Find a Deal Friday!

And just in time for your Black Friday preparations right? Has everyone made their lists and checked them twice?

No? Well maybe I can help with a little FADF lovin'! I am so excited that Blue Mountain Handcrafts has agreed to be featured! Beth makes such beautiful yarns, stitch markers, bags, and needle cases.

Plus! A Student Knitter Exclusive!! Enter the code "Sarah's Blog"
in the message box at checkout during the sale dates of
November 27th,28th, & 29th,
and get free shipping on all orders over $50!!

Here are just a few of my favorites things in her shops:

NASTURTIUMS washable wool handspun and Navajo plyed
51 Yards Bulky, $9.00

Handspun Superwash Merino Yarn
133 yards Worsted, $19.00

MULLED WINE Handspun BFL Yarn
250 Yards Fingering, $35.00

Beautiful needle rolls:

$22.00

And project bags:

$29.00

Stitch markers recycled from broken vintage jewelry:

Set of 7, $6.00

AND THEN... the fun's not over! Beth also keeps an absolutely gorgeous vintage jewelry store on Etsy too called Beth1818 Vintage Costume and Fine Jewelry. She has some amazing pieces right now, and I'm not usually a big jewelry kinda gal, but check these out:

locket, $32.00

Brooch, $12.00

Bracelet, $39.00

She has given us who follow her blog a heads up! On Blackfriday she'll be
having a 25% off sale at her Jewelry store AND at her knitting store she is
having a giveaway for your choice of one of those amazing project bags!
Every purchase over $25 gets your name in for the drawing.

Only a week until I can start decorating my house my Christmas and I'm really excited! Enjoy your shopping everyone!

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I Have the Coolest Yarn Friends EVER

Jenny, from Jenny's Blog on Knitting, You are the coolest in the whole world!! Look at this awesome care package I got from her!

Here's what it has:
Biggest one: Kunstgarn (25% wool/75% superwash wool)
Blue/green chunky: Hjertegarn Damans (50% acrylic, 50% superwash)
Black: Drops Merino (100% superwash wool)
Burgundy & Pink Chunky: Drops Eskimo (100% wool)
Self-Striping in Blue/green/red/yellow: Hjertegarn (100% wool?)
Tiny yellow/pink/orange: Milk Fiber yarn from Viking

I can not WAIT to have time to touch and play and knit these!! I think blue/green chunky might go in to Mr. Pie's other heel! hehehe!

Oh, and did I mention the chocolate?? This stuff is to DIE for! It'll be consumed in a bubble bath tonight with a glass of wine. ;)

Thank you so much, Jenny!!

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My next Cast On

I decided to go ahead and cast on the last hat that I'll need to knit for Christmas gifts. I decided on this one here:

The Meret (Ravelry Link)

Here's a top down view:

It's an extremely popular free design on Ravelry with over 1800 projects listed! The yarn I chose for it was this recycled yarn that decided it didn't want to be a sweater. It's an angora blend, so it'll be a little bit more... fluffy. hehe I hope it works out! As usual, I'll keep you guys posted! :)

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Christmas Knitting Continues

Hey guys! How is everyone's Christmas knitting coming along? I feel like I've been at it forever now. It's been months that I've been getting all this stuff together! lol

I'm almost done though. I have a few other projects I can cross off my list, including socks for Mr. Pie. He's been asking for socks for ages and ages, since I first started learning to knit. I tried with double pointed needles and hated HATED doing that, so I gave up. Now, with my new discovery of Silver's Sock Class, which is a step-by-step free guide to knitting socks from the toe up and on two circle needles, I'm actually enjoying knitting socks! I've got my first one done so far:


I love how I'm able to custom size them to his feet when they're toe up like this! I'm making these primarily from left over Knit Picks Wool of the Andes (the orange toes) and the white chunky sweater that I unraveled last week. They are coming out so thick and comfy, but they're hard on the hands to knit because I'm doing these on #7 needles. lol It's a very dense fabric!

Also, I took a short break to knit another one of these cute little bunnies. All the little girls in my family (and I have 4. lol) are getting a little bunny in their stocking:


These little bunnies are the only toys I've ever made because they're knit flat and then sewn. Again with the DPN phobia. hehe Maybe I'll branch out a little more now!

