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Hi everyone! I hope you're having a good week so far. It's crazy busy in my neck of the woods as we have the last push before handing over the keys to our condo to the renters. I'm so excited to get that monkey off my back of stressing about renting it.

I had a great time at Stitches and I'll write more about that later, as I'll just focus on WIPW. On the trip I got a chance to knit in the car, but not much knitting other than that believe it or not. I thought we'd have tons of time to just sit around and knit but we didn't have a moment to spare! Granted, we were only there for one full day and two days of driving.

I was happy to have an easy project like my Color Affection shawl to work in the car. The only hard part was trying to juggle three balls of yarn on my knees! As you can see, I'm working my way across the shawl with the stripes. I have a bit more to go, but I definitely made huge progress. I can't wait to bind off to really see it. It's so squished on the needles/cable, it's hard to tell what it really looks like.

This is a new project, as I was dying to cast on with new Stitches yarn and needles. It's Cephalopod Skinny Bugga! yarn in colorway Blue Ringed Octopus. I'm using the new Knitter's Pride Karbonz needles in size US 1.5 (2.5mm). I'll do a review of the needles soon! Anyway, I'm going to make the Hourglass Eyelet Socks which is a free pattern on Ravelry.

That's it for me today! I'll have more posts this week about my trip and hopefully the needles! Have a great rest of your week.


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Happy Friday everyone! No project from me today as I'm typing this on Wednesday before I leave for Stitches. I hope you all have a great weekend! I can't wait to tell you about Stitches West when I return.

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Work in Progress Wednesday 132

Hi everyone! It's been a CRAZY week over here, let me tell you! We rented our townhouse, so the past week has been all about showing the place, paperwork, Home Depot and plumbers. Add to that a lot of orders to fill and my undyed yarn got stuck in customs. Oh yeah, and I'm leaving for Stitches in a few days! I'm just a little stressed. ;)

Speaking of Stitches, a few of you have asked if I'll have a booth there. Not this year, I'm just going with a group of my best friends. I thought it was best to experience Stitches first, before jumping straight into the deep end. I hope to be a vendor next year. :) If you'd like to follow my group's trip up to Stitches, you can follow me on Instagram at @candyskein. I'll try to take lots of pictures for everyone.

My WIP isn't too exciting to say the least. The Color Affection shawl is growing, slowly but surely but it doesn't really look much different to be honest, so I'm not going to bother with a picture. I'm still enjoying the yarn/pattern and will at some point probably make another one. It will be great car knitting while we drive the 8 hours to Santa Clara.

That's it for me today. Sorry to keep it so short. Have a great rest of your week.

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FO Friday 125

Happy Friday! I hope you had a fabulous and fun Valentine's Day if you celebrate. We rented a Redbox movie (they sent us a coupon for a free rental!), had steak, potatoes and wine. It was a nice quiet evening.

I wanted to thank everyone who used the coupon code I offered yesterday for the holiday! You should be receiving an email from me (if you haven't already) regarding your order's shipment or timeline for shipping.

Today I have more cross stitch to share! As far as my knitting, I'm still trucking on my Color Affection shawl, but it's the only knitting project I'm working on right now since I have a time limit on it. I don't think I'll finish before Stitches, but I'll bring it on the trip and maybe I'll finish it there!

So, for my FO today, I have February's block for the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's Woodland Sampler. I love this little guy!!! I finished March's frame and now just need to wait for the new month. :)

That's it for me today. Have a great weekend.

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Candy Skein Sweet Fingering is here and a Coupon!

Hi everyone! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!! As a little treat, I'm offering a 15% off coupon on your total order for the rest of today (until tomorrow morning when I wake up and can deactivate the code really). Just enter the code VALENTINESWEETS at checkout to receive the discount!

If you didn't need any more incentive, I've released a new to Candy Skein base, Sweet Fingering! It's the yarn I've been teasing you about when showing pictures of my Color Affection shawl! The shawl is the first time I've used the yarn and I have to say, I love it! The twist is a bit like Delicious fingering, if you've used that at all. It's a little splitty at cast on, but after that it's amazing. It slides along the needles just right and has an amazing shine to it.

