The Humboldt County Library...

...is a great resource for knitters it turns out. Today I got Barbara Walker's 3rd treasury of knitting patterns, Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting, and Ann Budd's the knitter's handy book of patterns. I also got 2 audio books to listen too while I'm knitting, The Lady and the Unicorn and Mistress of Dragons.

As an added bonus, oh yes the children's section has movies the kidlets do not currently own. :)

Stranded Wool for home and abroad

Here is the wool that I've been making into children's hats for the Afghans for Afghans project, except the black skein in the back which will be a helmet liner.



And the fingering weight wool for my first test knitting project finally arrived. I forgot that living in the middle of the redwoods implies that everything takes forever to ship. In fact the post office won't even guarantee shipping times... but at least its pretty here.

What have you been doing?

This is what I've been up to ---->

I entered 3 items in the city fair, and 6 items in the county fair this summer. By far the sweater I made for Amber got the most notice, winning first place in its class, best of show, and the viewer's choice award at the city fair and first in its class and the Generation's yarn shop award at the county fair.

My personal favorite? To wear-- I'd say the socks, as a technical accomplishment--the blue cropped lace sweater.

Ravelry

Oh the joy that is getting into Ravelry. I think I spend more time reading about knitting, then actually knitting now :)