Special Order Yarn

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I special ordered this yarn from Awenydd Yarn and Fiber who also has a YouTube channel. I got it in the mail today and she sent with it a very cute little strawberry progress keeper :). She does some awesome yarn dying and I love her Wild Card Wednesday on her YouTube channel, where she has a random picker program that picks 3 colors at random and she will dye a skein of yarn using those 3 colors. It’s so fun to watch her decide how to use them together. :). I wanted black with the red random dots but her new black dye had issues and it ended up as a deep chocolate brown. She offered to redye a new skein, but I told her to send it anyway because honestly this is beautiful so I told her I wanted to keep it, 🙂 and if my daughter insisted on black yarn I would reorder another skein. She is very easy to work with, I told her she should put that color in her shop!

The hat I am making with it (I will put a picture in when I start the hat) is for my daughter who really wanted just a plain black yarn but I know she loves red so I wanted to have those random red dots in there for a pop of color (you know as a knitter plain black yarn is not as fun to knit :P). If she insists on the black instead of the brown, I will reorder it for her, then I’m keeping the brown for me :). I would just make it for her and say oops, but she wants a messy bun hat for a pony tail for her long hair and I want just a regular closed crown on a hat so I will ask her before knitting the hat for her. Crossing my fingers :).

Storm headed our way this week end, it’s gonna a be a bad one for those above us at first then for those below us and as it heads east. Everyone in it’s path please keep an eye on your local weather, it is covering a wide path with lots of snow above us and some snow for us (about 4 inches they said) and tornados for those east of us, be safe.

Spring Snow

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Well I woke up this morning to a little Spring snow storm. We didn’t get much of the storm part, that was well below us, but we did manage to get a dusting of snow from it. :). That was after a day with a temp at up 70F (quite warm for this time of year) before the cold front from the north came in bringing this. Some of the trees are getting ready to bud out, hope we don’t get a freeze, it’s a little early for this by a few weeks weather wise. Hope everyone that was in the way of this storm, which was quite severe in some states, are ok.

Comfort Shawl for a Friend WIP

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A friend of mine lost her mom last month so I thought I would knit her a comfort shawl. Her mom loved blue so I thought I would make it in blue that has some green to give it depth. I used Homespun by Lion brand, which is a bulky yarn, in the color Lagoon. I am not a big fan of the Lion brand Homespun yarn because it’s splitty, but it makes a nice soft thicker blanket type of fabric. I cast on 68 stitches and knit it in a garter stitch with a size 10 needle. It will take 3 skeins to finish the length. If you need it wider just add extra stitches when you cast on and grab another skein :P.

A thunder storm will be blowing in about 9pm tonight and then more rain mid week next week. Spring weather!! Sure wish they would quit doing the spring forward with the time thing, it sure messes up my sleep for a month or so.

Baby Sweater FO

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I show the sleeves pulled on the top so you could see the cables. When I straighten it out, the yoke sets properly. I used Yarn Bee Warm & Cozy, color Spa. It’s a nice soft yarn but I don’t think it held the cable texture very well. I will probably go back to the “I love This Yarn” for the baby sweaters. I used my Knit Picks 16 inch fixed circular needles size 7 for the body, what was called for in the pattern. I usually use a size down because I knit a little loosely, but since I needed it to be a 6 months instead of a 3 months size (you know how fast they grow!!), the size up needle worked well. I used my Knitter’s Pride Dreamz, 9″ size 7 for the sleeves and a size 6 for the cuffs. I think next time I’ll go down to a 5 on the cuffs and bottom of the sweater.

Three New Shirts

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I thought I would lighten the mood with the 3 shirts I bought over the last 6 weeks. Needed new shirts and thought it would be fun to wear shirts that made me laugh or smile. Added bonus it makes others laugh or smile too!!

I’ve only been able to get online here and there as my internet service is having a problem tracking down the problem, looks like it’s one of their cable inside my wall somewhere. So they are meeting with my landlord to talk and see if it’s something my landlord has to hire a contractor to fix or something they have to fix. Sigh. The only other option, after checking out the other internet services in my area, is starlink. It’s only $50 to $80 a month depending on the speed you need. (Sorry dad, my dad always taught me to never use money and only in the same sentence :P). They said the lower amount was fine for streaming, the higher for businesses that need more.