Happy Birthdays!

We have a lot of kids that were born in August!
I'd give anything to be able to take these two cuties to Toys R Us to buy something Barbie just one more time. At now 27 and 28 you would think that one of them would have given us a reason to fill up a cart with toys again but no........not yet anyway.

Digging through the old family photos sure makes me miss being a mom.

Happy Birthday!

Today's the 31st birthday of this previously totally rad dude. He's still pretty cool in spite of the fact he grew up to be a lawyer.

Note to family: Yes, that is a Christmas tree. Yes, he is smiling. Amazing, yes? I can only figure that it is Granny's house and she had threatened him with his life to look happy. She could do that.

Rainbow Batts

The Clun Forest batt factory is in full gear when the weather permits. Learning my lesson from the ugly sock yarn I spun all last winter, I am spinning ALL the colors separately this time around. I am also going to weigh these out before spinning so I can get 2 mittens that look the same. Yeah, right

Quelle Charmante Surprise!

It wasn't that long ago that I was ranting about how mean the folks over on Ravelry can be.



Today's post is about how nice they can be.



I sent some of my old Phentex stash off to a good home and look what I got in return.



Not only is it the cutest little bag in the world-that is totally made of vintage materials-but it also smelled like heaven.

Pinney: Merci pour ta gentillese. Ca me fait très plaisir!

Breaking News!!!

I am breaking into today's boring post to relay some exciting (at least to me) news.

Thanks to a early morning tweet, I was alerted to the fact that Knit Picks is now carrying fiber and fiber related tools! They have 3 different types of white Merino plus Corriedale in colors all for their usual great prices. I ordered one of everything plus their Turkish spindle. Don't worry dear family. I stayed on budget. The total was under my $50 gift certificate! Woo hoo!

Second Sock Syndrome

One Fishgyle done. One to go. I am not particularly proud of this bit of Fair Isle. It is a bit wonky in places due to my going back in forth between double points and the magic loop. I kept trying to find a comfortable way to get these done but truth be told they are NOT a fun knit. Way too fiddly. And horror upon horrors, I just realized I have no idea where I started from with the ball of self striping yarn so now I have to figure out how to make the other sock match. I HATE when I do that.

A Lot of Socks

Last summer's mystery wool batts yielded 5 crazy mismatched socks. I just finished the last of the bunch. I still have to weave in the loose ends but this project is declared officially OVER and I haven't been able to say that about anything for a very long while now.