glam

Busy, Busy, Busy, I finally received the Glam Grrl base yarn and have been working on getting them dyed for The Loopy Ewe and the Trunk Show at SWAK in the City on October 23 and 24.  This picture is a small sampling of what I have been dyeing.  I have really tried to make sure that there is a lot of diversity.  I will be getting this off to UPS and The Loopy Ewe tomorrow. 

I am really looking forward to the Trunk Show at SWAK later this month and of course seeing Wendy again.  She will be teaching several classes at SWAK and I am so happy that I will be able to spend some time with her again.  I highly recommend classes with Wendy, she is an excellent teacher and a very talented designer. 

Speaking of Wendy, she and I are in the process of collaborating on a project.  To be honest I approached her a few weeks ago and asked if she would be interested in putting a kit together including one of her shawl designs and some of my hand dyed yarns, specifically the Luxe cashmere base yarn.  Today she posted pictures of her finished "Stacy Shawl", I complained about the name but she said she likes it, at least she doesn't know my real name. LOL  I am amazed at her creative design abilities.  Seriously, I contacted her and before I could dye the yarn she already knew what she was going to do.  This is really a very exciting project and I am looking forward to knitting my own "Stacy Shawl".  I am hoping to get the kits together and ready to post by next weekend.  Like Wendy said, I agree that this will be a wonderful quick gift idea.  I hope you all will enjoy it.  I will be dyeing many different colors for this project, feel free to let me know what colors you would like to see it in.

I have been working away at Emily's "Order to Chaos" and it is coming along very well.  It is going to be HUGE,I am estimating that it is at least 5 feet in diameter so far and I still have half of chart D, all of chart E and the edging to go. 

If you notice the first picture in this post all those skeins are laying on the shawl and will give you some idea of how large this is going to be.

See what I got in the mail!!  I finally just couldn't stand it any longer and had to order some Ravelry loot.  I LOVE my shirt, however apparently so did my daughter.  She came sneaking in this morning and with much stealth snatched it and put it on.  "It fits!!!! Can I wear it PLEASE??"  She really did look cute in it so of course being the push over I am I let her.  I also immediately got back on the Ravelry Minimart and got her a shirt too, guess which one she wanted....Disagree(1), she is 11 after all. 

Take a second and look at the top tab.  We now have a Custom Order form that can be filled out and immediately emailed to me.  You can pick your yarn or fiber and have it dyed just for you.  Please feel free to use it!

This is not the greatest picture but the colors  are    amazing and when I looked at it the first thing that came to mind was Monet.  When I look at a  painting by Monet I have always thought of daydreams.  A little fuzzy around the edges but the picture is still very clear.  Obviously I am no art critic but that is what it makes me think of, so I named this colorway 'Daydream'.  It will soon be up on TLE, along with 13 other colorways in Glam.

I am seriously considering several of the contest entries and am hoping to have decided by the end of the weekend.   You still have a little longer to submit entries.

Been busy around here again.  I have been getting orders ready for Re Belle in Kentucky and for Ball and Skein(newest store) in Ohio.   It is so exciting to send yarn out across the country, I still can't believe that Tempted is all over now.   I am so happy to show you all some of the colors that I am sending out into the world.  Thigh Highs  (Black with Turquoise resists) and Femme (pink and black) will be hitting stores soon. 

 I have also been a little under the weather for the last several days.  I absolutely hate headaches, especially those that last for several days.  Anyway it really slowed me down.  I am feeling better today and have a whole lot of catching up to do around here.   I felt so bad I didn't even want to knit and that is really saying something, just laid up with a pillow over my head.

Speaking of knitting I am working on Linear out of the Norah Gaughan Woodland Gothic booklet from Berroco.  I am using Palace instead of the Inca Gold that they recommend.  It is working out wonderfully.  I have learned something interesting about myself in the process too.  I have always been a thrower, but all the sudden I have become a picker.  I had just finished the ribbing for the back and I had an overwhelming desire to work in continental!  Now I have finished the back and am working in the left front and have been knitting continental ever since.  Don't know what came over me, but I am knitting faster now.

So how do you knit?  Are you a thrower, picker or do you switch?