Knitter in Progress

Here's the minimal progress I made this last weekend on my Provence Sampler for the HAEDless SAL. Since I have allowed myself to come to terms with the fact that is piece is off center, I am actually enjoying stitching on it. I love working with just one color--it goes so quickly. But I won't be giving up my big a$$ projects in the near future, no worries there, the single color ones are a good break though.

A tradition over at the HAED BB is the Fairy Day SAL and this year the SAL is a long one because Fairy Day falls on a Tuesday. I usually cannot participate in the SAL because I am not stitching on a fairy piece BUT that is about to change. Today, I'll be starting a new piece containing not one but two fairies. Right now there is nothing to see but there will be by next week :)

I think most of the Denver area knitting community will be knitting at Estes, but I will be here with the kiddos(I'm trying to save money for some Opal Harry Potter yarn in the fall). I'll do my part and either knit at the park or the pool or both :) Enjoy the day!!

The last time I was in Disney World--10 years ago--the Disney pin trading thing was in its infancy. Well that is no more. Before we left we bought the kiddos each a lanyard and some starter pins(duplicates of the same pin so you have something to trade). I was excited for them because the Disney staff has to trade with you if they don't currently have your pin on their lanyard AND if you find a staff member with a green lanyard, they are only allowed to trade with children. Diva and Rage traded some pins and purchased a couple to remind them of some of their favorite things in Disney--and believe it or not Rage did have one or two things he liked that actually had pins. Their park ID cards also fit into the lanyard; it makes for a great piece of memorabilia definitely unique to every trip. Diva will probably keep her lanyard on her American Girl doll and Rage will be keeping his on one of his build a bear bears(along with his mouse ears). Now I had no intention of getting swept int...

We just got back from 6 days in Walt Disney World. Fun was had by almost all in our family. DH and I have always loved Disney so we knew we'd have a great time. It was the kiddos first time and we were both excited to share one of our favorite places with them. Diva LOVED it. Loved everything about it. She got scared on Expedition Everest, The Tower of Terror, and Test Track but she soldiered on and didn't complain. A majority of her time there was spent laughing and staring in wonder at everything. Rage, on the other hand, dear Rage. The stories of travel with this child will become legend--at least in our family. He loved both airports and flights. He loved both bus rides--to and from the resort. He loved the buses, boats, and monorails that take you around the Disney property. He loved the hotel and the pool. But. . .and you know a but is coming. He hated the parks--all. . .four. . .parks. And I am not talking about just being a little upset. I'm talking about a child wh...

May Wrap Up: Knitting: **at least 5 Barn Raising squares-- FINISHED 10--yeah, that's right, T-E-N **Rage's Lapis socks-- Finished one sock and got through the heel of the other Stitching: **QS Swimming with Dolphins SAL weekend(9-12)-- DONE **Provence Sampler SAL weekend(16-19)-- DONE Reading: **finish two books-- DONE, I read 3 actually, both new books by Kresley Cole and Harlot's latest June Goals: Knitting: **I need to finish 7 Skully Barn Raising Squares **I'm only working on stuff that is already on the needles this month, no new cast-ons Stitching: **QS Swimming with Dolphins SAL Weekend(13-16) **Provence Sampler SAL(20-23) **TT K(on at least 2 QS Wednesdays) Reading: **Finish one book(hopefully more)--and that one book will be Blood Noir by Laurell Hamilton which I am going to get as soon as I post this.

It's the monthly update on the Barn Raising Quilts. I got through 10 squares this month. I finished my experiment on exactly how many squares you can get out of one skein of lightweight Socks That Rock. The answer is almost six--as in I was one row and the bind off away from six. If you were really frugal with your ends, you could probably get six. I needed to know this because I have to make a bunch of squares to exchange with members of the knitting crew. I decided to use STR in the Rook-y colorway and of course I could not leave it at that. I added beads to mine in the shape of, you guessed it, a skull. So June will be the Skully square month as I have to have at least nine of them done by the end of the month. Current Square Tally-- STR quilt square stats(10/42): Algae(traded 1 Lucy for it)--1 Lucy(lightweight)--5 Tres Campy(Hello Yarn)--1 Fire on the Mountain(lightweight)--1 Nodding Violet(mediumweight)--1 Lapis(lightweight)--1 STR skully squares(2/9): Rook-y(lightweight)--2 *...