Bling for Your Knitting

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Sunday Inspiration is back!! 

I love Fiber more then anything and it is one of the main reasons I love to knit. Watching the color and feeling the softness as I create somethig out of string is heaven for me. One thing that takes the whole thing up a notch is markers. I love using them and looking at them as I come to them every few stitches.  

Here are some of the many Stitch Markers from the wonderful creative people over on Etsy.com. I have a couple of these but most of them are on my wish list. 

I do have to say that the last one listed by "Miss Purl" are my favorites so far. They don't catch on the yarn anywhere and mine are a lovely shade of green and they sparkle. Need I say more?

Miss Purl just got back from Stitches West (feb. 2012) so her inventory is a little low. But I am sure she will have more in the next month. 

'Bling for Your Knitting' by flmarvel

Bejewel your knitting and you will enjoy the process even more!!

OUTLANDER Gabaldon Book Stit... maryfaithpeace $75.00	Stitch Markers Set (12 piece... magic $31.00	Custom soldered knitting sti... DesignsbyTami $30.00
Knitty Fish Stitch Markers ... jennybuttons $35.00	Stitch Marker Box Set - Star... JudySwag $29.99	YARN SNOB - Handmade Handsta... knitcessories $35.00
Kitchener Stitch - Stitch Ma... BluOnyxExpress... $30.00	Precious Metal and Pearls wi... jeanettejed $23.00	Pineapple Lace: The Crochete... thesexyknitter $22.00
Woolly Sheep Stitch Markers ... weeones $20.00	Circular SnagFree Row Counte... jeanettejed $20.00	Aqua Petrol Designer Stitch ... blingyourstrin... $20.00
Sheep in Pink knitcubby $14.99	Ringlets - Brown & Gold knitifacts $14.00	Bits of Blue Double Duty Sti... MSotherdenArtG... $13.00
Purle Markers and The Miss i... MissPurl $14.00

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

Friday's Queue

This weeks peak into the queue is from the current Twist Collective. I already blogged about how great this is issue is here. I included this pattern in the post. Since I am so in love with it I want to really talk about it. 

Sparrow by Pam Allan 

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FO's

I have been finishing projects. Yeah!!!

Here they are:

 Cloche Enough/Chemo Hat by Debbie Anne & Susan Ann

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"Friday's Queue"

In an effort to blog more regularly I am going to assign some consistant subjects for one or two days a week. Fridays are going to be "Friday's Queue". I am going to look through my queue on Ravelry, which at the moment is 14 pages and 400 items strong, and pick a pattern to talk about. I think that will give me many wonderful blog entries, right?

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Slogging Through the Sweater

I have a project that I am having to push through right now. You know those longer projects that are exciting to start. Fun to figure out. But then about half way through you hit the wall. The project goes into a very simple pattern repeat, 5x1 rib pattern, that seems to go on forever! 

Agatha is that project right now,

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Lorna Miser and Red Barn Yarns!!

Friday April 29

Our last event was almost a month ago. Time sure does fly. We had Catherine Petitti and her amazing handpainted yarns, Red Barn Yarns, here for a trunk show.

We where busy the whole time she was here and every one loved her yarns. 

If you missed it here is a video of what went down.

Friday April 29 will be our next Event. 

Lorna Miser, founder of Lorna's Laces, is coming to our Arcadia location to sign her books and then lead us in a workshop about how to get the most out of those beautiful hand painted and varigated yarns. 

Can you think of a more perfect day? Playing with beautiful yarns and learning from one of the first women to do hand dyed yarns?

I think not. 

For full information go to the Lorna Miser page 

Email me right away if you want to attend the workshop

Knitty's up Too!!

 Don't you just love the beginning of a season? We get a change in our surrounding, cold weather gets warmer, hot weather get cooler. We also get a change in our knitting. With the arival of spring there are new patterns to keep us from actually knitting. Lighter weight yarns and projects are what we are looking for. I also tend to pick up crocheting in the summer months. 

Right on cue, the spring/summer knitty.com is up. 

I have to say I think it is a bit lite on projects I will want to knit. But there are some nice options to concider.

The most intriguing pattern is sporting a new knitting technique! Even my DH asked if there really could be a new way to knit something. 

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