And today, Melinda came into the store and my goodness is she ever FABULOUS! We chit chatted a little bit and she was telling me all about her knitting and her spinning and she bought some gorgeous Fleece Artist sock yarns (which we FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY got in, except some snotty 'artist' ran off with BOTH skeins of the green I'm so in love with) and...she'ssoawesome! *minisquee!* So, I asked her if she blogged, because ladies that cool must be cyber stalked. And so she wrote down her URL for me and I realized that I've read her before! Small world, the knitting community!
So, in knitting news, I have four projects I have to finish in the month of December, at the very least.
The double knit mittens for my mother in fuzzysoftlovely Frog Tree alpaca (cream and light purple). Now, the fact aside that I'm knitting effing DOUBLE KNIT MITTENS, but while I love Frog Tree something fierce, it won't stop with the self love. It keeps fusing to itself!
...but not as badly as the yarn I'm using to make my auntie a shawl. Just a simple, straightforward yo, k2tog shawl. Easy peasy. Looks great in Fleece Artist Rumplesilk. Well, I'm using a Karabella yarn (9/10 I'm not a huge fan of Karabella) called Kiko a DK cotton boucle. We had it in our sale bin and I didn't get it, and then kicked myself when I saw my favorite colorway walk out the door. Well today, against all policies, my manager took it back when the customer wanted to return it and my darlings and I were reunited. The color is quite pretty: pinks and creams and greenish greys. It makes me think of Victorian Era rose gardens and when it was returned I snatched it up (I got it for 60% off, anyway). And now I know why it was on sale and why the customer returned it. It is about the most ANNOYING yarn on the surface of the planet to knit with. What a total pain. It's making me crazy.
Also, a fun and sexy gift for a good friend of mine for Christmas (I'll only say Cascade Fixation, #2706).
And last but not least, the gift I'm making up for this Secret Santa I'm involved in. I ended up drawing the name of the girl who drew me. We're both late. *total winner*
I also want: to knit Fleece Artist sooooocks, to make myself some double knit mittens (lime green and aqua, please!!), a hat and something out of the Tahiti Sunset Pizazz by Wool in the Woods:
