You may have noticed this

I don’t have much to say about it, except that this is the caliber that all my stuff should be.  I have a lot to do.

Now that I am famous and important however, I need to really address where I am going with this site, and my “career” (snort).  Ahem, really I started this with the idea that I would really like a place to put all my blog posts in one place.  Then it evolved into the possibility of making a small amount of money on the side, while staying home.  Now I seem to be contemplating the notion of professional author.

So I have that article published, and another from a smaller magazine accepted, (I’ll let y’all know when it publishes).  I am considering submitting to Spin Off and some other places.  So anyhow, you might be seeing my name pop up in the near future.

I also started a Tam from the pattern in the new Knitty.  I love these, and wanted to make one for each of the girls for Christmas.  So I am making Tam C for a test tam, and then of course I’ll veer off on my own and do it entirely different lol.  I got poor grades for “following instructions” in Kindergarten, and nothing much has changed since then.  I am forcing myself to do it just like the pattern says for this first hat, because for one thing, I need to learn how to do it first, and 2 I am kind of enjoying just following along and not thinking about it too much.

I also have another scarf stitch pattern I have been tinkering with.  It is a combination of chevron with the dropped stitch to make a really interesting effect.  I got the idea from looking at a seafoam pattern.  Anyhow this is what it looks like, and it knits pretty fast, so i can post that chart for you soon, if anyone is interested in trying it out.

It looks much better blocked, obviously.  I ripped this all out, because I was doing a space dye experiment on it, to make the dropped stitches very light blue, with dark blue for the other areas.  It didn’t work for me, but I used that yarn for something else anyway.  Still, the patten is quite pretty, or so I think.

So I am taking a break from the gloves to knit this hat (which is going to a local family) and then I will be spinning some beautiful merino that I have literally been sitting on for over a year to find just the right project for….I love the colors so much (it is what I used for the beaded yarn tutorial) that I want to try and make a similar colorway before I use it up.  So I will spin that up for the color section of the girls hats.  YEAH!  I also dyed some dark mulberry roving, and a batch of St Bernadette, because I got some orders.  I am trying darker colors, and looking for some new colorways.  You guys got any color combos you really like?

As always, remember that each month, a comment is chosen for a nice prize.  I am not posting this last packets contents, until she gets it, but it was some really fun stuff.  So COMMENT for crying out loud!!!