Fairies, socks, and a wolf in grandma's (flower?) bed...

Day late...and too many photos to print...
will just have to pick out the best.
First up...what's on my needles, lest I get
too much away from knitting...I am deep into a
free form project, and now that I am halfway
through, I must say it is so addicting!
Hope to have photos up on that one by Friday.

First up: went to the Rhode Island
Spring Flower and Garden Show
in Providence, Rhode Island this weekend...
this was my first visit
to this particular show...and I would classify
it as a Keeper!
This year's theme was Fairy Tales,
and they all seemed to be well
represented and the whole show was
most enchanting...
My major purchase was a large bunch of
pussy willows for only $4.
and we all got free flower seeds,
mine were "forget me not."







A few more photos of more commonly known fairy tales:
Hansel & Gretel, the 3 Little Pigs, and even the Big Bad Wolf
in Granny's bed, which is depicted here as a "Flower Bed."













And a few final lovely flower scenes...











I went with a girlfriend and we squeezed in time
for just one yarn store
experience in Rhode Island...we chose the Yarn Outlet
in Pawtucket, R.I.
as it was actually on our way.
We were both pleased, and went home
with several new purchases...
they have loads of books, most of which
were on sale...and lots of lovely sale yarn also.
my favorite purchase was a skein of
filatura di crosa party yarn, which looks
exactly like green grass knit up...
Easter is coming folks....need that
green grass...for my knitted eggs and
knitted bunnies..........

Finally, I am currently back to knitting socks,
found an ankle sock pattern that I really love,
and knits up really quick too, just grabbed some
crazy Easterish colored yarn from my stash...
and now I have some lovely socks for the spring.
Worsted Ankle Sock Pattern can be found here:
http://www.kraemeryarns.com/patterns/pdfs/ttw_anklesocks.pdf

then I went into my new Kristin Nicholas book,
Kristin Knits and made some of her wild colored
socks with her signature embroidery.

It's 2008!

Can You Believe It, it's 2008 and it's snowing
AGAIN....
But then it's New England.


More knitting.............
Banana Republic Knock off hat pattern by metaphysical_muse from Craftster
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=197572.0
can you believe 98 people on Ravelry have this posted from a single free pattern
Mine is made from Noro Silk Garden





As it is still snowing... back to my knitting...........
Oh and this year am making
Knitting New Year Resolutions....thank you
Brenda Dayne from the wonderful Knitting Podcast,
"Cast On" who has done this very thing in the past....
by the way,
For those who listen avidly, Episode #59 is up!
and for anyone that has never heard her podcast...
She has such an elegant speaking voice and
there are lots of things to learn about
knitting as you listen
Her podcast can be found on
http://www.cast-on.com/

Anyway, My resolutions
1. Try artistic knitting.
2. Fair Isle knitting.
3. tackle one of those Japanese language only patterns.
4. and finally...Work on Da Stash...
If you think No. 3 is impossible, I have grave concerns
myself about #4.
I have very exciting ideas for #1,
believe me it won't be wearable...
but exciting, stay tuned.
Happy 2008 Knitting to All!

Harry is here, finally...............and Etsy store coming soon....

YEAHHHH**** Finally finished it.... Harry Who????.... and got lots of pretty good photos today. soooo excited. Totally wrote the pattern, his black robe, sleeves, and red tie. I needle felted the hair, that part was so much fun...enjoyed the whole thing...this is my own pattern and is only for myself. I have no intention of selling him or selling the pattern...but it was a great personal challenge....
please leave me feedback as to what you think. it's inspiring me to write more patterns.





Harry and the Whomping Ivy Plant






And Harry needs some kind of spell for that cat who is about to eat him....the rest are Harry in the garden...by the way, Harry is a finger puppet, which can be seen in one of the photos....

Even more exciting, almost have my first item ready to post in the Etsy store, it is a regular item, that should be popular, unlike my other unusual (which can't really be called regular items) knits................................

Oops...off to NYC

Just remembered won't be able to do a new post next weekend as I am off to New York City, hooray....with friends...plays, food, and Soho, plus yarn stores...yum...

so since I can't be over in England, (United Kingdom) to be part of the Knitted Garden, if you haven't heard of it, do a seach, the photos are unbelievable and now they are creating a Knitted Picnic....so here is some of my own contributions...

Knitted garden tool with my new coffee plant I purchased at the New England Flower Show, and it is still alive...now that's a surprise... suppose to be able to actually harvest coffee beans from this plant...yah sure...but it's green, so that's a start

This is a small photo from the Knitted Garden in the UK, isn't it awesome!

This is my blue morpho butterfly and a red ladybug on a knitted green leaf.

Bumblebee on knitted purple flower and caterpillar on leaf

hopefully will get some great NYC photos, not sure how much knitting will get done...

Post Easter

Easter has come and gone so quickly, but wasn't Easter without the trifle, so finally got a photo of the classic every Easter and every Thankgiving Heath Bar, Devil's Food Cake, Chocolate pudding, and coolwhip trifle.... see photo

Yes! finally have some yarn and loads of great projects in the works....more socks, sweater, etc.
Oh what to do first...
Finished my felted knitted lunch bag, and am on the hunt for just the right clasp. will try to include before and after felting photos. (Say that 3 times in a row)...felting photos, felting photos, felting photos.....
cheeseburger was a big hit, came out really good, but not sure how many points this version would be...wouldn't yarn be considered part of a fiber diet...

more food to come as I need to pack a lunch in my new lunch bag....
also included in this post is my knitted strawberries, as I can't knit just junk food, gotta have some healthy knitting too.

Stormy weather coming Monday so should have extra knitting time....Yeah...

Spring Time at last

April 1, 2007....Hooray....it's finally Spring!

My bulbs are up outside, and the purple
flowers are blooming. So here is my new
knitted watering can just in time for Spring.

Now I guess I'd better knit up some flowers

to water................

My latest project is now socks, I have finally

made my first pair, and so addicting, made a
second pair, and have started a third, I can

see why everyone else is doing the sock
craze...it is way too much fun.........

Pictures on next post...

This is Shy Guy. I think he is a character from Mario, a Nintendo game. My son gave me a photo and said to try and recreate it...fairly good likeness. He is a pretty photogenic little stuffed knit guy.

This is Tic-Toc, a usually not so

photogenic kitty

March 29, 2007 First Post (Blog) Ever!!!

Day 1: first blog and having a horrible time figuring out how to get pictures, etc. maybe there is a class somewhere on blogging....well bear with me, this could be a slow process.

Alrighty....here goes... a felted bowl with needle felted sheep adapted from the Book, One Skein

Sigh....hoping I can figure out more of this for my next (hopefully longer) entry!