Wind it up baby

So my new ball winder came in the mail with loads of other stuff from Knitpicks yesterday, yay!! Even though I had thousands of other things to do I ended up winding up many balls of yarn to test out my new ball winder. The test went well and I’m in love!! [...]

So the universe has been telling me that I shouldn’t knit up my lovely cabled toque, but I should be casting on the second leg warmer for my sis-in-law who happens to arrive sometime next week from Europe. I have casted on that hat over 4x’s only to get to the part when I [...]

Frogging Frusteration

I love my family I do but due to them pestering me I have had to frog the hat I started making on Friday 3x’s!! The universe don’t want me to have a wonderful knitted cabled toque to keep my little head warm. I’m thinking of going to the LYS close to my [...]

Secret Pal 10 Questionaire Answers that proves I should live in a bubble

1. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with? What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
Let’s start with the DO NOT like’s , most of them are due to allergies *sniff* wool (any type and any percentage, I’ve tried them all and I’m still allergic!), angora, cashmere, alpaca, fun fur and most novelty yarns (I’m [...]

Here’s my project spectrum skinny scarf. I used the yarn I got from my LJ secret pal and crocheted up this pretty scarf. It’s the perfect colours for project spectrum’s colours, which is blue, white and grey. This yarn is a mixture of blues, greens. little bit of white and silvery-blue grey. [...]

Socks flying of my needles

I just typed up a nice long post only to lose it,  Argg I hate blogger sometimes there really needs to be an auto-save *sigh*  So since it’s late I don’t have to retype everything that I had wanted to post about so here the short version.  I started knitting socks!  Yay me, I’m at the gusset of the class sock in Sensational Knitted Socks book by Charlene Schurch  Soon I will be able to knit up the yummyZen Garden sock yarn I just got from Pickup Sticks.  
Other WIPs/FO news, I started and finished a skinny scarf in the beautiful bamboo yarn that I talked about in my previous post.  It’s perfect for project spectrum and will be posting pics soon as [...]

Today’s post is brought to you by wonderful Smacked Knitless and a really big sugar high, whheee!!

I got my 2nd LJ secret pal (third if you count the christmas present package, but since Smacked Knitless doesn’t think that this package was good enough, btw I think it was frackin’ fantastic!) Soooo, I got this wonderful pet worthy Plymouth Yarn Royal Bamboo (100% bamboo) in colourway #20, which is a wonderful [...]