I completed the first part of the Knit-n-Stitch update today below are the items added…

Fiber Dreams Patterns, Red Heart Heart and Sole sock yarn, and the New Colors of Patons Kroy Sock. I also changed the Coming soon notification on the home page and a few other items that you’ll have to check out on your own I will be adding Books and some Cross Stitch Kits with my next update which will be coming in the next couple of weeks.

I got a few pictures to post of the boys and another Glad that bloomed recently that I planted last year.

 Such a pretty shade of orange It is different than the color I was expecting, the one that came up in this area last yr was red with a yellow center, however I think this one is much prettier.

How bout a picture of Charlie…  Shes decided that she likes Bamboo and Wool blend yarn almost as much as she likes the Sea Wool from Fleece Artist and has been “helping” me work on my 2nd pair of SOS08 socks. Yes, they are still inprogress since I decided to do the website update now instead of later, oh well all I have left is the last pattern repeat and ribbing then I will have a completed pair of socks.  Now for the pictures of Bligh and KooKoo…

 KooKoo decided that the box seen here belongs to him, in this picture Bligh has taken over and KooKoo is ever so gently (WHAP WHAP) reminding Bligh just who the box belongs to HEHE!  Here the boys are trying to determine who gets to control ownership of the clean towels They are still loving towards each other as brother will be but as Brian calls them…They are the Thunder and Lightning Twins as well!

Tuesday Brian and I went to Springfield as he had to run some Funeral Home errands and we stopped at Simply Fibers. Its was very nice, they have all sorts of yarns and goodies there including a few that I have been wanting to add to my list of available yarns. I restrained myself…while I wanted the DiC Smooshy and the TOFUtsies, and several other yarns they had I only got 2 skeins of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in Girly Girl for Hailey’s either Bday or Christmas present. Arent you proud of me!! Especially since I went on a TLE Binge and got 4 skeins of yarn the other day, including DiC Smooshy ButterPeeps, Sugar Bunny Blvd Old Navy, Perchance to Knit Hot Fun in the Summer, and Hazel Knits Beach Glass. The upside I now have a credit to use to get the 2nd Anniversary Loopy Kit and maybe a few other items.

Well thats all for now, I better get back to knitting!

Hi there everybody!

I have received several  very positive comments recently about the Knit-n-Stitch and I want to say Thank You to all who have done so!

This is just a quick update to let ya’ll know that the updat eto the Knit-n-Stitch is coming along nicely and I am hoping to have it done by the end of the week I have received the shipment of Fiber Dreams Patterns and they will be posted with this update as well hop on over there and check them out and start deciding which ones you would like and the yarn to go with it! If you want the PDF version Laura (Fiber Dreams) sells that just make sure you hop on back to the Knit-n-Stitch for the yarn and other items needed to knit them up

I have been taking pics of the Glads as they come up and have a few more kitty shots but have yet to upload them to my computer (gotta quit bein lazy about uploading the pics HEHE) I have also finished the first one and all but 2 pattern repeats and the ribbing for the second one Will post pics when the socks are complete.

Thats all gotta get back to work and get the website updated!

Knit-n-Stitch News First!

I have ordered and expect delivery in the next few days of Fiber Dreams patterns!! These will go up on the Knit-n-Stitch next week as well as the Red Heart Sock yarn which is finally in and some new Paton’s worsted wt yarn and some Cross Stitch patterns. These changes start Monday and I will let ya know here when the changes have been completed! I havent finalized arangements with Ray over at Knitivity yet to make up the kits with his yarns and Laura’s patterns but am hoping I will be able to build and offer them in the near future Till then (and afterwards if you just want the yarn but why would ya LOL) go bug Ray and let him know that his indie work is appreciated and loved and For Heavens sake BUY!!! Then of course you’ll have to buy all the needles and such so trot right on back to the Knit-n-Stitch for those

Ok enough of the webstore promos for today on to the part that you really wanna see and thats pictures!

 Here is another piccie of my little girl Nayla, she is gonna be a strictly outdoor kitty since the boys arent very happy to let her come in. The girlies dont mind but in the desire to keep the boys from bein cranky (they are both strong guys) and my hands from bein attacked by mad kitties she is happy to be loved from outside the door. We will be packaging her and the boys up shortly for their trips to the vet for shots, check ups and of course the dreaded fixins. Isnt she a little cutie!!

