Temptation errrrrrr!

This basket of gorgeousness greets me every time I enter this shop. It's the new yarn from Dream in Color - Starry and it's all the new semi solids. Killed two birds with one stone on this purchase. I bought this to have on display to show what's coming. Little did I know it would drive me to distraction! I am busy on thrum mittens and every once in a while this sparkly stuff catches my eye and I'm tempted to go running to find the perfect pattern for it. Errrrrr!

I'm listening to my iTunes and there is the most appropriate song on now - describes me perfectly!

Miss Almost, Miss Maybe, Miss Halfway!

Watch Cap

Here's the Watch Cap from the 1940s. I knit it using Black Parade Dream in Color Classy - it took less than one skein. Lisa's modelling it and none too happy about it because she says she looks worse in hats than I do - and I say, absolutely not possible.

We had our Pick Up Sticks dinner last night at Gio's here in Bradford - we filled the restaurant with 20 knitters! I don't have any pictures because I was having such a good time I forgot to take them.

This arrived in the mail today - a custom colorway of Sea Silk Poinsettia which is the yarn used in the final instalment of the Garden Variety Collection by Susan Pandorf of Sunflower Designs. If you look really close you will see handpainted beads for the trimming and gold beads for the actual shawl. I have collected all of these patterns so this one was a gift from Susan. I think you can still get the whole collection and if you are the least bit interested in beaded silk designs you should.

Sarah brought me a gift - Three Sheeps to the Wind. Isn't it cute? It's supposed to be for a laundry room but it's hanging happily in our knitting room at the shop! Thank you so much, Mrs. Preston!

I've amended my Christmas knitting list - switched out the Aspenglo Wrap for Thrum mittens for my aunt and Thrum mittens for my mother in law. They knit up quicker and I really think that the wrap has to be a store sample. It soooo lovely! Ok - enough blogging back to knitting!

I should not be....

blogging, I should be knitting! I have so much left to knit for Christmas it's beginning to look impossible. Here's a really crappy picture of my sister in law's hat - knit from Cascade Superwash in black with baby pink trim. I left my camera lying around at home and the settings are all wacky now which is why the black doesn't look black and the pink looks like bleached white. The pattern is Gotham from Sunflower Designs.

Miss Mary whipped up this beauty in a few hours on Saturday. Her pattern, Noro Silk Garden Chunky! Very nice!

Right now I'm working away on a 1940s Watch Cap from WW2 for my father in law. He's going to love it! Still to go is a hat for Laura, a sweater (Einstein jacket - almost only sleeves to do), something for my mother in law, a dickie for Greg's cousin, something for my grandfather's caregiver, my aunt's Aspenglo Wrap and and and.........aaaahhhhhh!

I went shopping.....

and here's what I got:
Debbie Bliss Pure Silk in all these colors. I could not help myself - I wanted something special in the shop for Christmas. Yummy!

And Silky Merino - from Malabrigo. Another really yummy yarn!

If you love Sunflower Designs then this yarn is a must because Susan is using it in her new designs!

FPS

as my friend Sheri would say. I got an anonymous comment today saying that I lifted the Starry Dream in Color picture directly from another website. In fact, that is true however, I did ask the owner's permission and received a yes before I published it. Normally I don't pay any attention to comments that rub me the wrong way but this one could not be ignored because I wondered if anyone else was thinking the same thing. I would never take a photo without permission and if I've ever done so it was totally by mistake - as in I didn't understand all this website/internet etiquette.

Why is it that people are so willing to say negative things so quickly?