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21 August 2006
100th Post! wooOOt!
my 100th post--holy crap. the 1 year Blogiversary came and went without fanfare, but somehow, the 100th post feels like a huge milestone. in honor of it, this will be a GIGANTIC post. yippee!!!!
this weekend involed running around to 3 different LYS. mmmmm. G and i finally got to check out Sheep Street Fibers. It's a lovely shop, and i really wish that my wheel wasn't being a shithead, cause there was soooo many different spinning fibers there! silk hankies, merino top dyed lovely jewel tones, cashmere, merino/silk blends...oh, it made me dizzy! i resited temptation, listened to the reasonable voice in my head saying "um...your wheels all janky. maybe you should just get some yarn..." and i did that. i picked up 2 skiens of Nature Spun Worsted in Coffee Bean and Garland for mittens (more on those in a second).
then, we went to Stitches & Scones. oh, i love that store. we picked up one of their bags--and what a great bag it is--zipper pockets, big enough for a sweater in progress--that gives us a 10% discount every time we shop there. how cool is that? i also picked up a set of Bryspun DPN's (i love the Bryspun needles and their scoopy little tips) and a pair of 9 mm, 47" long Addis to use with mobius strip things. i finally broke down and bought a skien of Malabrigo merino. the colorway i picked at first confused me--it's not really of colors i normally would chose--then i looked at it all wound into a 
ball and it hit me: it lookes exactly like autumn leaves! autumn is my most favorite season, and i'm hard-core gunning for it to get here! i think the yarn was my plea to mother nature to hurry it up! i'm planning on making a felted bowl or bag or something with this. it's really lovely yarn, and i sorta want to buy enough to make a little nest out of...*sigh*
i got some new beadworking tools, and i made up a few stitch markers on Sunday. 
i love the subversive set on the bottom--they make me giggle so.
i really needed a break from Eris, so i decided to make these awsome squirrel & oak mittens from Hello Yarn. i got some Dale Falk at Mass Ave on Friday, cast on and finished mitten 1 in about 3.5 hours (whoot!) 
green and chocolate brown (their gonna be "thin minttnes" hahaha). blocked it out and all that, and CRAP!!! i don't make mittens, so i'm not terribly firmilar with the sizing and what not. and, as small as i am, i have freakishly long fingers (i normally can't wear store bought gloves and such cause the fingers are always waaaayyy too short). these factors combined to make a tiny weeny mitten that doesn't fit me at all! and it looked so good! i picked up some worsted weight yarn (above mentioned Nature Spun) and some 3.5 mm DPN's, and i think that that will make a mitten that i'll actually be able to wear. i'm also going to change the pattern to make the thumb with a gore.
my Lace Swap pal let me know that my package is in the post! it's coming from Australia! how cool is that???? i'm super jazzed!
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You made that mitten in 3 1/2 hours? HOLY MOLY - I wish I knit that fast! Sorry it didnt fit though, it looks AWESOME
Posted by: Dani | 21 August 2006
PS -
Happy 100th post to you
Happy 100th post to you
Happy 100th post dear Kaaaaaate
Happy 100th post to you!!!!
(and manyyyyyy more)
Posted by: Dani | 21 August 2006
OMG, those stitch markers! LMAO!!! I sooooo need some.
Happy 100th!!!!!!
Posted by: Sachi | 21 August 2006
Happy 100th post! My 100th post was a couple of posts ago, but I decided not to announce it for no apparent reason.
That yarn is gorgeous! I used to dislike varigated yarns, but I'm starting to like them more and more. It's so much fun to knit with one and think, 'ooo, what color is next, and how will it look next to this color?!'.
Good luck with the new mitten.
Posted by: Jess | 23 August 2006
love those mittens! wow u are lucky to have so many yarn stores over there! we have a good but very overpriced one in the city so I buy online!
happy 100th post and love those stitch markers! better than mine!!!
Posted by: corrie | 24 August 2006
Happy 100th post!! : )
I think I picked up the very same mano's last week! Looks just like autumn. I'm thinking a seed stitch scarf.
Posted by: Amanda Cathleen | 27 August 2006