This is it!/ Give-A-Way

Yes this is it!!!! A new post finally. Even though months have passed and I haven't posted here, our thoughts are still on all the wonderful people we have met through this blog. Of course I have written a post many times in my  head but not taken the time to write it down. We missed our 3rd Blogiversary. Many events have come and gone. Thanksgiving has even passed us by. Christmas is just around the corner. We have gotten our yearly Christmas card from the Meir Family already (thanks Carol, Loved it! ).
It's funny how certain things tend to get overlooked. Let's just say, we are still happily doing our favorite things:  knitting  and buying yarn(not so much), we even caught the 6am sale at Fibre Space on Black Friday. It was a blast.
I decided it was time to catch up on things, including this blog. Chelette just had minor surgery. She is doing well and I am here with her for a few days to help out. We have had fun knitting and playing with patterns and yarn. She and I both finished a few already started projects. Now, if only I could have another week off from work, I could really get some knitting done. Of course that isn't possible, back to work as usual on Monday.

We have decided that we are going to use this post to announce a "Give A Way" for all those events we missed and a thank you to everyone who have visited us in the past.
All you have to do is place a comment on this post telling us how long you have been reading this blog and how you discovered us...
I know you want to know what the prizes are. All I am going to say is  it will be from our favorite yarns, Wollmeise, Neighborhood Fiber Co and  Bugga(all ravelry links). This should be fun.
We have been trying to do this since the summer and I am finally getting around to it.
The ending deadline will be  December the 15th. at midnight.
It will be nice to hear from those who have never left a comment but who read this blog. Have a great week♥ We look forward  to hearing from you.

Wollmeise Giveaway

Here it is. The best give-away that you could imagine. You know how hard it is to acquire wollmeise, well here you can get it for FREE! Go over to Lina's Blog and enter to win. You can check out her awesome photos of her beautiful stash of wollmeise.
I have enjoyed reading Lina's blog for about a year now. She is an awesome knitter and photographer. She takes pictures of Kubrick and Hitchcock, her two beautiful Havanese dogs.
I always look forward to seeing what she's knitting next.

In other news.
I am still busy working away on the same shawl since March. I have done 3 repeats and have decided to make it even bigger since Chelette found me 5 more skeins of it at A Tangled Skein YAY!
Chelette is getting ready to work on her third shawl. She is also about to finish Rusted Root. She completed Milkweed last month.
We both are presently on a yarn diet. No more yarn until MSWF(May 1st). So far so good. Only 21 more days to go. I hope the weather is better this year. Last year their was a lot of rain and mud. Chelette was sick and really didn't buy anything last year. This year we will be attending the Ravelry After Party. There's also going to be a Podcaster/listener Meetup that I am looking forward to. Hope to see some of you there♥

Day 20...TGIF

here's some progress on my
Autumn Vine Stole, I love the sparkle♥

Up early again!!! Just in time for a Wollmeise Update....YAY. Zeni is mine now.
Thank God it's Friday. It was a long week for me. I am happy to announce that I am off work this weekend Yippee!!!. It was rough after being off last week. Almost each night I came in from work and crashed. I have started this new habit of going to sleep early and waking up at midnight. I need to get back on schedule.



I am so happy Pam(Trillian42/ravelry) at Katydid Knits told me about Tom Bihn Bags. You are right, they are awesome and look so well made. I placed an order last night. They even have project bags. The clear cases are nice too. I think I heard about these long ago from It's A Purl Man's podcast, but had forgotten.

I didn't make it to Sit and Knit on Wednesday, I was too pooped. This is the time of the year when the work load becomes busy and heavier. I didn't get to knit much at all in fact. My Autumn Vine Stole is at a standstill. Hopefully this weekend when I catch up on my shows I can get some knitting in.

Have a good Friday Everyone♥

Day 17...Ten on Tuesday

hello all. It's been a few days since I posted. The weekend was packed for me. I will post more about that tomorrow. Today I'm glad Yano made today's post easy

Ten Thing You Wish You Knew How To Do

1. I wish I knew how to knit faster

2. Swim.. I had bad expierence when I was little.. Will I ever get over it??

3. Speak Portuguese fluently

4. I wish I knew how it feels to be Free!! can't help thinking about this song.

5. Make yeast rolls... of course this is something I can't learn. But no one made them
better than my Granny... I wish I had paid closer attention while she prepared them

6. Write poetry and essays as good as my friend Don.. go check him out... Man I love reading your words

7. Spin yarn as beautiful as my friend Jana... it's beautiful and I love handspun.. Maybe I will
get to it one of these days...

8. Dance like Beyonce... This girls has moves, that everyone wishes they could have

9. Take a trip to Germany to see Claudia and touch and buy Wollmeise first hand

10. Win the Lottery and change the world... That's a loaded one isn't it♥
First I guess I would have to start playing wouldn't I. I always think ,, it only takes one to WIN. so I only buy when I feel the urge..

Okay I'm so happy to be posting this in the am.. I had plenty of sleep last night.
Have a great day!

So what have we been up to…....

Two of our knitting buddies (Cheryl and Arthella) decided they wanted to get together to learn toe up socks. So we have been meeting periodically and they have really come a long way. They are turning their heels on their toe up socks this weekend. Great job girls. This has sparked us to get back into working on socks too. I am working on Lacy Ribs Socks (2 @ a time) and Chelette is working on a pair of Monkeys. She finished her FLS and just need buttons. Well, we have a new addiction to Yarn. We have been ISO Wollmeise. It started around April when I decided to get some for Chelette’s birthday and then Chelette was able to get some for my birthday. Since then we have learned a lot about the Wollmeise via Ravelry. The yarn is simply beautiful.

We also have been able to get some limited edition Sundara. We love how the updates have changed and are going to be more frequent – I believe every Monday. We fell in love with this yarn via the Seasons sock club.

We will be missing Sock Summit this week. As much as we wanted to be there it just didn’t work out. We couldn’t get any classes – so we didn’t see the point, but plan to get to Seattle/Portland sometime in the near future for sure. Let’s look at it this way we are using Sock Summit money to buy the Sundara and Wollmeise.

One of the reasons I haven’t been posting as frequently is that I finally moved back closer to my job. I am about 10 minutes(if I go real slow) from work and I must say that I do not miss the commute. I have not gotten my internet connected yet so I am way behind on email and keeping up with my blogging friends. I am still going to try to make sit and knit on Wednesdays.

Another reason we haven’t been blogging is Chelette is still celebrating her birthday(hehe…April she has taken a trip every month). Last week she took a trip to Fort Lauderdale. She went with non knitting friends and didn’t get to visit any yarn shops.

Today has been a good day to take out our yarn and see what projects we can assign to yarn we already have. Looks like we have enough yarn to last both of our lifetimes and then some, but who cares. We love it. It is so good to have someone that shares your love for our craft.

I think that’s enough for now. I am sure you missed our Ten on Tuesday, so look for a new one soon.
Again, thank you everyone for your inquires about our absence, we have missed you too!!