Famous Chicks ~

Our girls and chickens were on the radio today - very exciting and very fun!

A great story about raising chickens and saving money for college, and how great these daughters are together!

They are great!

Basket for yarn ~

Did I mention that I also scored on a basket made in Uruguay - woven and beautiful! My sister and I each bought one.


Since it was the last day of Sew Expo, the basket sales were at a big discount as they didn't want to have to package them up to take them home.

Perfect place for my yarn, my spindle, and fiber too!


Lucky me!

Six for Troops ~

I'm sending six helmet liners to the Helmet Liner Project today. Hurrah to Sue that knit two, and to Marion, Debi, Lisa and I that each knit one ~ what a great Yarn Yoga knitting group....

Bravo to us for our charity knitting, and Bravo to the brave troops that will be wearing them.

Interweave is here ~

I'm excited to review the new magazine from Interweave Knits!




I hope to have time this weekend to fill up my cup of coffee and sit outside in this spring weather and read all about new patterns, new yarn and get some new inspiration!!! Hurrah!

Handspun sale ~

We were at the Sew Expo this weekend and I didn't buy any fabric. First time, ever... in the 20 years we've been going.

We took some classes, and even got lucky as "stand by" for a beginning crochet class that was sort of fun to play around with....

There were only a few booths in the entire fairgrounds that had yarn or fiber.. I do wish they would expand with more yarn. Sew Expo is the place I bought my Philosopher's Wool sweater kit several years ago, and learned to "Fair Isle Knit" with two hands from a class with Ann. I did score this handspun yarn for just $5 a skein...not bad for soft wool barber pole...

Help for Sock Summit ~

I mentioned that I've been looking at lots of patterns. On my vacation I found a pattern set that I've heard about through many sources, the first time through one of my favorite podcasts The Knitmore Girls where Gigi knits through almost the entire Little Box of Socks. Since the Box is individual patterns that are "lose" meaning not bound in a book, I couldn't find it at a library to review, or open at a bookstore... it was always sealed....



Imagine my delight when the yarn shop on our vacation had an open copy to review.... and review it, I did.....



and then I bought it.... so now I have lots of pattern help for my remaining Sock Summit yarn... P.S. Not all the yarn pictured is from the Sock Summit....just the majority!

Harry Potter colors ~

The next Harry Potter movie comes out this November (I think) so I am going to knit a few Harry Potter Gryffindor scarves for my kids and myself...

As we always wish we had them during the movie premiere... and we promise that we'll have them by the next movie....

So I get this great yarn on my vacation, so I can start knitting a beautiful scarf to be ready by this fall... as I'm not a fast scarf knitter, as I find them a bit...boring.... except that now Hannah tells me these are the wrong colors.....

What??? They are the same colors as her socks I knit!!!!??? (aren't they?)