, a scarf for my mother and finishing spinning a skein of alpaca for my Aunt :)

Rumor Has It.....

Also, I was at Michael's this weekend and I touched Paton's Rumor yarn for the first time....

Just in case anyone might want to buy me a present *bats eyelashes* I would love some Rumor in the color "Fern Heather" *bats eyelashes*

Hello! Alpaca! ~

YARNY GOODNESS!!!!!!!

In love with fiber.....

I am just so excited about my project that I finished this weekend!!!

I made myself a KICK-ASS fiber arts center in my living room!!!!!! It just...gah. It's amazing...and it's not even done yet :P I ended up going with some furniture from California Closets to hold the yarn, knitting tools, spindles and fiber. It is just...there are no words for how cool it is :) I still need to get a tray to hold my knitting needles, some clear bags to hold the fiber (I bought them on eBay, waiting for their arrival) and I need to exchange the cup hooks I got for smaller ones to hang the spindles. Then, it will be officially done!

I'm excited though, so I will post some before and during pictures here to show you the progress...but I'll save the full-on amazingness for another day this week when it's complete.

I'm in LOVE with my new fiber arts center ;)

This is my living room corner before the fiber arts center was installed :) Just yer average, kinda sparce living room...and yes, that's Scot in the bottom corner :P


Then, this is my pile of yarn, AFTER purging what I didn't want, lol. I actually didn't have as much as I thought I did....


This is a sneak peak of the final product...hehe...just cause I'm one of those people who can't keep surprises :P

Octopus anyone?

I either have way too many hobbies or else I need to mutate and grow a few more arms :)

This weekend, I knit on a purse for my purse swap pal, a fun and easy scarf for my sister's christmas gift, and a dishcloth for my dishcloth swap pal. I also spun some alpaca, some opossum/wool and looked at the silk. I ALSO bought some stuff to make beaded stitch charms to hand out to swap pals and to use myself.

I'm thinkin' the octopus look is the thing ;)

Cables Ho!

Still knitting away...I'm loving this pattern and it's ridiculously easy to knit :) I'm having problems with ladders in the first two stitches after each cable and it's frustrating, but I'll figure it out. I've already gotten a lot of good feedback from folks on how to fix them :)

I also started spinning my alpaca today at my Spindles & Flyer's Meeting...good googly wooglie! That stuff spins up like a DREAM! I think Alpaca is my new favorite thing to spin *swoon*

Okay, so I don't have a picture to share, because I'm at work. But I'm just so jazzed with myself :) I just finished the first cable round in something I'm making for someone!!!!!

It's my first time even attempting cables and gosh, it's so very easy! I'm sure there are harder cables than 3x3 twisty cable that I'm making, but the item I'm making is literally all cables running up it on all sides, so the twist row is a lot of twists, lol.

I feel very accomplished and excited to finish this bag and show off my kick-ass cables :P

My LYS is closing down :( I used to go in there almost weekly to fondle this skein of alpaca yarn they had. Haven't gone in a few weeks for one reason and another and *gasp* HUGE "Liquidation sale!" banner in the window *sob*

I ran in to find out the story (and peruse the yarn) but alas, all the alpaca in the whole store had been snatched up by one woman the week before....

Everything was 25% off, so I medicated my sadness by augmenting my stash with quite a bit of lovely yarn :) I found the black alpaca in the bargain bin, so it was 40% off! I don't know what it's destiny is, but it is alpaca and super soft and 40% off...so it had to come home with me :) The orange and olive green merino (sooooooooo soft and amazing colors!) are destined to become some arm warmers/fingerless gloves because my new office at work is cold *shiver* The soft brown Merino is maybe another pair of fingerless gloves...or maybe something else, I'm not sure yet :) It was just too soft and too good a price to pass up :)


I also got a new toy last week *gleefully rubbing hands together*

Can you guess what it was?


You guessed it! A yarn ball winder!!! I've been winding up balls of yarn like a mad woman. My son even got in the action and loves turning the hand-crank on the machine while I hold the skeins to wind. It's just so fun and I LOVE LOVE LOVE the little compact hockey pucks of yarn I end up with :) So much easier to store, easier to manage, easier to use :)

Yay for new crafty purchases!

I also sent out my Spin/Roving Swap secret pal's box today. I forgot to take a picture before boxing it up, but I found her this beautiful merino wool/tussah silk blended roving in purples and blues and all sorts of beautiful colors. I hope she likes it! It's super difficult to purchase roving for someone who likes painted/colored roving when you do not! But I know she likes the colors in the mix and she said she'd like to try something with a bit of shine to it, so the silk part makes it shiny :) I also sent her a set of DPNs for sock knitting, some sock shaped point protectors, two patterns for possible things to knit with the spun yarn and I peppered the box with Ghirardelli dark chocolate. She loves dark chocolate and the Ghirardelli is made in my hometown, so I thought it was a fitting addition :) I hope she loves her surprise box as much as I loved mine :)