Green Mountain

Roscoe and I did a quick morning hike. The shadows were beautiful.

Repaired

The beauty of things so well loved, they are worn through and granted additional life through repairs.

All the pretty yarns...

Waiting to become the Araunami shawl. A gift from Jaime at Fancy Tiger. Beautiful Brooklyn Tweed Loft. Soon...

Planning for my Craftsy class

I have been lucky enough to be hired by Craftsy.com to teach a stranded knitting video class! Can't tell you how excited I am. Let the knitting begin...

Oh my, it's been a long time...

As I get ready to start on the next adventures of my crafting life, it feels like it is time to start blogging again.

Over the past several years, I have knit TONS, started to sew a bit (very humbling both by machine and by hand), turned into a busy knitting teacher and done some other crafty things. Some of this you can find on Craftsy.com or Ravlery.com - but really most of it has just been mine.

Lately, for my real job and to expand my crafting, I have been re-finding the desire to blog. It will help me with my writing on the professional side and give me an outlet to express some of the reasons, emotions and pride that comes with the small victories in my crafting.

As I look to future blogs, there is Studio Week at Alabama Chanin's Factory next week and then my Craftsy video shoot the first few days in December... Big things to come... Here are a few things that I have been working on...

knitting has been plentiful here...

While there has been quite a bit of knitting around here lately, the picture taking has been lagging. I did get a fancy new camera for my birthday, so I am learning how to use it and hope to have it up and running for better picture quality soon.

In the mean time, here are my two blocked lace projects. The raindrop shawl with Smooshy from the Woolgirl sock club -- which, yes, gives you alternate patterns to just socks! Jen at Woolgirl rocks!! I did have to toss the shawl over Roscoe, since it was his color. He did not appreciate it, but was a good boy for the photo.

The other lace piece is my stonewall stole. I love knitting it. A co-worker had traded yarn with me, so this was her one ply alpaca. I doubled it for the stole and love everything about it - the feel, the colors and the pattern. It blocked to almost double the size it was when it was just knit.

I did take a photo of my make-shift blocking area and Roscoe helping with the blocking process - which really was him laying on the floor sighing and yawning loudly... He did get an extra walk after everything was pinned :)

Soon there will be more photos...
Happy KNitting!!

It's all Roscoe's fault...

In the last three months, Jordan, our foster lab, had a name change to Roscoe and was adopted as a forever member of our family. He has greatly cut into my knitting time - along with a number of other summer activities - like camping, mr.sunneshine's mountain bike racing, yard sales, and family visiting. Roscoe has added a lot of love and joy to our house - so it is worth the lesser time to knit. He has started to carry his own gear hiking and camping, which he loves. And generally is a great dog! And really, who could resist that cute face looking up at you....

There has been knitting. I just have had the camera pointed more on Roscoe then knitting, the next post will have FO's and a couple that I am really loving that are in progress :).

Happy KNitting and happy summer!