Happy Birthday To Me!


Colored Denise Interchangeable needles from knittinghelp.com arrived today. I LOVE them.

I've thought about getting interchangeable needles for a long time but I was really thinking I'd end up with a bamboo set. Both bamboo sets I know of are $100 or so, with fewer needles, but I really didn't think I could enjoy knitting on these Denise needles, which are resin. The plastic needles I've used in the past were awful.

One of the wonderful ladies from my knitting group let me knit on some of her Denise a few weeks ago and I HAD to have them. Lucky for me my birthday was coming up so my DH bought them for me. I asked for the colored ones, which are more expensive, but worth it, I think. I'll hopefully have these for a lifetime, so I might as well have some that make me happy.

My birthday isn't for 2 weeks, but I get my present early. Yay!

Don't Drink the Kool-Aid

It's been so long since I've posted!
Here's something I've been working on. It's a soaker sack for an infant that I dip dyed:

I threaded a skewer through the top of the soaker


This is a pot with a packet of grape kool aid, a glug of vinegar, and about 2 inches of warm water. I used a spare needle to get the soaker to stay up, and put the pot on the stove on low. Every so often I unrolled a bit more of the soaker into the water.



And here's the result!

I'm pretty happy with it :)

Happiness is...

Getting new sock yarn in the mail...




I *love* them. Can't wait to knit with them. The more socks I make myself, the more I despise my other lesser socks. I am resisting the urge to put all other knitting aside to knit these into socks immediately. But there's a baby with no booties who really really does need hers more than me. And a boy who needs his sweater. Really.

Odds and ends


A sleeve...
Spike ripped the neck of his sweater, I'll have to rip that off and put in some new ribbing.
Rob's scarf, about half way done...
and BEHOLD!
The long lost pattern to the ladybug sweater, found underneath a chest in my bedroom. Now I have no excuse for not finishing it.