Title stumped....

Yup, couldn't think of something snazzy, eye catching...etc...

Anyhow, it was a lovely sunny Monday morning...

So I thought I'd show you the room we mostly live in.

Here's the other end....the kitchen is off to the right...um..er...need to tidy up before that picture ;)

I love our couch, both of us can relax at each end with plenty of room.  I think in this room only a few items were ours. As much as I love the couches, I would never have gotten cream colored ones.

Someone wants to go outside....


and someone doesn't want you to see his face.


So, it was sock laundry day....

Love my new tub....fits almost all my handknits....
All but these two pairs....they are "bad" socks LOL!  They still bleed dye so they get their own bath...

So happy to have a laundry sink....that'll be in lots of use later...when I start cleaning my fleeces...

Drying out on the patio....

Wished I had gotten a picture of the dog running off with a sock...He was mad I put the fire pit wood away ....

Great Weekend!

So this past weekend I came down off the mountain to hang out in Phoenix.  You see, the elevation of Prescott Valley is about 5,026ft and the elevation of Phoenix is 1,124ft.  It's not too curvy of a drive, it's beautiful and one day when I'm not driving down it, I'll take some pictures.  People literally speed down there too! I was going the speed limit of 65-75 and yes, they were going faster....whew!

Anyhow, here's a park near the convention center.

Look, wee Palm trees!

Thought this arch/walkway was different.


I'd love a pond like that in my backyard.


More interesting plants.  I'm sure I'll learn what they are eventually.


Got to go to Ikea and get my new chair/foot stool cushions...oh..eep...a view of my knitting/surfing/chilling corner of my craft/hobby room.

Guess I need to tidy up a bit ;)

What I really went down to do is meet up with these ladies at the TNNA trade show

(Carrie) Irishgirlieknits, me, and Stacey.  We all met via Knitty Coffeeshop years ago and have been following each others blogs, etc. since then.  Carrie was there to promote her Irishgirlieknits Designs and Stacey was working her company's booth.

I was so happy to finally meet these ladies IRL.  Got to have a few conversations with Stacey, she's just as I expected, fun and interesting to talk to :)  Carrie and I were roomies and I had the fun of being her own personal chauffeur.  You see due to her bad knee, walking a lot wasn't recommended.  We learned a lot about the one way streets in Phx ;)

I couldn't go "inside" the trade show as I wasn't a member/LYS owner/designer/etc. but just being able to spend the time relaxing, knitting and shopping was a nice break.  There was some good food, yarny purchases and quite a few sightings of other designers and other knitting celebs.

I enjoyed the entire weekend getting to know Carrie, chatting and learning a lot about the other side of designing.  You know all the hard work to not only design the patterns, but the work needed to get your patterns out there to the public. 

I hope we get to meet up again soon! Good luck with your surgery Carrie!

Another tale of a colorway!

I can finally post these 2 projects now.
Yarn: Malabrigo Rasta
Colorway: Zarzmora


Lots of purple in here.


Size 17 circulars and some knitting and it later became this neckwarmer. Used every bit of those 90 yds :)  Just like my last Rasta neckwarmer I got the buttons from my LYS.  She has great buttons. (amongst other things ;)

Next up
Yarn: Malabrigo Rasta
Colorway: Zarzmora


Not as much purple, and some greenish/blackish colors too.

It grew up to become...

LTYC Super Bulky Cowl
Size 15 circulars and literally had to go down to like size 13's to bind off the last 4 sts or so.  Whew, that was close.

More close ups of the 2nd Zarzamora.


Seeing them both together like this...


and this...

If you've ever knit with Malabrigo Rasta, it's sooooo soft and yummy.  Often times the same colorways are somewhat different as it is with hand-dyed yarns.  I have 1 skein of another colorway and not sure what I want to knit.  I know it'll be a neckwarmer of some sort as I wear this one almost every day...yes...here in the mountains of AZ...it is needed!

They are now in the hands of their new owners :)

Have an exciting weekend coming up.  Can't wait to post about it! It's been a long time coming!

Well....Happy New Year!!

Sorry, long time, no post!

I can finally show you my sekrit knitting!

What started out as this....


Bee Mice Elf Mixed BFL in Beloved Bard(155 yds) and Emerald (177 yds)
Both spun up to be about sport/light worsted.

They turned into this hat


Fake Isle Hat by Amy King
US 8 needles
What I thought was a good match, was a bit too close.  There isn't a lot of contrast between the variegated (Beloved Bard) and solid (Emerald).  But I continued knitting on and I am happy with the results.  After reading how the hat usually turns out pointy, I followed some advice to delete a few rows and I think it helped a lot.  I didn't block it too harshly as it wasn't for me.


A view from the top.


Then with the leftovers I knit these Camp Out Mitts

I used a size 7 for the garter section and 8 needle  for the rest, and the following mods:
Cast on 14 and knit 34 garter ridges.  Cast on 11 stitches for the thumb and picked up 33 stitches and knit until I ran out of the Beloved Bard.  Then I finished the mitts with the Emerald.   I did knit a couple of decrease rounds as I was worried they were a bit big.  I hear tell they fit fine!

Then off they went to my Snobby Spinner swap pal. 

My first FO's for 2012!