 Here are my second entry into Summer of Socks. Pic was taken earlier today and they arent gonna be finished in time for the 10pm EST ending time for this 2wk time period. Oh well they will be done and hopefully posted by Sunday eve or early Monday for then next 2 weeks. I will be having Brian randomly choosing another pattern for me tonite and will be starting them either this weekend or as soon as this pair is done that is yet to be determined. These socks (pictured) are for me, most of the rest of the socks done between now and Christmas will be gifted. There will also be a specially designed pair of socks made for my dad. My mom and I are gonna work on designing a pair of intarsia/fair isle combo socks for him that say Semper Fi. I am hoping these will be done by His Bday in September or if not then by Veterans day. He is a Proud Veitnam Vet and also Proud to be a Marine! Since he doesnt read my blog or check out Ravelry I will be posting progress here and there. I have a few other projects blooming in my head and will be chatting about them here as time goes by including working on the Blended Frog Scallopini Pattern and offering it here as a freebie in the future. It wont be a downloadable pattern you will have to print it from this page but I’ll let ya know when its ready and you can print off. 

I will be posting more flower pics soon as my Glads are starting to bloom, so far only the ones from last yrs planting but the new ones from this yr are starting to get big and should be putting out their flower stalks soon.

Well I’m off to take a shower and get ready to go to the Veterans cemetery here in Rocky to meet up with the rest of my fellow VFW members for the local paper to take a picture See ya’ll either Sunday or Monday….Hopefully with an FO and a New WIP photo to show I’ll leave ya with a pic of Sandy who clearly thinks my dirty sock is good enough to sleep with…

 Have a Nice Weekend!

But maybe some picture will cure that

 Meet Nayla our newest addition! Shes a little sweety who looks just like a combo of Bligh, KooKoo, and Mary’s little girl Cinnamon. Our best guess as to where she came from is the same as the boys. She just showed up on our front porch much the same way as Bligh and KooKoo. We tried to bring her in so could make sure shes housebroke and friendly, deflead etc but the boys threw a livid fit!!! SO she is staying on the porch and is bein cared for and loved just the same.

 Bet ya thought you wouldnt see anymore flowers here this yr HEHE! Well suprise! Here is one of the Glads I thought died last year I also have 2 other Glads getting ready to bloom from the bunch that were planted last yr. One is about to bloom and the other is getting close.  There are also several newly planted Glads coming up too and I cant wait to see what they look like

Knitting news… I got to the cuff of the Toe Up w/ a Difference socks and am adding a Sensational Socks Basket Weave pattern to it so that they can qualify for Sockdown and SOS. The basket weave looks really nice in the Regia Bamboo so I’m happy. Will take pictures of it prob this eve and post them here and on Ravelry tomorrow. Brian finally got stuff mostly done at the Funeral Home and wouldnt ya know it he got a Death call the other day so I’ve  been getting quite a bit of kntting time and have been sang to by 2 little boy kitties as well as Charlie who “caught” the catnip mousie yesterday and had to sing about it. Arent kitties something

Thats all for now am gonna get back to work on the socks and see if I can get the second one to a decent phote size so can get good pics of them!

See ya’ll tomorrow hopefully with somemore pics!

I dont know what to say today

The kitties are the same old lazy spoiled furbabies as they always are. My house is fairly clean, I need to do some work on it but am gonna do that tomorrow with my mom’s help (stuff needs moved and I have to have help to do it) and I am making progress on my socks.

 I finished the first Illusions sock last nite and it looks good! The pattern is very subtle but does show up in the right light. Laura has some excellent design skills and I cant wait to offer her patterns for sale at the Knit-n-Stitch as well as offering them in kit form with Ray’s yarn.

I know the Economy sucks right now but this is getting rediculous. I have had 1 sale in the last month and according to Ray he isnt having sales either. We are both on Ravelry, we both have our stores listed he has his shop listed on several lists and I am thinking about doing the same thing. I know OLYS’s and LYS’s are specialty shops and they are bound to have rough patches from time to time but this is getting so that the little guy cant make a living at something he or she loves. Whats worse is if you dont have the credit rating and no startup money (like me HEHEHE) then its even harder to make it in today’s economic state.

I dont want this venue to become a poor poor pity me type blog because I much rather post about my kitties and WIPs FOs and any other happy thing I can think of so I dont plan on dwelling. But I felt I needed to get the word out that there are several “little guys” out there that need your support  both Online and In person.

OH By the way I am gonna take some pictures of my newest Kitty and Flowers today and Post them prob Monday!

Have a Nice weekend all!

Well, should I show the pictures first or give the info on each first?

 Heres the first FO Pic for today of course I have to show Charlie too she is such a pretty cat I cant help myself  heres an upclose and personal picture so you can see the scalloped pattern which is part of the name, Blended Frog Scallopini. I have updated my projects page and the SKA Group on Ravelry with the pictures.

Now for the Mystery… 3 of the 4 cats have been exhibiting strange behavior where the Sock Kit bag from SFS by laying on it chewing and scratching at it and they are all enamoured of it. I e-mailed Kim from SFS and asked, she says that she keeps the kit bags near a bunch of scented bags that include Lavender and other Herbs. So that maybe why the kitties are all in love with the bag

I also have some new flowers coming up; The Glads I planted last yr are blooming I will have pictures of them and our new Kitten Nayla hopefully tomorrow.

