We went to Texas last weekend!
Expect a more detailed post tomorrow!
Jan 252012
Dec 092011
Tree is up. It’s DH’s first REAL tree Christmas. Hopefully we’ll get the decorations on tonight:
Nov 302011
I’m currently suffering from a shawl addiction.
I have knit two Phenomenally in the past 3 weeks, and am currently plowing through my first Juneberry Triangle. Love. Here are some progress shots for Juneberry:
I have 10 rows to go before the knit on edging. Maybe by the end of next week I’ll have a FO post lined up. I have some more of this yarn in the Wine colorway (yes, I bought the colorway that was used in the actual pattern) that will be the second shawl. Also lined up is Idlewood, a KAL I’m falling behind on with my knitting group, a pair of endpaper mitts, and another sample knit for the wonderful Heather. Thank goodness for 2 weeks off at the end of December!
So here’s my stash enhancement:
A few extra skeins of natural yarn from Wild Apple Hill Farm:
A sweaters worth of Teal also from Wild Apple Hill Farm – the plan for this is Idlewood – our knitting group is planning a small knit-a-long:
A sweater’s worth of Shepherd’s Wool from Stonehedge Fiber Mill:
I’m currently knitting Dark & Stormy out of this yarn, it’s a new worsted weight favorite – it feels like superwash but it isn’t. Love the hand of the yarn, the knitted fabric, the colors. Everything.
And the real score for the weekend (well not if you are talking to our JessaLu): 1330 yards of sport weight alpaca for …. $45!
I’m planning on either knitting the Dahlia cardigan designed by our Heather or the Leaving cardigan from Twist Collective. I want to finish Dark and Stormy first – I’m 2 inches away from splitting off the sleeves.
All in all, well thought out purchases at Rhinebeck this year – I’ve clearly been chomped on by the sweater bug as I didn’t buy ANY sock yarn! The goal for this year is to knit all of this up by next year’s Rhinebeck. Not sure how that is going to work, being that I have yarn still from last year. Oops.
Another year another Rhinebeck is in the books. This year, we took our Peggy (Maggyruth) on ravelry, with us for her first Rhinebeck. Our usual hotel was booked so we resorted to staying at the hotel next to the one that we stayed at for the Les Mills Poughkeepsie Quarterly in September.
Purchases were mostly sweater based – as the bug has bitten me hard! But for me, Rhinebeck is about seeing my fiber friends. Some photographic proof:
Sharon, Jessalu, and me!
My knitting group was well represented!
Dr. Maggie (redmaggie on ravelry) and me!
Ann Weaver and me!
This last photo, of me and Ann Weaver, was hilarious. It was around 5 pm on Saturday, after having been up until 2 am finishing up my Oranje, getting up at 6:30 am, I was a true space cadet. Ann came over and introduced herself and I had no idea who she was when she first walked up – talk about feeling like an idiot. She loved my Oranje and took a photo with me. We also got to see her new book, White Whale Vol. 1, a collection of patterns based on Moby Dick. Fantastic.
There was also a plurk meet – up, where Sharon and I did a few barrel turns:
Barrel turn photo by Heather Zoppetti
And I made a sparkly plurk sign, check out Mo’s photo of the group! It was great to meet everyone!
We’re already planning for next year! Photos of the purchases will come tomorrow – I’ve already started my next sweater too! Oranje post should happen on Monday, I need to make it pretty with a bath and a zipper install!
Oct 132011
Don’t mind me, I’m just yelling at the birds outside.
Sep 302011
Sep 292011
You want what now?
Oh. That'll do.
I’ve made it to the interesting part of Oranje - the colorwork! Here’s after the first pass of stripes on the yoke:
And here’s a close up of the joggless stripey:
Not too bad if I say so myself.
I have 16 days to finish the sweater – I’m not doing the button closure, instead opting for a zipper. Thanks to the super tutorial that I found on Google+, I hope that it will be a breeze. Nothing else is really moving on the needles currently – I’m about to start a mini KAL for some endpaper mitts to burn up some more stash yarn (YAY). I’ll post about that later this week.
Aug 272011
So as part of our great “weekend” in the Berkshires, Sharon and I headed to WEBS on our way home. It was Sharon’s first time at WEBS (hard to believe!) and we had a blast:
I managed to only buy 5 skeins of yarn and have one photo to show for it -
3 skeins of MadelineTosh Vintage in the Lepidoptra colorway. We’re planning a mini-KAL of Watershed (ravelry link). I can’t wait to get started. Clearly I’m on a pink kick?
I also picked up another skein of cascade 220 in Royal and an extra skein of Cascade 220 sport in Jet for my Oranje cardi. Here’s a progress shot for those playing along at home:
I’m working my way through the waist shaping and just started my second skein of the pink yarn. Maybe I can finish the body by the end of the weekend thanks to the stupid hurricane.
