Trip Knitting

I love a good road trip. We got suckered into going to a wedding that's about 20 hours drive away and my sweet man just can't take off too much time from work so we're driving down, we'll be there for an evening and a day then the two day trip back. I'm slightly worried that the Jeep won't make it. Also we don't know anyone except my husband's parents. So I'm looking at the trip as 40 hours of sitting still family time.
My current knitting project is winding down. Here's the first few inches of ruffles. Can you see how cramped the stitches are on my super long needle? It's going to take some time but nothing like 40 hours. So now I have to plan what to knit on the trip....

Welcome to SHERWOOD Merry People

New colorway: Sherwood. Picture a deep, thick forest hiding ever so many Merry Men (and Women) dressed in bright, festive garb. So more like the old Errol Flynn movie with song, dance and feasting and not so much like anything resembling reality. I will start by listing only sock yarn, but there's light worsted weight superwash merino on the way. I'm also dyeing lots of Secret today. It's a springish colorway, but I want more pink in my etsy shop.

My Weight in YARN or life lessons

Oh
my
goodness.
This huge pile 'o yarn was sitting in my garage for a week while I bit my nails and pulled out hair and stared at the ceiling from 3 am to 5 am. I love my Metro-sexual UPS man (think tanned, perfect hair, gleaming white teeth and impeccable grooming- sorry, it’s hard not to digress here). But it was his day off. So the other UPS guy cleverly hides over 100 pounds of yarn in my garage with a bunch of other almost identical boxes on their (long delayed) way to Goodwill. This pile is behind the broken down car and several generations of bikes and power tools that I don't even know the purpose of. Sheesh. You know that saying about don’t put your eggs all in one basket. Well these cleverly hidden boxes represent all my business eggs and about 400 eggs from the family pot. Do I even need to say it? LESSON LEARNED!!!
As usual I have my glorious husband to thank for all this. He made the calls and did the research, all while working on a troublesome and important project at his own (paying) job! Oh, he’s going to be feeling the love from this one! I am so fiercely in love with that man!!! (Hon,If you are reading this I am way more into you than the UPS man and I’m glad you don’t look like him cause I want you all to myself!)
I have much good news that has been clouded by waiting for the egg basket delivery of my weight in yarn. I have attached myself to a cool woman who is doing some sample knitting and development for me. She seems to be gifted in many of the traits I lack as a yarn business person. So big Hurray there. Etsy continues to be a beautiful place for me. I’ve done some awesome trades. These earrings from camelliageorge for my mom (hit of the party) for this yarn. She gave me a free reign so I developed a brand spanking new skein design that had been bouncing about in my brain.

New knitting

Check out my lace moebius! If you haven't seen Cat Bordhi's Magical Knitting here it is. I haven't done any real projects until now, but I have done a few practice moebii to get familiar with her technique. Now I'm winging it. The concept is that it will have black in the middle and shade to bone white for all the outer ruffley edge.
The problem is that my winter stuff is brown and it's grey. My summer stuff is grey and I got brown sandals. Why do I even wear mostly grey and brown? I think the plan has been (for like 10 years) that I will wear neutral for a background and use my colorful, fun stuff to liven things up. Hmmm. I need to get knitting. I'm browned out.

Hello Boo-ty Swappers!

I noticed that lots of you are doing secret pal swaps and the like with surveys. I don't have any survey here but I will tell you a bit about myself. I'm new to blogging and this is my first swap. I hope to make some fun friends in this awesome online knitting community. I learned to knit a couple years ago after taking a spinning class. I wanted to use some of the funness I was making. I have been around knitting and fiber art my whole life so I took to it fairly well. I've taken some classes with Debbie New and Lucy Neatby. Both are awesome teachers. I learned a lot of cool interesting things and know some advanced techniques but am still lacking on lots of basics so my stuff is kinda odd. I knit with natural fibers on whatever needles come my way.
Mostly I dye stuff. I have a small shop on etsy where I sell mostly sock yarn and roving. I am married to my perfect mate and have a son (10) and daughter (4). My favorite food is potato whatever, favorite drink coffee and favorite smell is baking bread. Halloween is and always has been my favorite holiday/season. I love the crisp, fragrant air and crispy, colorful leaves. I love to dress up and pretend and getting candy for doing so is sweet!

No Motor

I have no motor. It is hard to be a skein artist when you can't skein anything. It's had me a bit down. And tired. Like I lost my motor too. But enough of the wanh, wanh, wanh. New motor is on its way and I've had a few mellow days (almost unheard of for me). I'm looking forward to a few big production days soon.
I'm having super fun creating new colorways. I posted a new red colorway that's still a work in progress. I can't quite figure out what it needs. I've got one in the works called Sherwood: dark greens with pops of brighter colors. The second one is for my Boo-ty swap and is seco-info (hint: her favorite color is blue)!
I just hit my next big goal on my etsy shop. I think I'm gaining a balance between having a life and having a business. A major step forward will be the end of football.
This is my little girl bossing the big boys around. The other moms watching practice think it's cute and funny. She's really amazing and operates on maximum all day long. Parenting a child on overdrive is never dull! Tomorrow my husband is taking the day off to spend with me. After months of practice and games, it's my turn for a whole day. We are going to a movie in the theatre (if there's anything out, I don't even know) and my dad is treating us to lunch at one of our favorite resturants. I'm going to eat upscale chocolate covered raisins and hang with my sweetie. I am powerfully in love with that man!

I really do knit

I knit. I really do. Just not much and not well. I knit interesting stuff tho. My husband wanted a stocking cap that reaches all the way to his waist. Crazy, eh? But here it is. It actually hits the ground when our daugher wears it. The colors are his choice, mostly our school colors with a manly background. The patterning is my design. I wanted the stripes to vary in length but stay within a certain size throughout the lenght of the hat. It was fun to do for a long pointy object. I don't get to use nearly that amount of math on a batch of sock yarn. Can you tell from the photo that I only worked in one end so far?