CarmelKnits, etc.

I think I've said before that I started knitting about 10 years ago, but none of it really made sense until 2007 when I did two things. 1. I took a begining sock class and 2. I signed up my niece for begining knitting and took it with her. My theory is that you always learn something different the second time around. That being said I have decided to unleash on you most of what I have learned or where I learned it from. This all sparked from a friend, a very very dear friend of mine who said "i knit a couple years ago and I've thought about taking it up again", she might as well have waved carrots in front of a stallion! Luckily for her she lives in Minnesota preventing me from showing up on her door step in a U-Haul full of yarn and other assorted knitterly items........Instead I emailed her this......... Top Books Every Knitter should want, need, and have (according to me) The Book of Yarn: Tells you everything you ever needed to know about yarn, weight, gauge, fibe...

It's over, the holidays and yet to walk through the grocery store's, drug stores, and malls, you would think that cupid went on a bender and yarked love and happiness all over the place when really after all the rush of Christmas, the Holiday Cheer both in spirit and in bottle, in fact on Christmas Day I found quite a bit of Holiday Cheer in about a bottle and a half of wine, oh well that was last year and we're forging ahead like a team of oxen into 2010. Which started with a yarn sale at my LYS So Much Yarn + a very generous gift card from my mom for Christmas + the fact that I am gainfully employed at So Much Yarn one day a week. All these combined = one happy knitter, who quite honestly is feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of it, but really, what else is new. However it's a new year and time to set new goals or hit repeat on last years goals.....if I could remember what last years goals where.....hmmm, oh well time for new ones, out with the old, in with the new. Ho...

My friends own 2 adorable tiny dogs. First you have Dewberry, the Chihuahua who was raised in a home with carpet and now that my friends have bought a new home and put in hardwood floors he's petrified to walk on them so they carry him from carpet to carpet. Then there is Albert the Pomeranian. He is super fluffy and after doing some research into Angora rabbits we've come to the conclusion that he must have some Angora in his bloodline. Early in December I knit a few shrugs, one was stolen by my mom, 1 was knit too tight, and a 3rd was knit to short. The tight one when to Lori, the short one went to Carrie, who when she tried it on at home made the discovery that Albert loves wool. He rubbed himself silly on it. So I took a bunch of Burly Spun scrap yarn and knit him a little cloth swatch. This is the result. My favorite part is Dewberry making a play for the cloth and Carrie's laugh at the end. Happy New Year