Is this the yummiest yarn you have ever seen? I have been really having a great time with a swap I have been doing through www.iwasknittogetherinmymotherswomb.typepad.com . It has been a really fun swap with really great people, organized by the nicest lady. This ,sadly, is the final month but my partner Elizabeth made sure she finished it up great for me! It felt so crazy to get not one, but two stellar swap packages this week. Elizabeth (go say hi! http://www.k1p1k2tog.typepad.com/my_favorite_things/put in this amazing Lorna's Laes and Tiny Toes and it is just the push I need to finally get some socks on my needles. The box was so full- I just kept pulling out more and more treats including these three (3!) books. The Stocking book has the cutest stocking ornament pattern so that might be a good little entry into sock knitting.
She also included the sweetest scarf kit complete with pink translucent knitting needles. The best part is that they have glitter in them! I don't think better needles exist for me.
And here is the rest . It really was such an amazingly lovely and generous box of goodies.
The little sweater pattern is so cute- complete with huge pom poms. Elizabeth is a Grandma and I think I know how her grandkids feel because she has the spoiling thing perfected!
It has been amazingly beautiful around here lately. Today it was 78 and the sun was out all day. The fall is so amazing because the quality of light is so different. Sadly they say it is going to get cold starting sunday. Little secret here- I really do not enjoy the winter. I hate the cold and all the dark is too much. Get up and its dark, eat dinner in the dark. Ugh. I dread the cold months to come. I think I need to sit down and make some sort of game plan so that I can pace myself through the winter and try to enjoy it. Or atleast make the best of it. Any suggestions?
Hubby was putting up the new shed the other day while I was at work and he was home with the kids and a piece of sheet metal fell and cut the back of his hand. It really did a number on him and I had to come home from work so he could go get stitches. It was so bad he had to get stitches inside the cut and on the outside. Yikes! I felt pretty bad for him- it looks very painful. I hope no one is too sensitive to this, but I will say there were copious amounts of blood. As I was looking at the mess the blood made all over the shed and on the deck, I saw that , in his clueless husbandly way, he grabbed MY GRANDMA'S VINTAGE LINEN TEA TOWEL to wipe up some of the mess. For a split second I almost didn't feel sorry for him anymore. But that is just silly. But ,wow, that was a really cute little towel before yesterday. I thought that you guys could appreciate that. Have a great friday!
I keep checking back hoping to find other's comments on the miracle cure for winter. I wish I had one to give you. A few days of cloudy weather made me feel pretty depressed and I realized that the shorter days make the cloudy weather even harder to bear. Last year in desperation I built a lightbox to blast a little fake sunlight in my face in the morning before the real sun ever got close to the horizon. I had to dig it out this week and I am hoping that getting started earlier in the fall will help me when the days get really short. I made mine on the cheap out of an old wooden speaker box and cheap bathroom light fixtures. Crazy, I know, but email me, if you want some ideas of how to do this without it costing a wad!
Hopefully making something with that yummy yarn will also help. For me it is quilting... I love being draped in a nearly completed quilt this time of year. And I'm sorry about your hubby's hand (and the tea towel.)
Posted by: Bee | October 13, 2006 at 08:35 PM
What a great package!
The thing that works best for me for beating the winter dark is going for a walk at lunchtime so I get sometime in the sunshine (or at least in the daylight).
You could try using peroxide on your Grandma's teatowel. My sister is a nurse and swears by peroxide for getting the blood out. Good luck.
Posted by: Mary Lynn | October 14, 2006 at 03:41 AM
Wow!! With all that pink and red, you would think it was Lolly's Project Spectrum March all over again. Fabulous goodies galore! I am sorry about the tea towel, but I do hope that 1) you can get the blood out and 2) that your DH is okay.
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Posted by: Kimberly | October 14, 2006 at 07:44 AM
I just found your blog...great inspiration!
Posted by: rachel | October 14, 2006 at 06:07 PM
Love, love the colors!!! What great yarn for socks... and socks are a great way to pass the winter-time blues. They knit fast, so you feel that you have accomplished something in a short amount of time. Sorry about the spouse's hand... and the tea towel. Don't tell D, but I had to laugh. Out of anything he could have grabbed in your house, he picked a vintage linen. Hope he heals quickly.
Lori
Posted by: Lori | October 15, 2006 at 09:34 PM
What an incredible swap package! Elizabeth has been such a wonderful swapper, and I am delighted that you had her for this last month. We'll have to think up another cool swap for the winter months ahead!
Posted by: Lynne | October 16, 2006 at 08:06 AM