Time for me to shut down for the day so I can watch Enterprise with Brian. Have a nice evening all!

And she is purrrrrrring! We finally for the first time this yr left the A/C on overnight last night because it was forcast to be hot by the time we would be up and moving around. Guess what the forcast was right…by 8:30 this am it was already 80 degrees F and climbing.

Someone has given us a new kitten, she showed up last night crying at the lr door. KooKoonut found her and we let her in, however there was an uprising with the boys so we put her back outside with some water, food and a place to sleep. She looks like a cross between bligh, kookoo, and cinnamon (MIL’s kitten from the same litter) she had Bligh’s ears and paws, looks just like Kookoo in the face and has Cinnamon’s Torti coloring. I dont have a picture yet but will be taking one soon. She is a little sweety, not as cuddly as the boys at that age (appx 8 weeks) but still a sweety.  We have named her Nayla after the female lion cub on Lion King because her face has the look of a lion cub

I have started my second SOS08 sock, I am using Wendy Johnson’s pattern; Toe Up Socks With a Difference using Regia Bamboo in a Rainbow Colorway. I am gonna make them short just like all my other socks with a 3in cuff. I cant wait to have them far enough along to try them on and am hoping the bamboo yarn will make for a light weight summer sock. So far I am liking the way the yarn colors are knitting up. I am also about 4 repeats shy and the toe shy of finishing the Blended Frog socks and I am already planning changes to the initial pattern to make it even more my own pattern. I am gonna try to finish the Froggie socks tonite during StarTrek TNG.

Thats all for now, Have a Nice evening and I will do my best to have some new pictures tomorrow and soon some new flower pics as well. My Glads from last yr are beginning to put up flower stalks and the new ones are growing up quickly

 Hooray First Socks of SOS or sinished, details below;

Pattern: Whispering Leaf by Lijuan Jing, Yarn: JoJoLand Melody Superwash 2 skeins with leftovers in Reds, Blues, Purples and Green. Needles: KnitPicks 2 size 1 16in Fixed Circs. Mods: Shorter cuff and foot to fit recient taste and size. This is a pattern I prpbably wont do again, its easy thats not the problem. The problem is the instructions are a tad goofy especially if you use the recomended 4 DPNs.

Thats all for today other than to say Have a Happy $th  and be careful!! Enjoy the FIreworks and (if you are getting together) Your family and Friands!

Off to help my Grandma get ready for the Hewett Clan Gathering

And yes I much prefer Mr Pibb or Coke to Diet Dr Pepper But at this time all we have is Diet Dr Pepper in the fridge, yep, thats right I said the Fridge. So how do you ask is the soda frozen…well, the fridge likes to act like a freezer just ask the contailer of Iced Tea which is sitting half frozen in the fridge right now. We need a new one but that like everythinbg else around here will come with time. Speaking of time I guess I better spend my time today posting pictures of my 11 and 3 yr old girls Sandy aka”Sannybug” and Charlie aka”the kitten”

 Oh by the way if you remember correctly I also said the boys will be making appearances occassionally This picture is of Sandy (upright) Charlie (Tuxedo) and Bligh (sleeping) notice also that Bligh and Charlie are lying next to each other which is a very rare occurance indeed as they are usually fighting when that close

 Now this is a common occurance, Bug and Charlie sleeping next to each other!  Here is a fairly good picture of Bug by herself loafing which is her usual mode of operations, if she isnt loafing shes got a “Sinking Feeling”…

 One of her favorite spots to lay. Now to show some pictures of Charlie…  and she is sleeping in her favorite spot on the couch  And here is Charlie imitating Bug behind the Laptop.  As you can see Charlie likes to get into some strange places HEHEHE!!

Of course I better show a picture of KooKoo since I have one of Bligh today.  Hes cuddled up with who else but his Bug.

Thats all for todays post, tomorrow I will have atleast 1 FO to post and hopefully some progress on the Blended Frog Scallopini socks.

I guess bein away from the blog for 2 days isnt to bad HEHE Yesterday I got the first Whispering leaf sock done for the SOS08 KAL and have the second one more than half done, well ok it was already half done but i did get a couple more repeats done on it. Today I have been working on winding the rest of my sock yarn so I can start my next pair of socks when this pair is done. Tonight I will prob work on the Frog sock for Sockdown July or one of my preSOS socks.

I need to get all the Sannybug and Charlie pics together for their Blog Post like the one with the boys. I would also like to say Thank You to Samm, Alison and Pup for the lovely comments about the boys. Keep an eye out and watch the girls pictures because I’m sure the little monsters will make an appearance Especially KooKoo who loves to have his picture taken!

My mom is wanting to play either Canasta or Gin so I’m gonna end the post now and will see ya probably tomorrow with pictures of the girls.