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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Yarns and squares!

A little late for an update like this, but oh well... Got mail today! More squares from my lovely share-a-square attendants! I'm now up to 8...and we're two months on overtime...it's SO good that people actually follow through with this events and let ALL the others down by NOT sending out a single square in ALMOST A YEAR! Please note my sarcasm...

Anywho... My two squares came from MadeWithLove8 and they are beautiful!


I've also been yarnshopping today! Nothing much, but some skeins for some projects. I'm trying not to overdo my hoarding... Got two skeins of Alpa for a headband and also to complete Pickle's cowl.

Then I got some Artic, which is new, pure wool for felting. I've never tried this yarn before so I got some extra just in case. This will be a "santa gnome" wine holder, pattern can be found here. Bård's aunt really liked the one I made for his parents so I'm going to make her one as well. I'm hoping to get it finished pretty quickly cause Bård is going to visit his parents in march, and it would be great if he could deliver it for me.

There haven't been much progress on my projects today though... I've felt kinda tired and unmotivated so I haven't done much on my skirt, but it's looking pretty good so far! The colors go well together and look pretty in general. Any kind of flash is killing it though, so I'll have to get some good pictures in natural light when it's finished to really show it off! It's a hassle to knit with 5 different colors at once cause the yarn keeps on tangeling, but it's so fun to see it grow and to see the colors unfold.

But except for some rows on the skirt, I've been working on my eternity scrap blanket all evening. I got a bunch of scraps flowing around so I figured I'd clear some out of the way.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Packages from my American friends!

Today was a good day! Mostly because I got two packages in the mail today from two of my American friends!

Last week, I bought 10 skeins of some mohair, fluffy, blue yarn from Brooke. It's vintage and she sold it to me really cheap. Been thinking about making myself a sweater inspired by the Skappel sweater, but the yarn for it is so dang expencive. But with this blue yarn I now have bought, I'm thinking of making myself one, using this as one thread and using maybe beige alpaca along with it. Also, I've been pondering if I should use this pattern istead of the Skappel pattern...be a little unique...

The other package was from Pickle! Some time last year, we did a art trade, where I made her two lemurs and she made me a couple of polar bears, and then decided to make me a musk ox as well!

She also sent me a bunch of candy and stuff! A ton of Kool Aid, some knitting equiptment and some safety eyes for amis!

Awesome international friends are awesome! I need to get stuff sent out as well...