Final Post of 2006

Ah the last post of the year. It's hard to believe that the year is almost done. For me 2006 was a year full of ups and downs...smooth roads and bumpy. Some of them roads were pretty washboard like. But the ups and downs finally level out and the roads get smooth again. I think the biggest thing for me in 2006 was the birth of my youngest daughter Bree. Hopefully 2007 will be a little more smoother. Hope everyone has a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Socktopia

Socktopia kicked off today, but I don't think I'm going to be able to work on a themed sock this month. I was hoping to get done with my socks before it kicked off but it just didn't work out that way. I'm going to be starting a pair for my sis as soon as I get done with my socks. The good news is that I can still enter them in the potluck drawing. I'm going to do something for Feb though. I love sock knitting....just wished I had more time.

My Stash Splurge

I thought I would type a little about the yarns picked up today as I sit here in the peace and quiet, enjoying my chicken salad. Kaity and Shawn are watching Over the Hedge and Bree is sleeping the sleep only babies seem to be able to do.

I picked up some Sugar N' Cream for my dishcloth KAL. Some of these are colors I can't get easily at my local Wal-Mart and I'd hate to have to drive 60 miles for a few $1.70 skeins of yarn.

I also have a lovely skein of Opal sock yarn that I snagged off of eBay for the lovely price of $9.99. I should see that here in the next week or so. Can't beat that price. There is only one place in my area that carries Opal sock yarns that I know of and they charge $19 for the regular sock yarn and $24.50 for the 6-ply so it's cheaper for me to buy through eBay most of the time even when you figure in the shipping. I still want to go in and check it out because the owner said she carries a wide variety of Opal colors and I want to see what other types of yarn she has.

I picked up 2 different skeins of Online sock yarn for myself and my sis bought one for me to make her a pair of socks. That lovely green pull skein was a lovely hank of Cherry Tree Hill in beautiful greens and blues. I can't wait to make a pair out of that. The pretty earth tone yarn on the far right is Austermann Step yarn for a pair of socks for my Mom. I can't wait to knit with this yarn. Everyone says it leaves your hands feeling nice. I picked up a skein of the Lion Brand Magic stripes in the purples and blues....it was on sale so I figure What The Hay I'll give it a try. Couldn't leave Craft Warehouse with just a few skeins of Sugar N' Cream. I also got a little tin that has a lotion bar in it. You just take the bar, rub it in your hands, and then put it back in the tin. It has lanolin, bees wax and a few other things. It's call The Bee Bar and you can buy it online through their site. It feels kinda heavy and greasy when you put it on but within a minute or two in warms up and sinks into the skin. My hands feel great. I've definitely added their site to my favs.

I've found my favorite place to drool, pet, and buy yarn. I finally made it down to Meridian to check out The Yarn Shoppe. Let me just say "Oh Me, Oh My". The owner has done such a wonderful job. Everything is set up so beautifully and they carry lots of different types of sock yarn. The ladies I met today were so nice and friendly. Plus to top it all off they have a buyers incentive program. YIPPY, Squeal, Squeal, Giggle Giggle!!! As to Knit Wits, well as my Mama always told me "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all", and we'll leave it at that....LOL.

I'm not sure if my sis completely understands the obsession but she went with the flow and checked out the yarn and oohhed over the soft ones, the pretty colors, etc. Plus she found some sock yarn that she likes and bought some for me to make her a pair. I'm not sure I could get her to convert to knitting, she likes her video games too much...lol. So I think it will still be just my mom and I knitting in the family. Although I think I'm going to teach Kaity how to knit. I've got some size 10 Bamboo needles that she can use to learn on. She's been showing an interest in learning....wants to do what Mommy is doing. I'm sure I'll post on that when I start that one....should be fun....lol.

And I'm Off

I off for an excited fun filled day in Boise....WooHoo. More will be posted this evening after the kids are sound asleep in bed. I'm curious to see how well Bree does without me here....She doesn't like bottles but she's also old enough to eat baby cereal and seems to love it.

Busy Weekend

With Costco shopping now outta the way, I can go shopping for myself. A day out minus the kids will be nice. Somewhere in this busy weekend I still need to manage a quick trip to the commissary to pick up little odds and ends. So much to do, so little time to get it done. I did manage to get the gusset decrease and a bit of the foot done on the way up to and back from Costco. I have about 4 inches left in the foot before I can start the toe decrease and get the sock on my foot with it's mate.

I'll definitely be posting about my shopping trip some time tomorrow evening.

Finished Snowflake

I finished the snowflake tonight. The pics I took of it are before it was blocked so it the points at the end aren't there, they're folded in. Plus I managed to work on my socks for a little bit. I finished the heel flap, heel turn and got the picked up the gusset stitches. If all goes well I'll get the gusset decreases and a good chunk of the foot done tomorrow.

When these socks are done I'm going to be starting on my Sock KALs and get some socks made for Bree. I've already got the yarn and pattern for my SocknitterSAM KAL. I'm also part of Socktopia 2007, which is suppose to kick off 31 Dec. and 6 Socks KAL.

We have to head up to Costco's for our monthly shopping but can't take off till Shawn gets off work. He has to go in for a few hours tomorrow. It was only suppose to be for 1 hour but somehow it's managed to turn into 4 hours. Hopefully that's all it ends up being. I'm not going to count on it though.

Snowflake

I decided to take a break from sock knitting tonight and instead worked on the Snowflake pattern from Berroco I thought it was pretty and wanted to give it a try. Of course I don't have any white yarn so my snowflake is orange....lol and to top it all off the center of the snowflake may end up being a different color because I don't think I have enough orange to finish up....lol. Oh well, it doesn't matter since this was just an experiment to see how the pattern turned out. I have noticed a few minor errors in the pattern but nothing that most knitters wouldn't be able to pick up on as they were knitting. I'm a fairly new knitter and I caught them. I'll take a pic of it after I get it done. If I like it I may make more. My mom had the idea of maybe putting them together to make a throw or something. I think that would be pretty.