Too Much Yarn

Back from Wisconsin Sheep & Wool

I had a blast!  Meeting new friends, Christy and Lin and many sheep!  I also took a class from Cat Bordhi!  Learned a few tricks and it was so worth the time!  I'm in the process of scrapbooking the event so I can show more photos in one layout so you'll have to bear with me before I show your any photos.  Well, I have to show you this photo - it was taken with Cat as she held my Bartholomew's Tantalizing Sock from her book.  This was the photo that made me buy the book and I made it in the same colorway as the sample in the book.

She signed my book and I'm so glad I had the guts to ask for a photo with her.  Cos if I didn't, I would be regretting it right now.  But most impressively, as I was knitting the toe of a sock I'm designing, she is trying to tell me that the toe of the sock is big enough.  She took the sock and attempted to fit over my foot and she touched my toe!  Lin suggested that I don't wash my toe for a while... you think it's worth anything if I cut it and put it on eBay?

Ok... how about one more photo.  Here are the Ravelry friends I met: (standing next to me is Christy's mom, Lin, Christy, and in front, is Jen who works at Knitch, a yarn store in Delafield).

OK - one more photo...  This was the loot from the festival. Not pictured are 2 sock bags, and a sheep accessory bag from Lin.  Will show you those another time.  Included in this stash are yarn for a wrap/vest, a shawl, a scarf, and many, many projects (which I may not get to...)  Briar Rose was my favorite booth!

OK - one more... what's a sheep festival without sheep?  Here's some naked ones:

I would say 50% of the attendees are spinners - lots of spinning wheels and spindles.  I promise myself I'm not going to get into it.  I heard several times that Lin may get into spinning... I'm going to let her jump into this first.

A couple of sock club kits came in the mail in the last few weeks.  The Loopy Ewe's shipment included a skein of Wollmeise which I have since traded for another color (my favorite color: BLUE!).

Woolgirl's shipment was a total surprise as I'd forgotten about it.  Love the bright ladybug colors:

As I mentioned earlier, I started scrapbooking and started a digital album for my knitting endevours... I finished these 2 pages today and will start on my Wisconsin trip next.  These were from August when I met Chrissy Gardiner and more Ravelry friends...

Next time, I will show you sock progress!

I'm in Ravelry!!

A month ago, I had no clue what Ravelry is.  This morning, I received my invitation!  I uploaded some of photos to Flickr and started posting my projects.  This is such a brilliant idea!  I was looking at the socks and bags I've made and it's so fun to see what they look like in other yarns and colors!

It's getting cold and I decided to make my son a hat that he's been asking me to make.  It took me about 2 hours to make this using Malabrigo Bulky.  My son has a big head (his head circumference was off the chart when he was a baby!) so I made the adult 22" - it stretched, but I hope it's warm enough for him.  I have enough yarn left to make a pom-pom... let's see if his friends give him a hard time with the hat.  He's in 9th grade now - I think 9th graders like to wear fashionable/unique stuff...

I have completed 2 repeats of my monkey socks with the Jitterbug Sahara yarn.  I've become addicted to Jitterbug - they're so nice to knit with.  I ordered 3 more skeins from The Loopy Ewe today.  This would be my 4th order towards being a Loopie Groupie!!  I also want to start on some socks from Cat Bordhi and she used a lot of yarn from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.  I see that this yarn is available in the yarn shop, Purlescense, in Sunnyvale, CA - where I'll be for Christmas.  I thought perhaps I can wait until then to see what the fiber feels like before adding them to my stash.  Well, I'm off to upload more photos to my profile in Ravelry.. And if you're looking for me, I'm mapleweave!