so much to share!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Mistress Stash Enhancer) — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:30:00 -0500

I have so much to share! We've been so busy this week, which we usually are when Mike is home on break. First off, I wanna say Thank you to Eva my tea-swap pal, the postal service was taking there dear sweet time with my package which arrived today!

clicky to embiggen all pics in this post

Just what I needed today to calm down after 5 days of running, 2 lovely teas to try out, a box of SUPER yummy cookies (I've eaten well.. a lot so far) LOTS of yummy chocolate (does this girl know me or what?) two balls of regia cotton in surf color and the cutest bird tin. A big THANK you to Eva! I'm so glad my box came today, it was just what I needed!! Thank you!!!

We had a good Thanksgiving at Mike's Mom's. We really enjoyed spending the day with family and friends. Friday night I finished the 6th hat for Christmas knits to help

did ya know, its *really* hard to take a good picture of lots of hats?

Pattern: based off of this pattern off of the yarn label.

yarn: Lion Brand Boucle 79% acrylic, 20% mohair, 1% nylon in the following colorways

1 (white) sprinkles, 2 (red, yellow and blue) Jelly Bean, 3 (the other ones) parfait

needles: First two that I wrote about in a previous post I used size 9 dpns, the last 4 I used 10.5 dpns.

guage: 3sts/inch

notes: took 2 hours to knit each hat, since I started knitting these on Monday I knit 1 hat a day!

Saturday night I started my square for Comforting Jenn, Sunday morning I finished it up and blocked it

front of square on left, back of square on right

Pattern: Little Arrows. casted on 44 stitches (multiple of 8+1)

row 1: K2, P2, K1, P2 *K3, P2, K1, P2, rep from* to last 2 sts, K2

row 2: P3, K1, P1, K1 *P5, K1, P1, K1, rep from* to last 3 sts, P3

row 3: K1 *P1, K5, P1, K1, rep from* to end

row 4: P1 *K2, P3, K2, P1, rep from* to end

yarn: Joann's sensations bellezza collection tesoro 100% wool color 954 light pink

needles: size 8 straights

guage: 5sts/inch

notes: so freakin soft and squishy! Love this yarn.

Right now, I have some mittens on the needles and I have to figure out what I'm going to bring with me up to Boston later this week.

Sunday Mike and I brought down *ALL* the Christmas boxes from the attic. Damn. After all that he was such a sweetie, he went down to the grocery store to buy me ice cream sandwiches that I.had.to.have. Today, we decorated the tree and rocked out to some Christmas tunes. I'll leave you with these pics

must go catch up on emails...

Saturday sky, tea stash, and what??

noreply@blogspirit.com (Mistress Stash Enhancer) — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:35:38 -0400

Saturday Sky

finally, some blue sky and sunshine today! The kids really enjoying playing outside this afternoon while I knitted the sleeve of my sweater. We both enjoyed the sun which we haven't seen in weeks.

I'm participating in the Knitter's tea swap 2 and have flashed my tea stash

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I knew I had *some* tea, but I really had no idea that I have 12 boxes of tea! I love fruit teas and mint teas. I want to collect tea cups and tea pots. But my collection is very slow growing. The tea cup on the left I got from a DAR tea years ago with my Mom and Grandmother. If you embiggen the pic you can see my tea pots on the hutch in the background. My favorite tea pot is the blueberry one, my Mom gave it to me.

This brings me to what???

A few weeks ago, before my Aunt fell ill she gifted my mom with some yarn, which in turn was gifted to me. In the bag of vintage wool there are 12 13" crocheted squares in all.

I would like to make 2 felted rugs. But have no idea if I should sew the squares together before I felt them or after I felt them?? If anyone has any input ppplllleeeassseee let me know!! I would love to mail my Aunt one of the finished rugs.

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so much to share!

Saturday sky, tea stash, and what??