Oh Wollmeise Tree!

We're caught up in the pre-Christmas vortex here. Between the boys' activities, my school activities, and concerts there's been no time to even decorate our tree. Today I thought, why not decorate it with some of my favorite yarn? So while waiting for the shop update, I stuck a few colorful skeins of Wollmeise on it! Doesn't it look happy and bright? Who needs tinsel and ornaments when there's a box of Wollmeise around? Here's wishing you and yours a joyful Christmas season.

Marvelous Mail Monday

I don't usually post during the week, but apparently today was Marvelous Mail Monday. This deserves a post. What a surprise to have recent trades and purchases all converge in my mailbox at the same time. Somehow our mail carrier managed to fit all of this into our smallish box.


First up -Corgi Hill Farm roving in merino, bamboo, and Firestar....and it's named after oneo f my favorite drinks - Gin and Tonic.


Next, a Wollmeise trade. This is Turkis and Skarabus in100%-


And last, the beautiful custom-dyed yarn from Kelly at The Unique Sheep for the Enchanted Woods KAL, beginning January 10th.


Kelly based the colorway on this photo-


Didn't she do a great job of capturing the colors? Excuse me while I go play with it and wait for January to roll around :)

Cozy Saturday

It was suppose to snow today. Actually, it did snow - all around us....up the road.....down the road.....to our east, west, north, and south.....just not here. You may insert imaginary images of snowy lanes and forest paths here. It was very disappointing, but it was still a cozy day for knitting. After the food bank reports were all done, I settled in to knit a bit and play with other fibery items. To brighten the day, I made a bouquet - a spindle bouquet!

I hope it brightens your day too! ....and here's hoping for more productive snow events in the near future!

Thankfully Drama-less Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your T'day was as pleasant as ours. We spent our day in Great Falls with a lot of DH's family. Mom and Dad were there and it looks like they enjoyed their day, too!


This was the most drama we experienced during Thanksgiving. DS#2 won the honor of wearing the Turkey Hat this year! Somehow, this seems very appropriate! :)


Today, on Black Friday, I ventured into Old Town Alexandria to check out Fiber Space, a new-ish yarn shop that WendyKnits blogged about last week. Here's their cool bag, which means I must have reached a certain $$ threshold in purchases! (the Swan spindle & roving are mine, but I'm not saying what else might be the bag.....shhhhh!)



Fiber Space is a great little shop stocked with some good reliable yarns like Cascade and Berrocco, and also some hand-dyed goodies like Neighborhood Fiber Company and Miss Babs and they have lots of Malabrigo...and it's very close to my s-i-l's house. This gives me another very good reason to go visit my s-i-l a little more often!

Mom's Birthday Ishbel

Ever since my m-i-l saw me knitting the Imbloc shawl two years ago, she's been "jokingly" asking when she might expect a shawl of her own. I decided that 2009 was to be the year! I finished this project about a month ago, but have been waiting to blog about it until after the gifting portion was completed. Here's my Ishbel from start to Mom - knitted in Wollmeise Pffefferminz Prinz.











Ta-da! She loves it and I loved making it for her and giving it to her! Happy Birthday Mom (and dad too!)!

Birthday Candles x2.....Make That 1

A Gathering of Knitters

On Saturday, Janice & I headed out of our mountains and a little north of here to Graves Mountain Lodge to meet up with some plurk/Ravelry/ Facebook knitting friends from other parts of Virginia and North Carolina. Here's what we saw as soon as we got out of the car.



We met up with knitting friends, Lara, Summer, and Julie- even though we didn't know them, we recognized them by their hand-knits! We knitted for a bit, then were found by Frances and L-B, and then by Wendy, Aimee, and Dani. There was a little more knitting and then lunch-where even more knitters showed up!



Right after lunch, we hit the road for a trip out to Kid Hollow Farm -



where Pat and Steve graciously opened their studio doors so we could fondle a little yarn



and more yarn



and more yarn



and more yarn....who's that?



-and then they introduced us to their herd, a.k.a. "yarn on the hoof". :)





It was good day and good to put names to faces and get to know folks a little better, but our knitting time together was all too short...here's hoping for another chance for more gatherings of knitters in the near future!