Girls and Color and Fluff, Oh My!!

Since there are no rules, I guess I can brag about my own projects. This sweater was SO much fun to make. The constant change of colors and texture made it one of those projects that you can't put down. It was purchased as a kit from Fancy Image Yarn, which includes some of Myra's hand dyed yarn, the pattern by
Knitting Pure & Simple, AND the buttons. It is knit from the neck down, so there is no sewing involved. You gotta love that! There are a lot of ends due to the changes of the yarn and the pattern says you can leave them, but I just couldn't so I wove in every last one. Does that also count as breaking a rule? Now, all I need is a little girl to "strut her stuff" wearing this sweater. Knit on!

Warm Feet

Well here I am. A winter evening with one cat on my lap my 85 pound dog on the couch next to me with his head also on my lap and two balls of yarn. Kitty is trying desperately to be good and not chew on the dangling strand of yarn. I'm working on another pair of socks. Wearing socks that I've made give me great satisfaction. It makes me feel if the world ran out of socks tomorrow and I had a few sheep, I probably would still have warm feet.

If You Must Know...

Whose bag is in Lilly's milkbox, guess no more. It's mine. If it wasn't for this magic milkbox I wouldn't have socks on my feet, scarves wrapped around my neck, or a one of a kind beaded ipod bag. I've made more trips to this box than I care to admit. I'm worried what the neighbors think when they see me drive up in my black vehicle, scurry to the front porch with a non-descript white grocery sack or my new cool sock bag (gift from Lilly), make my "drop", jump in my car only to return the next day for the "pickup". I've been known to repeat this process twice in one weekend. Those were in the early day's when I was considered a junior knitter. Now that I have this fancy schmancy sock bag I feel my ranking should be somewhere around "Advanced", since I do have one sock completed and another one in the bag. Uhh, I mean box.

A Milkbox Surprise

My milkbox amazes me! I thought it was the greatest that it actually fixes knitting problems, but the other night, I opened it and there was a GIFT inside! Maybe the "fix it fairy" thought she should pay rent? Anyway, it was a beautiful ball of sock yarn! It's called Tofutsies and made by the South West Trading Company

The amazing thing about this yarn is that one of the fibers is "Chitin". This is a fiber derived from Crab and Shrimp shells! It is very soft and knits 8sts/1". Of course I immediately had to get out my needles and start using it. My color is lime green, turquoise, and hot pink (#718). I absolutely love it! Thank you "O" magic milkbox!