Sprinkles Yarn

Hello Knitters,

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend! It's been very hot and humid here today so I've spent my day indoors doing some baking and knitting. We recently ran out of bread, so I baked some up this afternoon. I ended up making a white and whole wheat blend since I didn't have quite enough white flour, it worked out well and made a nice grainy bread. My Dad is coming home tonight, so I also baked up a blueberry pie using some of the blueberries Mom recently froze. She is sampling it right now; I hope it turned out well!

I have some knitting to share!! First off, as you can see from the picture above, I finally got a picture of the yarn I dyed from my swap partner. I'm really happy with how it turned out!! The green in it showed up more like yellow in the photo, but in real life it's more of a light lime green. I've already cast on for the Baby Bear :-) If I can keep at it, I should have some progress pictures by Monday for you all.

This is the other project I've been working on:


They are a pair of fingerless gloves I designed over the last few days. The yarn is a luscious merino/cashmere blend that I got when we were in Traverse City for my sister's dress fitting a few weeks ago. When I seen it, I just knew it had to be made into either a cowl or fingerless gloves. I opted for fingerless gloves since I thought they would be the perfect transition piece to add to my wardrobe to help me ease into fall. I hope to have the pattern available on Ravelry in the next week or two.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. Have a great weekend everyone and remember to squeeze in some knitting time!!

Happy Knitting!!

My First Package Arrived!!

Hello Knitters,

Guess what I got in the mail yesterday???? A wonderful package from my Itty Bitty Teddy Bear Picnic Swap partner!! I took close-up pictures of everything, but for some reason they only upload sideways, so I will try to upload again tomorrow and see if it works. However, I was too excited about my package to wait! I wanted to share it with you all right away :-)

First, there was a lovely note from my dear swap partner, who is keeping herself a secret :-) For my kit, she included some beautiful Workhorse Maritime Wool from Cricket Cove in Creamy so I can dye it myself!! (I've been going over colour combinations in my head all day, I can hardly wait to dye it) And two boxes of food colour - one Primary and one Neon, as well as some black embroidery floss - all for making the Sock Yarn Teddy Bear from Itty Bitty Toys. (This is something I've been wanting to make for a long time, so I'm glad I get the chance to!)

For the goodies she included: a package of adorable Eco Friendly pencils, 5 pretty flower and bead stitch markers, a cute little polka dotted bag I can use for storing my project in and the most beautiful crochet flower pin cushion she made just for me for my sewing!!

I'm so blessed to have such an amazing swap partner!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! I LOVE everything and can't wait to get started on my little bear!!

Just to let you all know, I didn't get back to my sister's house yet, I'm still here at home. This morning my Mom was very sick and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. She is doing better now and is back home, but we still don't know what really happened to her. We're waiting for her test results to come back and she has to go in for some more testing probably this week. Hopefully we will find out soon what's going on. In the meantime, we are praying for her and I'm doing my best to be all the help I can to her. I feel so very blessed to have such a wonderful aunt who came and took me to the hospital, stayed with us there and drove us back home again!! The ambulance attendants, the hospital staff and doctor were also wonderfully caring!! I thank the Lord for everyone who helped us out today!! Thank you all!!

Well, I'm going to head to bed soon, it's been a long day. I hope you all are doing well, and thank you again swap partner for making me such a fun package!!

Happy Knitting!!

Sick

Hello Knitters,

Sorry I haven't been updating you all like I said I would, but I ended up getting sick half-way through the week and just haven't felt up to doing much at all. Because of this, I didn't get any knitting done....I know I'm sick when I don't even want to knit! I've been doing a lot of sleeping, so hopefully once this is all passed, I'll be well rested and ready to get back to things. I'm sorry this is so short, I just wanted to explain what's been going on.

I hope you are all having a fantastic weekend, and I should be back well and healthy at the beginning of the week!

Take care and happy knitting!!

Beach Vacation

Hello Knitters,

I hope all you Canadians are enjoying this long weekend :-) I'm back from our Traverse City trip. We got back Saturday evening in time for Mom and I to go to Community Night. There really wasn't a lot of people out for it, but it was still nice to go. On Sunday we went to the city for the Finnish church service that was going on and then we did a little shopping afterwards. We ran into my cousin and her husband at Sears as well as another cousin and his girlfriend, which was really nice since I haven't seen either of them in a while. Today I haven't done much other than bake a peach pie and look through recipes. I'm trying to decide on which ones to use for the wedding cupcakes for my sister's wedding.

