yarn and knitting and maracas

Did I mention that I won a contest last week?  No?  Well, I did!  And my spoils prize arrived Saturday! Look at that cute giftcard!  Jennie, I’m totally going to copy you and create some of my own!  Also going to copy you on those super-cool kneehighs!  Yum!  I knew the yarn was coming because [...]

I got tagged!

The box arrived today from my Dish Rag Tag team, the Happy Yarn Hags! I am the last person on the list to receive the box, and it was really cool to open it up and see the messages from all over the country But it was even cooler to see the dishrag and surprises Mary [...]

Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too?

I’ve gone sign-up crazy! I’ll be participating in Melanie’s new lace KAL!  Me and 3,000 other knitters.  Oy!  Funny thing is, I just bought Melanie’s Leda’s Dream pattern and started it on the drive to the beach with steel Zephyr from the stash.  I’m about six inches in, but I think I want to use the Zephyr [...]

Eye Candy Fern

Oh!  Look at the happy little fern! Awww, and he has a tiny grasshopper friend! Aren’t they sweet? AAAAAAACCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!  Let’s hope the world is never taken over by giantized grasshoppers.  Pretty scary stuff! Thanks to everyone for your support in the fleece incident of ’07.  I’m pretty much over it now and really just needed [...]

Focused, I tell you! Focused!!!

I have to be focused, and let me show you why.  Look what arrived in the mail yesterday from Abby. This is what I saw when I first unfolded the batt. Then I saw this. Then I unfolded it all the way and saw this.  Couldn’t you just EAT it?!?!  She said she was sending [...]

Well butter my niblets!

  Part I:  Quite some time ago, I spun up some Ashland Bay roving on my spindle and the finished mini-skein reminded me of olives.  So I got out my camera, martini glasses and the multitude of vodka bottles we happen to possess (when you have a Stock the Bar party for your engagement, everyone [...]

Resistance was futile

Sometimes there’s a project wtih an allure so strong, colors so bright, construction so simple yet fascinating, that it doesn’t matter if you have ninety-eleven projects already on the needles, you simply MUST cast on!  Such is how I feel about the Chevron Scarf.  I mean, check out those photos!  Doesn’t that make you want to knit one?  [...]

Wee Tiny Sock!

Look at the pretty packaging!  (I’m all about packaging – must be the French part of my ancestry).  Look at that beautiful sock!!!!!  It’s from Alley, a new knitter, a new blogger, and a new friend!  Can you believe she tackled a Wee Tiny Sock for her FIRST sock, and she did it out of [...]

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