Hi everyone! Happy Friday! The hockey season is NOW officially started for me, as my two favorite teams played their first games and won. WOO HOO! Nice start to a long season. :)
Nothing new finished for me today. I'm still marching forward on my sock. My goal is to finish one before the fiber festival next weekend. I'd love to have it for a sample, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
This weekend is a work weekend for me, but I do get to do one fun thing. One of my best friends, Elizabeth, invited my husband and I sailing with her husband. I can't wait. It should be awesome.
That's it for me today. I hope you all have a great weekend with beautiful weather!
Hi everyone. I hope all is well with you. We're doing pretty good over at my house this week, as my husband has found a new job that he is super excited about. I haven't talked about it, but the studio he worked for closed a few months ago and he's been out of work. In his line of work, that's not unusual, but it will doesn't help matters. In the end it worked out great and I'm so excited for him.
Before I get to WIPW, I have a few things to comment on besides the new job. First, next week I'll be scheduling WIPW and FO Friday (probably) in advance. I'm extremely busy getting ready for the Vista Fiber Fiesta which is October 12-13, and we're taking a few days off to celebrate the new job.
Hockey season is back. For those who have followed me the past few years understand how excited this makes me. Life just doesn't feel right when it isn't hockey season. Now all is perfect again with the start of the NHL season last night and my LA Kings playing their first game tomorrow. I can't wait.
How many of you watched Broadchurch? I don't want to give spoilers, but HOLY SMOKES. We just finished the series and my mind if blown. I suspected who it was for a fleeting moment several episodes back and then completely dismissed it right away. I'm so glad it wasn't in left field, but then again, wow. I also have to admit that I balled at the last episode. Heart wrenching. That has to be one of the best programs on television today and I hope the series 2 is just as good (I also hope that David Tennant is back). I'd love to go back and watch it all again, as now that I think back, I see signs of who the killer was. Crazy.
Okay, now on to WIPW...
I'm making the Harvest Dew socks, a pattern I've had in my queue on Ravelry for AGES. In fact, I think it may be one of the first knitted sock patterns I added to my queue way back when. I've always wanted to make it but never found the proper yarn until now. I'm using my October '13 colorway for Candy Skein, Candy Corn. The pattern is perfect, as the "dew drops" kinda look like candy corn, don't they? I'm so in love with these and they're flying by. I started them Sunday night during World War Z (which we thought was pretty good!) and then knit a little on Monday night at my knitting group and then a few minutes during the hockey game today. I'm about half way (or a little more) don't with the leg.
Here is what Candy Corn looks like in the skein! Awesome, right?
That's it for me today. I hope you all have a great rest of the week!
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Hi everyone. Happy Friday. I hope all is well with you today. Unfortunately, nothing new to share. I did finish the witch cross stitch square I showed Wednesday, but had to move the cloth in the frame so now it isn't in a space to take a picture of it.
Work is keeping me busy, as mentioned, as I'm working toward the Vista Fiber Fiesta October 12-13. It's amazing to dye more colors than just purple. I still love purple, but after a month and a half of it, let me tell you, it's magic to my eyes to see multiple colors.
That's it for me. I hope you all have a great weekend. We're going to be hanging out at home, so hopefully I can find the knitting bug and have him bite me again.
Hi everyone. Happy hump day. I hope all is well. Thank you for all the awesome comments regarding Yarnbox. I'll have more posts about it coming soon (I really promise despite being a huge blog flake lately).
I have been in a knitting funk lately, which isn't good since I have to finish a sample shawl for my fiber show coming up the 12-13th of October. I just can't find my mojo and I'm sure breaking my needle last time I worked on it didn't help. I've been considering starting a fun whatever project that will fly off the needles like fingerless gloves or a hat, but then realize, if I spend all my time doing that, I REALLY won't have enough time to finish the shawl. Sigh.
Instead I've been having a GREAT time with the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's Halloween Sampler. It's pretty much what I've been working on every night. Isn't it adorable so far? I've done the first three squares and then am working backward on the 2nd row because I don't want to move my Q snap frame until I have to. It will spell Halloween when it is finished. And yes, that IS a Halloween themed needle minder!
Speaking of Halloween, Friday I will be releasing the October '13 colorway of the month. I am SOOO excited for it, that I couldn't help myself. For a sneak peek, head over to my Instagram account (@candyskein). Not only did I post a glimpse (or two) of the new color, I'm also taking preorders that will ship Friday morning!
That's it for me today. Have a great rest of your week.
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Happy Friday! Today is a special FO for me, as I finally get to talk about my (finished) secret project I've been working on the past few months. Some of you may have seen the news a few days ago on either the Candy Skein Addicts Ravelry group, or my Instagram account, but thought I would share it here, especially since I plan to have more posts about the process.
I am so so so excited this day is finally here. Candy Skein Savory Fingering, which
is new to the CS line, is in the September shipment of Yarnbox.
For those of you who haven’t heard of Yarnbox, they are a
subscription box that is delivered each month (they have several
different subscription plans available). You don’t know what yarn you
will be receiving each box, so it’s super exciting! Each box contains
three skeins of the yarn, patterns, candy and sometimes even coupons for
the yarn in which you received.
Here is a picture of the yarn that you could receive in your box. One
the left is new colorway, Black Currant, and on the right is Grape
Soda.
Savory Fingering will be available soon on the website in these
colors, along with tons of the usual suspects. It is a 80% merino
superwash/20% nylon that has an unbelievable bounce and ply. In my
opinion the ply is very close to MadTosh Sock. Each skein is 400 yards
and will be $22 each.
I just wanted to thank you all for being so patient over the past few
months while I had to stay quiet about this, and also for understanding
when the shipments were a little slower, the site not fully stocked,
the monthly colorway a little late this month and mostly my posts being speratic here, while I tried to get the
Yarnbox order out the door.
So thank you! To everyone here for being so kind with lovely comments and still hanging in there despite not giving you much.
As mentioned earlier, I will have more posts soon about the process of dyeing a VERY large amount of yarn in a very small time.
