Shut Up & Knit!

Even the sky is pink here

Isn't that a pretty sky?  Photo taken earlier in the week.  Please ignore the rain gutter on the right.  Thoughtless neighbors...

I promise I will come up with something that is NOT PINK! soon.  No idea what, but even I am growing tired of all the pinkness.

While I have no idea where the week went, I am thrilled it's the weekend again.  I have big blocking and baking plans this weekend.  Maybe even some cooking.

Be afraid!

Fiber Fluff Wednesday

Is it weird in here?  Or is it just me?

Shut up!

A couple of weeks ago, I teased you all with a photo of cute little bags stuffed with spinning fiber.  Remember?  Well, I have some finished yarn to show you.  See... I do more with my days than just go to the Target.  (Although, there are days where that seems to be the only thing I do.)

Just a tiny taste of the Merino Seacell fiber in the Salsa colorway that I ordered from Knit It Up! over at etsy.  I LOVED spinning this fiber.  The seacell added a wonderful shine to the merino and it was fast and very enjoyable to spin.  If I ever start to knit with my own handspun, I will need more of this fluff.  Thankfully for me, she has several colorway that I'm crazy about.

Shut up and show us the yarn!

Okies...

883 yards of 2-ply yarn from 4 oz of 70% superwash Merino Wool and 30% SeaCell

Can I get a Woo Hoo?

Color is better in the fluff photo here and the photo at Etsy.  Remember where you are.  Good photos are a fluke and should never be expected.  Delusions are grander are fine as long as we realize it's just my ego talking and I don't really have the skillz to back it up.  :p

A Soggy Monday

It's rainy and dark out there, people. 

Lucky me.  I get to spend the day in the car.  o.O

Wish me luck and near blind highway patrol.

Oh!  & Did you see this?

It was so weird (and wrong) to mail something out that had not be blocked, but I figure that little ear flapping Minion won't last long enough for anyone to notice.

May your Monday be drier and happier than mine.

xo

A Warm Happy Friday

No, you are not on the wrong blog.

No, I am not drunk.

Shut up.

Yesterday was a lot of fun and extremely stressful.

Fun because the above yarn bowl arrived* from the lovely La Verna.  Isn't it pretty?  I think it's totally perfect, lovely and me.  (That's a ball of DK weight wool in it, btw.)

Also fun because that lovely little handknit shawlette thingy went with me to Home Depot.  (Yes, again.)  And helped to keep me warm and dry when it started to rain.  It was clear when I left the house, people.  The yarn has little silver shiny thingies in it.  I've been told it's some of that fancy yarn with silver in that was so popular last year.  (I think it was last year.  I don't know.)

No clue about the pattern or the name of the colorway, but I do know it was a gift from my wonderful Squishy.  I am so touched AND impressed that she knit lace for me.

I'm also very grateful to our Squish and her man for holding my hand via email while I replaced a thermostat yesterday.

Don't ask.  Just know I'm a dumbass and they are totally adorable and fabulous in a cruisin' for a spanking kind of way.

Y'all are smart enough to see where the stress was yesterday.  /sigh

And that's my news. 

If my handmade yarn ever dries, there will be some show and tell.  Since the heat is working better now, it might actually dry before summer.

o.O

Happy Friday, people!

* The return address was Diane someone or other from one of the square states.  All the way home, I tried to figure out if it was our Diane or some other Diane and, if it was our Diane, how did she get my address?  Or did I give it to her and forget because I am getting older by the minute over here.  o.O 

It's unspeakably weird over here, people.

Random Wednesday

Lookies what arrived from Flocks of Yarn yesterday!  It would have been here sooner, but Monday was a postal holiday.  Our Nora sent me a gift certificate for the Clumsy Knitter's new venture and I fell in love with that very green Malabrigo lace weight.

(Thanks again, Nora!)

The magnet, lavender Eucalan and birth certificate were extra goodies.  Along with a business card that has a how to kitchener thingy on the back of it.  So cute!

No clue what I'll do with the yarn yet but I have enough yardage to have plenty of options.

Speaking of options, I spent some time wandering the Home Depot yesterday, where I tried to use girl logic to find the caulking.  Thank goodness Norman was there to help me.  I was thinking it would be in plumbing because I needed to caulk a bathtub.  Turns out it was hiding in the paint department because you use it during paint prep.  Who knew?

Norman the Greeter, that's who.

Now I'm wondering what I'm going to do with a quart of denatured alcohol that I'm stuck with.  I used three cotton ball's worth.  Yes, I got the smallest container they had.  No, I don't want to talk about it.  Maybe I'll refinish some furniture if it ever stops raining...

Not that it's going to stop raining any time soon.  Scary loud/big/loud gusts of wind, too.  We're having all kinds of fun over here today.

& No, I am perfectly fine.  It takes A LOT for my little corner of the world to flood and we're nowhere near that.  No threat of mudslides here, either.  I'm uphill, well drained and have enough supplies to survive for a while if I'm stuck in the dark or trapped at home... or my cell phone loses it's charge or cable goes down...

o.0