I felt the desperate need to have a knitted gnome. No particular reason, but I just wanted a gnome. I searched online and found The Traveling Gnome pattern and it was free! (Check out the rest of her cute patterns!). I knit one...then another.....then another. They became addictive and many people wanted one. So....since I need something in return ;) I devised a game. I was shocked how many people wanted a gnome AND wanted to play the game.
Lo and behold, the Photo Scavenger Hunt begins. One gnome is now in Africa, one is at a Star Wars celebration in Orlando, one went to Bristol and 2 more just got mailed to Chicago and Maryland.
Check out the photos here: http://mailboxadventures.tumblr.com/
I'm only knitting a few every few weeks to give the guys a chance to spread out into the world. I'm excited to see the creativity that my friends can show.
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I'm currently working on Christmas gifts, including a Hitchhiker scarf that is turning out beautifully. I'm also still working on chemo caps for IU Health's Cancer Center through my group, The Firewalker Project. I just got 12 chemo caps in the mail *happy dance*
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Newly discovered podcasts! I've been gearing more towards video podcasts at home. So much better than watching TV.
Knit Me Happy
SassyPantsKnitter
I like both of them a lot so far. More to come!
Monday, August 27, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Knitting In The Sun: Book Review
I'm cheating a little with this book review because I haven't knit anything out of it yet. But I've been through it many many times and marked everything I want to knit. And it turns out, I want to knit a lot of things out of this book!
I picked this up at The Trading Post for Fiber Arts in Pendleton. We are severely lacking in LYS' in my little neck of the woods and Susan has a really well stocked shop on her alpaca farm. Complete with friendly LYS dog. :) I picked up a skein of red yarn I needed to continue Adventure Gnomes and grabbed a skein of "homegrown" alpaca yarn along with this book.
Knitting in the Sun: 32 Project for Warm Weather by Kristi Porter met my conditions for buying a knitting pattern book. I must want to knit more than a few patterns before I buy a book. The patterns must be something I want for myself or as gifts. It probably helped that I just (as in the day before) got back from 10 days on the beach in Florida.
The Anacapa wrap (as seen on the cover) is beautiful! I've not done cables yet and this contains lots of them (with charts that are downloadable from a website). It's too pretty not to mark as a potential project.
The Silver Strand Ocean Waves wrap is also very pretty and does remind me of the ocean. It's lacy and very lightweight looking, perfect to wear in the air conditioning but doesn't look like it will smother you out in the heat.
The Cinnamon Bay Beach Bag blanket is brilliant and I wish I had had it at the beach. It's a circular blanket that, with I-cord, becomes a bag.
I'm on the fence about the Ludington Smocked tube top. Not because it's not pretty, because it is. But, honestly, I have never had the .... body....that could keep a tube top up. Sad to say, but true.
I did mark several of the short sleeve patterns and long sleeve patterns. But the next pattern that made me say "Ooooooh I want that." was the Coronado shawl collared cardigan. Oooh I want that. I live in cardigans, even through summer. I very rarely (if ever) just wear pullover type sweaters so any cardigan like this makes me happy.
The Cabrillo openwork skirt is SO frickin' cute. You do need to wear something under it because it's very open lace but it's just cute. Did I mention it's cute. *marking pattern*
The last pattern that I really want to make is the Vernazza Summer Sleep Set. It's a little jammie set with a cami and tap pants and I'm pretty sure I need this.
Ravelry has quite a lot of these in their project list and they are quite pretty. I love browsing other knitters FOs for the projects I want to do.
Listening to/Watching Podcast: The Knitgirllls
I picked this up at The Trading Post for Fiber Arts in Pendleton. We are severely lacking in LYS' in my little neck of the woods and Susan has a really well stocked shop on her alpaca farm. Complete with friendly LYS dog. :) I picked up a skein of red yarn I needed to continue Adventure Gnomes and grabbed a skein of "homegrown" alpaca yarn along with this book.
Knitting in the Sun: 32 Project for Warm Weather by Kristi Porter met my conditions for buying a knitting pattern book. I must want to knit more than a few patterns before I buy a book. The patterns must be something I want for myself or as gifts. It probably helped that I just (as in the day before) got back from 10 days on the beach in Florida.
The Anacapa wrap (as seen on the cover) is beautiful! I've not done cables yet and this contains lots of them (with charts that are downloadable from a website). It's too pretty not to mark as a potential project.
The Silver Strand Ocean Waves wrap is also very pretty and does remind me of the ocean. It's lacy and very lightweight looking, perfect to wear in the air conditioning but doesn't look like it will smother you out in the heat.
The Cinnamon Bay Beach Bag blanket is brilliant and I wish I had had it at the beach. It's a circular blanket that, with I-cord, becomes a bag.
I'm on the fence about the Ludington Smocked tube top. Not because it's not pretty, because it is. But, honestly, I have never had the .... body....that could keep a tube top up. Sad to say, but true.
I did mark several of the short sleeve patterns and long sleeve patterns. But the next pattern that made me say "Ooooooh I want that." was the Coronado shawl collared cardigan. Oooh I want that. I live in cardigans, even through summer. I very rarely (if ever) just wear pullover type sweaters so any cardigan like this makes me happy.
The Cabrillo openwork skirt is SO frickin' cute. You do need to wear something under it because it's very open lace but it's just cute. Did I mention it's cute. *marking pattern*
The last pattern that I really want to make is the Vernazza Summer Sleep Set. It's a little jammie set with a cami and tap pants and I'm pretty sure I need this.
Ravelry has quite a lot of these in their project list and they are quite pretty. I love browsing other knitters FOs for the projects I want to do.
Listening to/Watching Podcast: The Knitgirllls
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