I'm home this week for a "vacation." It's nice to be here by the water. After being in the city for a while, I feel like I'm at a real cottage. I'd like to do some relaxing at the beach and maybe even go for a swim or two. I'm not a huge fan of swimming in the lake, but the water has been really warm, so I think I'll have to get in at least once. I don't know how often I will get to blog since the Internet is so slow here, but I'll try to keep you all updated as much as I can. That being said, who knows if I'll do anything interesting enough that's worth posting! lol

I did get to work on my clapotis some more and am now on Section 3. I really like working with the yarn, so it's a fun knit. I can't wait to start dropping the stitches!

Well, I guess that's all for today's post. Tomorrow Mom and I have to run into the city, so I should get more knitting done and have something worth posting next time! Have a great rest of the long weekend!!

Happy Knitting!!

Trip Report

Hello Knitters,

Thank you everyone, for all your wonderful travel knitting suggestions! I can't wait to try some of them out :-) The project I chose for my travel knitting is the Clapotis. I started out knitting the Spring Beret and I got that finished just before we got to the yarn store, which worked out perfectly. I picked out some lovely Manos del Uruguay Silk Blend in a pretty pinky salmon colour, and I bought some needles and stitch markers and was all set. I cast on in the car while we continued on. It's a little bit tricky for working on while others are talking to me but I'm getting the hang of it. I find that the more I do the repeat sections the more I start to memorize them. Here's a progress shot I took:

I also got a couple of balls of yarn at Michaels, but I'll tell you about those later. This is just a short post since it's getting late and we have the dress fitting in the morning. By the way, I guess I should have started with this, but I did end up coming on the trip (which is now quite obvious) and my Dad is coming home to stay with the animals. We will be heading back home tomorrow afternoon, so I probably won't be blogging again until Monday. So have a wonderful rest of the weekend everyone!!

Happy Knitting!!

What Do You Knit in the Restaurant?

Good Morning Knitters,

How is everyone's week going? Mine is going well. I've had a few change in plans since the beginning of the week. First off, I thought I would be going with my sister and Mom to Traverse City to a fitting for my sister's wedding dress this weekend, but last night I found out my Dad isn't coming home this weekend, so I have to go home to look after the animals while they are gone. I was going to take Emerson with us anyways, so that just leaves Cassie and the cat at home, and we could possibly get someone to come and let Cass out and feed her since we'd only be gone one night, but that all seems to still be up in the air, so honestly, I really have no idea what's going to end up happening. I also found out that they ran out of Maple Caramel Popcorn at the Pancake House so I have to go home tonight and make some tomorrow. I wasn't planning on going home again till next week, so this has caught me a little off, but that's ok. I just have to figure out what I need to pack up and take home with me. That being said, I don't know if I will get a chance to post or not while I'm at home. I will try to make every effort to do so.

I don't have any knitting news right this moment, but I did sew a bag yesterday that I thought I'd share. I used a kit my Mom bought for me at Joanns on Monday. It's called the Brooke Bag. It didn't call for interfacing, but I had some on hand, so I added it to the handles and to the fronts of the bag for added sturdiness. I really like the colours and the size is good as well. It's not overly big, but just right for running errands.

Oh, back to the knitting for a second, if I do end up going, do any of you have suggestions on what to take for an easy car/waiting while she gets fitted for the dress/in the restaurant kind of knitting project? It would have to be something easy enough that I don't have to keep track of rows or complicated patterns. I'd love to hear all your ideas! I never really know what to take in situations like this. I do a lot of car knitting, but not much knitting in restaurants or such, so I'm not really sure what are good projects. I'm always curious about what everyone else works on!

Well, Mom just called to say she's on the way so I should get going, I need to start packing things up. Have a wonderful day everyone.

Happy Knitting!!

A Pig with Wigs

Hello Knitters,

Wow, it feels like it's been forever since I last posted! I'm so sorry I didn't post much last week. There wasn't much time to get online while Emmie was staying here, but she went home yesterday (I miss her so much already!) so this week should be back to normal I hope.

I did get a good amount of knitting done while she was here though. And my first project I want to share is this little piggy.

The pattern is from Knitting Mochimochi, which is just full of cute little projects. This is the "Pigs with Wigs" pattern. I'm making it for my Mom because she thought it was so cute. So far I've got two wigs done: the Beautiful Beehive, and the Buxom Bob.

I still have two more wigs to go, and I'll share those when they are done. Now it's time for this piggy to get back to work! Have a great day everyone!

Happy Knitting!!