From Candyskein.com:

Sweet fingering practically glows in the sunlight with the gorgeous marriage of soft merino superwash and luscious silk. This yarn is great for every project, including socks, scarves, shawls, hats, mittens and even sweaters. You won’t believe how sweet this yarn is until you try it.

 

Here are the colors I've currently dyed Sweet Fingering in, but a few are already sold out! This yarn is going fast. (Click the picture to enlarge it)

You can purchase Sweet fingering, and all Candy Skein yarn at Candyskein.com!


Have a great night everyone!http://www.candyskein.com/

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Hi everyone. I hope you had a great weekend and are having a good week as well. Also, a happy early Valentine's day! We took it easy this weekend, enjoying a nice dinner Saturday night with a Groupon to a restaurant we'd never been to. I love finding new places to eat, especially in our new neighborhood! We also did the not fun task of going through a bunch of boxes from our move that have been hanging out in our garage. Overall it was nice to just be home. I didn't get too much knitting done, but I did start the 3rd color of my Color Affection shawl.

Once I added the first few rows of the orange, I wasn't quite sure about it. Now that I'm further into it, I'm loving it. I was hoping to have it done by Stitches West, but considering we leave a week from Thursday, I'm not sure that's going to happen unless I find a LOT of knitting time. I really do love this pattern, as it's mindless, but not too boring, at least for me, due to the stripes/color change. I'd definitely consider making another one, but next time I might have it on a longer cable as It's hard to spread it out and really see the progress I'm making! I wanted mine really big (more deep than wide), so I followed someone's instructions on Ravelry to do this. I'll give more details later. :) I hope it comes out huge, as I want it to be more of a house wrap/comfy couch shawl more than anything. We'll see.

That's it for me today. I will be posting Sweet fingering for the first time (what my Color Affection shawl is made from) on the site/blog this Thursday, so be sure to check back then for that. I hope you have a great rest of your week and I'll see you again for FO Friday as well!


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FO Friday 124

Happy Friday! I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. I've been busy working on my Color Affection shawl and Woodland Sampler cross stitch and working away in the Candy Skein studios. I don't have too much to share today, unfortunately, but I did finish the January cross stitch! This pattern is part of the Woodland Sampler by the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery!

Isn't it adorable!?! Again, this is my first time using linen, and though it takes more concentration, it looks awesome! This is also 28 count which is a very very small weave. The lines might look crooked in the picture, but they are straight. The linen is being pulled oddly in my snap frame. :)


I hope everyone had a great weekend! Happy crafting.

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Work in Progress Wednesday 130

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and are having a great week as well. I had a good time at TNNA. I actually learned a lot and it was great to see so much yarn being displayed so beautifully. It was nice to just relax and not have to worry about what to buy, as it wasn't a marketplace. It was very calm, which was what I was hoping, especially since I have Stitches West coming up soon.

This probably looks the same to you, but it actually isn't! I hope to get a better picture soon, but I worked on it all night, trying to get to the third color but I came up short. I'm only 3 rows (1 1/2 stripes) away from adding the 3rd color! I'm so so excited to get to the main, large section of this shawl. It's already getting really big, as you can tell from it bunched on the needles. The one thing I'm NOT looking forward to is juggling three balls of yarn at the same time. This is starting to turn into a project that isn't very easy to carry around. Luckily, I'm home for the rest of the week, as I've already had my two knitting groups this week.


That's it for me today. I'll see you Friday!

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FO Friday 123

Hi everyone. Happy Friday and welcome to February! This weekend I'm heading to TNNA on Sunday, and I can't wait! If you'll be there, let me know in the comments and maybe we can meet up and say hi.

Today I'm sooo excited to share with you my finished Kawaii Winter Sampler by the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery.

Here it is finished and up close. Cute, right?

And we actually had a frame around the house that works with it. I think we might spray paint the frame a dark green or red, but I wanted to see what it looked like framed first!

Awesome, right!?

I hope you all have a great weekend!

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