Oops... Happy Blogiversary!

Happy 2nd Blogiversary to me!!!!!!!!!!


Wow I almost forgot! Well I guess almost a month late is better than never ;-)

Thanks to anyone who actually reads my blog, and thanks to anyone who has ever left a comment!!!! You all make me feel special in the vast vastness of cyberspace!

Happy New Year everyone!

Yarn yarn yarn yarn

So the best Christmas present of all was the opening of a LYS in Fort Wayne... we had been without one for many many months after the closing of Cass Street Depot. But So far, "Knitting off Broadway" seems to be a hit!!!!

I bought some Cashsoft for fetching or other gifts:


And some of this "Burly Spun" from the Brown sheep company, hopefully to make one of the Yarn Harlot's unoriginal hats:


Woot!!!! It is so nice to be able to get fancy yarn and not have to pay shipping again!

I also got a skein of Dream in Color Classy (colorway "Spring Tickle") through Designated Knitter so we can knit gifts for our coworker who bought us lunch:


I am making fetching gloves obviously... its just such an easy & pretty pattern, I guess you can tell I like it! (How many have I made now???) So pretty.... I <3 Dream in Color!

I also got some yarn using a Christmas giftcard I got for Michaels. I got some Bernat bamboo naturals in a light green:


(Sorry it's hard to see the color!)

and also some more Patons SWS because who doesnt love it!!!! This colorway is "Natural Earth":


WHEW!!! So much yarn lately. Well its a good thing that my fiance HAND BUILT me my very own...


YARN CABINET THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! whoooooooo!!!!

He is so sweet, and the handiest of handymen for sure. Isn't it beautiful??? Better than anything I could ever buy in a store. :-) He bought all the cool little storage boxes for it too. (Of course I added all my yarn soon after he unveiled it lol)

What a good Christmas!!!!!!!! Hope everyone else had a happy one too!
From, Me and the Penguin

Where my STITCHES at????

YAY!!!!!!!!!! My Ravelry Tshirt FINALLY came!!!!!


Woot!!!! I like it a lot. Although I did order a large, and was worried to find it so SNUG... even with my recent weight loss! lol. Oh well, it fits alright as long as I dont gain anything ;-) I do like the design though. It will be perfect under other shirts too!

Otherwise still knitting on my IHS.. I just started the second ball. So that means I got 34" out of one skein. Not too shabby!

Designated Knitter and I are in cahoots to knit our coworker a scarf & gloves, since she graciously bought us lunch today as an xmas present! Our idea involves DREAM IN COLOR yarn... so I am SUPER pumped about that. Ever since I knit my Rocketry (Ravelry link here) I have been dying to use it again!!!!!

Hope everyone has a fun weekend, I have several family Christmas parties... several with my future in-laws and fam (but they are all super awesome and I am excited)!!!!

Hiking Scarf #2

This last weekend I started an Irish Hiking Scarf for myself! I have been meaning to make another one, since I enjoyed making the first one for my dad so much...

At a knitting party the other weekend, I got FREE YARN (woot), which was Plymouth Encore Bulky. Well I cast on with it, and after some pattern adjusting I came up with this:


I modified the pattern to only use 2 cables and also have less rows between the cable rows. Looks pretty decent, eh?

If I can any leftover, Designated Knitter has convinced me to make a matching Irish Hiking Headband. I hope there will be enough! :-)

In other news (I almost typed "knews" there... LOL must have knitting on the brain) I completed an adorable "toasty topper" (from knitty.com) for my nephew for xmas:


Thanks to my teddy bear for modeling! haha. I hope the recipient actually wears it (instead of ripping it off like he does with most hats!)

Also I finished a secret xmas project which will be disclosed after xmas. If you want to see it, you may check on my ravelry.com (where it is safe LOL)

OK good luck with the last days before xmas everyone!

P.S. In other news I have been back on weight watchers for 3 weeks and have lost 6.2 pounds!!!!! Wedding dress, here I come! lol

December

Winter Knitty has some totally cute things!!!! I am planning on making a few things from it already! I have a skein of Patons SWS that I might turn into Quant.

Oh and I had a really delicious/beautiful pear the other day, so I thought I'd share:



Pretty eh??? It's a "Bartlett" pear, and they are amazing.

Umm well I am knitting a xmas project I can't share on here... I have one xmas present knitted AND wrapped already, woot!!!! Way to be on top. Luckily I didn't try and give myself any ambitious projects to try and get done. I've spent a lot of time making sure Cynthia doesn't get herself in over her head too. PUT DOWN THE LACEWEIGHT!!!!! Lol.

Also tonight finally wrapped majority of the xmas projects I have bought... yay! Now if I can only send out my xmas cards....



:) TGIF!