{Find a Deal Friday}

I just found the most GORGEOUS Etsy Store called Febystan: Land of handmade.

She makes the most intricate and beautiful crochet jewelry. My personal favorite are these little Moon earrings done in a light grey metalic thread and fun coloured beads. So so pretty and the price is reasonable! Love it!

$20

And I've also found PurePurl.com which is a very smart looking website with very pretty yarns. They're more of a normal online store with normal online store prices, but they're having a 10% off all yarns in January. You should go check it out!



oh and psst. I finished the last sleeve of my sweater and I'm gonna sew it in tonight. But don't tell anyone. :P

{What's in my Queue?}

Progress is slow on my sweater because my Internship is now taking up most of my day. The same sleeve is still on the needles, just with about oh... 10 rows more. hehe Don't worry, I have the weekend off and it'll get D. O. N. E. So as you may have guessed, I'm already looking ahead to what's next:

First up, after finishing my sweater, is some Red Dwarf Socks by Cristi H. Brockway:

I'm not sure what yarn in my stash is going to work for these socks, but I figure I should be able to make them in worsted weight on the #4 needles! They'll be my first non-basic socks and I'm kinda excited. :)

After those are done, I'm going to knit Give A Hoot mittens to match my own hat!

These will be in the same yarn and stuff since I have a ball and a bit left. Very excited because these will be my very first mittens. They can't be that different from socks, right?

After those, I'm sorta obsessing on these: Reading Mitts by Janelle Masters on Danving Ewe Yarns:

I don't know what it is, but my hands get FREEZING at the computer. Specifically the one that operates my mouse. I have no idea why! I love the little detailed edging and that it extends a little further up my fingers, but again I'm going to have to figure out which yarn in my stash will work.

This one isn't quite in my Queue, but my friend Jenny showed it as being in her queue over on her blog and I'm kinda sorta obsessed now. It's called Haruni... look at that gorgeous lace work!

*drool*

It might be in my queue soon.

And between all of those I'll be working on my Modern Log Cabin blanket. Not much progress there, but I have the first three squares done in the main colours. I'm excited about it. :)

{An Own Hat Complete}

I was finished this hat a week or two ago - before Christmas I think - and I hadn't taken a picture yet! It was a super quick knit and it's oh so soft to wear.

Owl Hat

I have enough left of the Bernat Alpaca blend yarn to make some gloves too I think! I'll be casting those on after my next pair of socks. I just need to figure out which of my stash yarns I'm going to use for the socks and whether I'm going to try a specific pattern or just do a ribbed pair.

doesn't it look sorta sweaterish?

Oh, and the sweater is almost done! I have one sleeve totally knit and sewn in to the shoulder slot! (THANKS Hope!!) I am so darn proud of myself! The last sleeve is on the needles now and after that it's just sewing and the neck band left. I have the end in sight! If I was still on vacation I would have said that it'd be done in a couple of days, but since I'm starting my internship tomorrow I'm going to guestimate beginning of next week. My first sweater!

{Summary of Changes}

I finally settled on a background, then my header looked too clunky or something. I didn't think it said much about *me*, so instead I got to work with Picasa, Gimp and Photobucket and put together my new header.

I also changed my profile picture to one of Mr. Pie and I. So don't worry! That's still me! hehe

What do you guys think? I'm looking for honest criticism! I can take it, I promise!

Oh - and I need to ask your opinion. How do you guys feel about blogs that have frequently changing backgrounds? Sometimes it kinda throws me off and it makes the blog feel less... professional or something to me. But I guess my goal with this blog isn't to be professional looking, it's supposed to represent my style, right? I'm torn. I liked the clean look of before, but these backgrounds are just so fun! Please chime in and leave a comment if the fancy strikes you!

{Christmas Morning Photos}

How Cute is this?? This is my dad and my niece Alora both wearing their matching sweaters on Christmas morning. Both fit perfect and I couldn't be more pleased with myself.

{Find a Deal Friday}

Yay It's back! You didn't think it was gone for good, did you?

Kyarns.com has a nice selection of discontinued yarns and colours available, with shipping under $5 in the US. The one pictured above is Cascade 220 (the one Jenny was thinking of in the comments of the last post I think), 220 yards for $5, 100% wool. They also have a whole lot of the different Noro yarns in discontinued colours for what looks like a good deal too.


Smiley's Yarns is a favourite of every bargain hunting yarnie, I think. This Filatura Lanarota brand of yarn is new to me. 100% wool, worsted weight, about 100 yards of it for a buck and a half. Some pretty colours too! I love that heathered gray in the back. From the same brand, they have about 100 yards of 100% Alpaca for $2.99. I'm seriously considering this one!

The Fox Hop is having a sale until January 5th, 20% off of batts of yarn and 25% off of hand spun yarn! She's got some super pretty stuff!

Fairy Designs has a bunch of recycled Angora and lambswool for very reasonable prices, and a bunch of it which would be nice for a larger project!

318 Yards in Worsted weight, $6.30

I hope everyone will have a great last weekend of vacation time! :)

{What's On The Needles?}

Hello 2010! I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year's Eve last night. January 1st, 2010 is here and I have to say I'm not stoked about it because it means that I start my internship on Monday -only three days away! It's not that I'm not looking forward to having a reason to get dressed again, but I'm just having so much fun knitting 10 hours a day, ya know?

Here's what I have going on at the moment:


The front of my Climbing Vines Pullover is coming along nicely. The only part that's bugging me is that I can't seem to figure out how to keep that extra little hole from popping up under the left side of the leaves. Do you see it? It's in all of them except the bottom one. It's something that's in the pattern I guess but the final product picture I've seen doesn't look like there's a hole there! ugh! Maybe I'll just put a stitch with some thread in later, or maybe I'll just leave them because Who would really know that it's not in the pattern, right?

Oh, and along that note... has anyone figured out what I did wrong with the cast off at the neck part in the back? I'm going to have to do that again here in not too long and I'm kinda nervous. lol If you're inclined to take a look and help, I strategically buried it in the middle of my last post. hehe

And then yesterday I cast on this too:


It's the beginning of a Modern Log Cabin Blanket. What do you think of the colour scheme? It's a bright white, the dark taupe and a dark smokey purple colour. I decided to start one of these after I opened my gift from my Sister in Law - a TON of this Bernat yarn!! Like... I do mean a TON. I got 5 of these super value sized balls, plus this monster right here:


Holy MACREL that's a lot of yarn!!! I'm looking forward to finding a blanket for that one too! Maybe the Tree of Life Afghan (Rav link) or something like that? I think I should stick to one blanket at a time though. This modern afghan will be a good project to take in the car with me and knit in front of the tv now that I've started some more complicated need-to-pay-attention kind of projects.

I'm also itching to cast on either mittens or socks for myself now that I have my amazing new needles that I can use for either the Magic Loop or two circle needles to do the small rounds with. Socks would be pretty straight forward and maybe the same yarn that I did my traveling woman shawl in, but it's only sport weight and I don't have needles any smaller than 4's, so they wouldn't be terribly warm I wouldn't think. I should probably swatch that. I'm still working out the details.