Shiny #1 – Pretty, pretty socks.

My first shiny object? 2 gorgeous socks – designed specifically for Destination Yarn!

Remember the Amber Waves of Grain socks?

The kit including pattern and this yarn is now available! If you want one (and you know you do) you can buy them either through the whenever_again yahoo group here, or their ravelry group here. They are only taking orders through Nov 15 so get them while you can!

Dawn – the incredibly talented designer over at knitting nonstop (her Rav group is here) – has designed a new sock pattern featuring Sea from the America the Beautiful Series. Check out how shiny:

Squeee!!!!

The pattern isn’t available yet but she’s having a naming contest. Head over to her blog and post your ideas. I’ve heard the prize is pretty awesome. Also I will be doing another run of this limited edition colorway once she releases the pattern – probably sometime in the next few weeks.

And my last shiny…. Today I’m going to a sock class taught by Cookie A. Yes. THE Cookie A. Of Sock Innovations. And Monkeys and Sunshine. Uh huh. I’m going to try not to make an ass out of myself being all “I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy” but no promises. It’s Cookie flipping A.

Rock.

Shiny times ahead!

So my new reclaim the blog plan is to commit to posting a Shiny once a week. Even if it’s just one image. I just need to get my creative juices flowing again and hopefully things will take off from there.


Shiny: Something that makes you go “squee” or “oooh” or “fuzzy” or “eeeh!”

For example...

Baby going to town on a club cracker =  Shiny!

I love mommy because she's going get all of the sweet taters out of my hairs!


Pretty pretty yarn = Shiny!

Custom order I dyed - the three solids match the three colors in New Orleans.

Bean in Chicago = literally shiny!

Vacation we took in July that sadly went unblogged.

Really, really shiny.


We stopped in Chicago pretty much just to see the bean.  Totally worth it.

Family picture in the bean = TOO SHINY!



I’m guessing that this will include lots of pictures of my kid, my dog, my yarn, or my knitting. At the very least I’ll dig back and post a pretty travel photograph. But expect something visually interesting at least once a week.

Shiny times ahead!

Fall is flying by

How about a catch-up list?

1.) At the beginning of Oct. we took a trip to Dayton for the wedding of one of my former college roommates:

It was crazy to see people we hadn’t seen since graduation. And even crazier to introduce them to our baby. Man how time flies!

1.) Our five year anniversary was Oct 9:

It’s odd to me not that it could pass with so little fanfar – but that we would be so very ok with that. We’re just too busy right now to take any time to go anywhere or do anything interesting. So we celebrated simply at home and honestly a night to just hang out together without either of us working was pretty awesome.

2.) Since we didn’t take a fall trip this year I’ve been reliving past years through yarn:

1. Mulled Wine, 2. Fall Road Trip, 3. Fall Road Trip, 4. Fall Road Trip, 5. Harvest Moon, 6. Fall Road Trip

New series semi-solids based on a Fall Road Trip.

I’m a big fan of all of them and so I think these will stick around for awhile. Perhaps not permanent additions to my line but I will definitely dye them again.  They are all available now at Destination Yarn!

Oh and I did the compilation, too:

Which looks exactly like if you were driving through fall:


3.) I was sick all of the week before Halloween so we didn’t do anything – which sucked b/c there was a big party I was looking forward to for awhile. Boo to that. The baby, however, was a bumblebee:

Bzzzz

Which was about the cutest thing in the entire world.

And that’s about all I’ve got. I have a plan, though, which will hopefully get me blogging again… more on it later!

Baby vs Food

So we've started trying to feed the baby finger foods... and the results are pretty hilarious. Poor kid doesn't quite get it yet:

Ooooh Yay! I like Sweet Potato Puffs!


I just have to figure out how to get them into my mouth...


I think I grab it with my hand...


And then put it in my mouth.


I said "and then I put it in my mouth"


I don't understand why that didn't work.


Ooooh ok it's in the other hand! Now I get it.


I just put it in my mouth.


It's ok. It's ok. I can figure this out.


I just put it in my mouth.


This is seriously starting to piss me off.


Maybe if I shove my whole fist in?


Or could you just put one in there for me?


Thanks, Mommy! That was delicious!

Shalom!

So remember waaaay back when that I was knitting a Shalom?

Yeah I did actually finish that:


And wore it:

A lot. Pictures were taken 2 weeks before our daughter was born, btw.


I basically lived in that sweater towards the end of my pregnancy. It was the only thing that kept me warm without overheating me and starting the sweating OMG the sweating seriously why is it so hot in here isn’t it supposed to be winter?!

Have I mentioned that I’m happy I’m not pregnant anymore?

Anyways! I’m thinking that there are 3 reasons I was able to crank that sweater out and actually finish it:

1.) it was out of bulky yarn (Lamb’s Pride Bulky to be exact)
2.) the Cleveland Knits West group was doing a knit along (Must knit faster to keep up!)
3.) it was seamless so it never sat in my knitting basket for months just waiting for me to sew it together (shut up. Trellis. She’s not big enough to wear you yet anyways.)

So when they posted that they were doing another knit along for this:

Heather Hoodie from the fall 2009 Knit Scene

I just couldn’t resist.

I’m using Eco Wool which is fabulously sheepy:

And I think the gray/brown color I picked will go with just about everything and anything.



I reworked the ribbing b/c for whatever reason at the size I’m knitting the cables didn’t flow perfectly out of the ribbing. And that will NOT do. I like things to line up perfectly:

Also now that I’m not working as an architect anymore knitting is the only place to get my OCD on.

But other than that so far so good. It seems to be the perfect fall knit. Yay for bulky yarn!