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What happens when you have a lot of half skeins and a lot of ribbon yarns in a certain color???

You mix it and match it and knit til you cant knit anymore.











And you end up with:

It's a work in progress...and I'm bored with it already, but it really is going to be a pretty shawl.

Diane Lockharts sweater

I saw this sweater on The Good Wife and I must have it.  How does one find out where TV shows get their clothing?

blog repost

Years ago I had an office in a quaint little area and one of my business neighbors was Mercedes.  She owned an amazing yarn store.  I was heartbroken when it closed.  In fact, most of my yarn I own I got from her closing sale.

Recently our paths crossed and now I follow her on twitter and her amazing blog.  She posted this link from a blogger friend of hers and it sums up perfectly the importance of knitting. 

Ravelry dot com

I've been a member of Ravelry for about a year and just recently started utilizing it.  WOW!  It took me a while to get the hang of it but once I began to enter my stash in, I saw that it would link to projects hundreds of others made using that exact same yarn and the pattern if they added that.

So now I am so excited about emptying my stash out!  I'm just up to 15 of my yarns added (about 1/3 of my total) and put them in my "que" folder.  This is so organized I should get my stash gone in about 2 years.  I'm just so excited!

Finished the booties!

I conquered my fear of 3D projects!  I used the Shamrock MaryJane pattern and learned a new stitch, the Half double Chain Decrease, and finished it before the deadline!! 

I'm so proud of myself.  The first one on the right I made while Andrew had his wisdom teeth removed.  I was afraid to make the one on the left because it HAD to match.  No improvising or missing a stitch.  It had to be the exact same.  Although it is not...the first one is more pointed and the second one is more rounded, I don't think it will matter when on a baby foot.

Baby Cap and Booties

A weird thing happened last month.  Someone on Facebook asked me to make a baby cap and booties for her niece who is arriving in June.  Nothing strange about that, but it's someone I'm not too sure how I know.  I don't know her in the real world.  She also follows me on Twitter and comments on a few of the knitting projects I'd like to make.  She offered to pay me for the yarn I purchased, but as I have yarn everywhere in my house I told her I probably had something around here and she could pay me for the cost of the yarn.  I found 4 skeins of sinfonia yarn in lilac and one in cream so I used that.  Out of one skein I made 2 caps and a pair of booties and the little flowers

So I chose this pattern from Garnstudio.com for the cap and this one for solid lilac booties with some cream picot crochet trim. Sorry I don't have a cute baby to use as a model.  You will just have to make do with my hand :)