And yet more yarn...

Can you tell that I am sold on Fleece Artist Merino, since I put in ANOTHER order with Simply Sock Yarns?! This one is the "Mermaid" colorway and I couldn't resist purchasing more of the "Gramercy"--nice feel-reminds me of Zara and Aurora 8, though it is DK weight. And I LOVE the celery color...

Notice that they sent me yet *another* teaser--this time Cherry Tree Hill! I *hate* them...Now I'll want some of that, too...



Stash Enhancement! 

In the beginning, there was a bag...

...circa 1970's. I was a girlscout and like all good girl scouts, we worked on our badges. This was one of our projects: a tie-dyed, sewn bag with embroidery. My first embroidery and the beginnings of my journey into all things needle-worked!

I would go to the local Woolworth's yarn section and purchase thin books on embroidery stitches, needlepoint, crocheting, knitting, tatting...I would buy kits for hooked rugs, crewel,plastic canvas needle point, and eventually counted-cross stitch. By the time I was 18, I was teaching stitchery and selling 'Creative Circle'kits! Never did quite get down 'tatting' and never got past plain knitting and purling until I picked up knitting again 2 1/2 years ago! Of course, I haven't even mentioned my Singer sewing class I took as a pre-teen and all other handwork investigations/passions I've gotten into since: lapidary, cake decorating, quilting, stamping, scrapping, "paper arts", polymer clay...

Girl Scouting-what a great thing!



The beginning of it all... 

STR Club craze...

Same? Similar? Different? What do you think? 

So I'm at my cubicle, showing my co-worker/friend/non-knitter-who-could-care-less, my newly arrived colorway, "Fairgrounds" from the Blue Moon Fiber Arts "Don't Come a Knockin'" club. Is it my imagination or does this look like the same colorway used for all our goodies last month? Could it be?! Now I MUST KNOW...

Off the feet... 

A PAIR DONE!!! Hedera's to add to my sock drawer!

OK, See? I *do* finish some of my socks as a pair occasionally! And here is my current finished pair, hot off the needles and freshly seamed (Kitchener...). I am thrilled to have a new PAIR of socks!

I knit the cuffs shorter than what was shown on Knitty.com; maybe I should have done them longer! My pudgy feet don't wear them nearly as well as the pattern pic, either...Also-how come other people's socked feet look so cute? My legs look fatter and shorter! Please tell me it's the angle because I cannot handle that I am just in denial about my legs having gotten fat like the rest of me!


Off the feet... 


FINISHED! Hedera socks made from "Claudia Handpainted! 

HAD to knit up the "Bird of Paradise" colorway by Lisa Souza! HAD TO... 

Herdera socks are coming along! 

LOOK! I spun this! And I PLIED the stuff on the right! (Blue Moon Fiber Arts, folks! "Jilly" colorway...)