Leaping on the Lizard wagon

After watching Anna steadily make her version of the Lizard Ridge Afghan, I am hooked. I've been contemplating starting it for a couple months now and finally got my first five skeins of Noro yesterday. If it weren't for blogging tonight I would have cast on already for my first square but alas it will have to wait till tomorrow. I think I will copy Anna's genius idea of making continous strips to make for less seaming at the end of the project. I am hoping I might have this done before Christmas, wish me luck. Maybe I will get a picture up of a square before the end of the weekend, if I stop typing and start knitting again some time that is.

Ooh Ooh Yarn

More yarn photos. This is stash I picked up at the summer sale at the Knitting Bee a couple weeks ago. There is some Brown Sheep Wildfoote, a bit of Baby Cover superwash wool (who doesn't need more sock and baby yarn in their stash? exactly, everyone does) and a single skein of Cascade 128 Tweed in Black-Most likely a hat for DEC, but you never know. It's always fun to get useful yarns on a great deal!

My Baby is Loved

Well it has been a while since I've posted so tonight is just full of pictures and updates on knitted things. This one is of some very lovingly made items I've received for our new baby girl, Baby B. The Pink Flower Power/Fuschia blanket was sewn by a great girl, Sarah, whom I've known for about 2 years now. She does not seem to have a blog yet, but trust me, she's awesome. We met at an SnB group before I moved out of that heat and I've always had fun with her and think she is a great woman. (Sarah, if you're reading this, don't worry, I'm still my sarcastic goofy self, just being sentimental for this post only).

Next up we have two baby hats made by one of my very best friends, Heather. I think she got the bunny hat pattern out of the IttyBitty Hats book and made up the other one. They are both so very soft and are going to fit perfectly when late fall/winter hits here. I already put them on Baby B after baths to keep her head dry and warm. Heather is another person who I love and if you ever get a chance to meet her, take it, she's awesome!

Next up is a full size blanket that was gifted to me by the great ladies who help make up the weekly knitting group at the Bee. Each of the 12 ladies made up a square of their choice using Blue Sky Cotton and put it together to make an absolutely beautiful and soft blanket. I almost want to save it but know that I and Baby B are going to do much snuggling in it. Soon I will have a little card documenting who made each square to put in the baby book. Christina used her extra yarn to make the little bunny pictured. It's a great size for B. to snuggle with when she is resting. All these women are great, inspiring knitters for different reasons and I am so honored that they'd make this gift for us. Oh and they all helped on the always (for me anyway) dreaded seeming and edging!

Fun goodies

The first picture is the cloth and goodies I received from this quarter's exchange over on the Monthlydishcloth yahoo group. Bethany was very generous and included some beautiful hand made stitch markers and nice tea. The cloth is in my favorite colors too. Thank you Bethany!

The second picture is of some nice wool that I won over on this nice blog
She doesn't identify herself by name so I won't either but it's a fun blog to read and she must be awesome to do a contest that I won :). Thank you! I am thinking the pink and yellow blend will make a nice hat for my Baby B. The bright yellow may be enough to do a hat for DEC but may blend the two somehow and make a baby sweater or something along those lines.

Sweet Sixteen Update

Ok, I finally got a few moments to upload pictures and post some here on the blog. The first is the package I received from Jeannie in CA. The great cloth she sent me is of the state of Oregon with the state abbreviation on the bottom. I am a really lousy photographer so it doesn't show up well but it's there trust me. And a very pretty glass bead. I do beading sometimes so I'll have to think of something nice to add this to. Then the two skeins of yarn are Hot Purple and Violet Veil. I used the Hot Purple for Laurie in IN (no blog :(
Jeannie must know that I like purples cause the skeins I had already picked to send to Laurie were Soft Violet and a variegated purples colorway. This whole game has been a lot of fun and I hope if Emily does one again I will get to be on another great team.

Tag,...I'm it!

Just a very quick post to let my team members know I just got the box this afternoon. Am working on cloth right now (somewhat collicky newborn not helping in getting it done too quickly). hope to get it on it's way tomorrow.....will update with photos soon, want to get cloth done first!