I have one more hat to knit, and then maybe another pair of socks like this for another family member. I have a whole bunch of the Simply Soft Caron still in both brown and green so I think I might want to try some stranded colour work! Wish me luck!

School is almost done! Can you believe it? I have one week of class, then the week of thanksgiving I have off. I'll have two weeks once I go back and after that it's finals! How crazy is that? I just have three more weeks to hang in there! I have a feeling I'll be spending much of my break knitting. hehe ;)

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Drum Roll Please....

And The Winner Is....


LISA from Molta Di Moda Designs!!

Thank you so much to everyone who entered! I'm feeling the love from all my new followers! I look forward to clicking through on many of your names and seeing who has a blog and who is on Ravelry that I can stalk and look at projects. hehe

Congratulations Lisa! Email me your address and I'll get all that out to you asap!

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I have another Ravelry friend!

I want to tell you about the sweetest lady I met today! She's on a quick overnight visit to the little tiny town I live in and came for a cup of tea. I love meeting new people, but I especially love meeting new yarnie types. They are all the nicest sweetest people and my new friend is no exception!

She came bearing gifts!

Nuna by Mirasol

This has got to be some of the nicest yarn I have ever owned. It's 40% Merino wool, 40% silk and 20% bamboo and it is SO. SOFT. I have no idea what I'm going to knit with it, but I'll tell ya something: It's gonna be something for Me. hehe!

Thank you Knitabit!! I feel so spoiled and I can't tell you thank you enough! :D

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Projects Started and Projects Updated

Before I talk about anything I'd like to remind one and all, before Monday:

Do Not Forget to enter my Yarn Giveaway to
celebrate my 100th post!

I'll draw probably about 5:00pm EST I think, and I'll count all entries up until I've run the numbers through random.com.

So, on to other cool business! I've been a busy bee so far this weekend! On top of a TON of homework that needs to get done, I've been taking time out to both finish up a few projects around the house, and then to start a few new ones.

Remember when I posted about my room change around? You've seen pictures of how the dining room came out, but here's the other end of the house where the credenza came from and the chest got moved to.


The picture was there originally over top of the credenza; we just swapped out for the chest in the same spot. The peg rack we made and hung last weekend out of just a 1x4 and some wooden pegs painted green. Just 10 minutes ago I finished throwing together that little no-sew slip cover for the piece of foam on top of the chest. Now I have a cute spot for people to take their shoes off and hang up their coats! All in all this project cost me maybe $20 in fabric (entry and dining room together) for a look that has really made me feel like the house has been jazzed up!

Does this little bird guy look familiar? He was a left over scrap from the blinds re-do that is in the picture above. I liked him so much I put him in a frame and hung in the next room!


So that was tonight. hehe LAST night I decided to take my own advice and I started to unravel one of the sweaters that was in my frog pond. This one was 50/50 Wool and acrylic and it's VERY bulky. I've been enjoying knitting in bulky lately so I thought this would energize me. And has it ever!


As you can see I'm not quite done and I already have a whole lot of this stuff. I love it! This morning I decided to try and see if wool/acrylic blends could take colour and the answer is well... yes. But not how you would expect it to.


This came out much greyer than I imagined it would, but that's okay. It's not a large piece and I used a TON of colour (both Kool Aid and food colouring) in blue with a touch of red added so it wasn't so bright. I think I'm going to use it as a contrast for my first project.

Which was to be, I decided with yarn in hand, to start those sock-slippers that I've been promising Mr. Pie. My problem in the past is I've always hated doing the whole double pointed needles thing. This time I went in search of a Two Circulars pattern for socks and found Silver's Toe-Up on Circulars Tutorial.


I can not tell you guys how stoked I am about this. I am SO excited I found a way I actually LIKE to knit socks! I only have two circulars in the right size and length in about two sizes, so I'm really really hoping that Santa is going to bring me a set of Knit Picks Interchangables for Christmas! ;)

I only have a few Christmas items left to finish, but mostly small stuff. Package toppers and some smaller gifts. I love it! I just have Mr. Pie to worry about now!

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