Can this be right?

Since I bought so much yarn last week, I decided to donate some of my older stash to make some room to store the new stuff. So I packed up 3 huge shopping bags and drove off to the nursing home in town. When I brought the bags in, one of the women at the reception desk comes over and says to me "Oh, I get so excited when someone brings in yarn". Ok....Didn't think much of this. Then I told her that there were some scraps for craft projects but others had full skeins, probably enough for a baby blanket or baby sweater. Her response was "Ooohhhh, just what I like to make". Ok, now is it me, or does it sound like she's going to raid the bags before the residents get it? As I was walking out of the building, I heard this woman say to someone, "now I'll have to sharpen up my crochet hook", which is scary since I don't know of anyone who does this....maybe its an old ritual of some sort. (just kidding...I know she was just making a "funny" that really wasn't)

Seems to me that the residents aren't going to see much of this yarn and I doubt there is anything I can do about it. There is no way to prove she took it, let alone if anyone else took some too. I was going to ask the sister at our church to find out for me but I don't know if she'd be agreeable to subterfuge.

Speaking of our church, I stopped by the church office today to drop something off. As I get to the door, the door opens by itself, very slowly. Scared the living crap out of me! Now normally, you have to ring the doorbell to get into the office, so the door opening by itself was strange enough. So of course, I'm walking in waiting for something to happen and all I hear is laughter from the 5 or 6 people inside. I look behind the door, and its no other than our priest! Fr. Sig did it on purpose!!!! He said "you should have seen you jump"! I guess I should add that I couldn't see anything thru the door window, but they obviously saw me.

Nothing like being the butt of a practical joke of a priest to make you humble. Plus, this is only like the third time I've met the man....gotta love 'em!

Just wanted to show you what I woke up to one morning a few months ago. My kittens...my $15 a ball cashmere blend yarn.......
Apparently, they had a party and I wasn't invited. Such a good party, in fact, that one of them puked on the yarn to make sure it wasn't salvageable. I think they find this funny. I also think that they think I have nothing else to do, so they find things for me to do....like clean up after them.
Now unfortunately, this is not the first ball of $15-a-ball-cashmere-blend they destroyed. Oh No!!!! This was the THIRD ball!!!!
I finally learned after that one to put the yarn in a room where they cannot go in since they figured out how to get into my storage containers.
Only took me THREE BALLS!!!! I'm a quick learn huh???
Welcome to my world.

Stitch Marker Exchange & Some Knitting

Ok...one more post today and I'll stop, I promise. :)

Here are the two knitting projects I'm working on. I'm a very beginner knitter so they are quite easy, but with two yarns on each. The pink one is just garter stitch, which is fine with me. The purple one is stockinette, which is driving me crazy! I don't know how to fix my mistakes so when I do make a mistake, I have to wait for a knitter friend to help me figure it out. But its a gift for one of my sisters and its a labor of love.

And...the gorgeous stitch markers are from my first Stitch Marker Swap with Robyn. The ones I got from Karine are on the left - beautiful pearls & blue crystals & the ones from Robyn, which I received today are the turquoise & irredescent glass beads. Just beautiful!! I can't wait to use them but I've hung them on my bulletin board by my desk so I can see them every time I'm here messing around on the 'puter. They are too pretty to just put away.

And a thanks to Robyn for, number one, hosting the stitch marker exchange and number two, for encouraging me for creating my blog. (I don't know...some people may curse you for that, but we'll have to wait & see) :)

Huge Yarn Haul & Projects

Last week I found out that a local yarn shop was closing. So I went to check out what they had on sale. Check out this stash!!! A sad note is that I'm going to miss that shop....really nice people, beautiful yarns. I'm so sad for the owner. She really seemed upset and I hated to benefit from such a bad situation, but who am I to pass up a bargain? This is what I got:
17 Berocco Glace
2 Fiesta Silk Chenille
1 Euroflax Athens
1 unnamed ribbon yarn
1 Prism
13 Berocco Soft Twist
2 Mountain Colors Wool
4 Green Mountain Spinnery - Cotton Comfort
2 Opal Sock yarns
3 Mountain Colors Mohair
6 Lambs Pride Wool
26 Berocco Cotton Twist
Plus some needles & notions.

I know what I'm going to do with most of it, but some I just couldn't pass up.


And...I wanted to include a picture of some of my projects. This is the Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Afghan. The ruffle still has one round to go and I'm done. You can see the beginning of the last round on the right hand side of the corner. This is an anniversary present for my sister and her husband. It's done in a crown stitch that is so pretty!
Also is the Claudia Hand Dyed scarf & the same scarf with the Berocco SoftTwist. I LOVE the way the scarf looks in the hand dyed yarn. Love the color changes. Oh, and the crazy shawl/afghan. I started this as a shawl, but made the width too short and I didn't want the stripes going up and down, so its now going to be an afghan. I'll do a multi-directional around the sides and hope it looks okay. There are around 15 or 16 differnt yarns used on it. I just went where the yarn took me. No rhyme or reason to it. I just let it speak to me and tell me what was next.

First Post Ever

Well, I finally decided to start a blog. Here is where I can talk about my adventures in crochet, knitting & being a cat-mom as well as a bunch of other ramblings that may come to mind.

Right now I'm working on the following crochet & knit projects:

*Crochet Beaded Wrap in On-Line Linie
*Crochet Victorian Afghan in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino
*Crochet "what started out as a shawl & is now an afghan" in many different yarns
*Crochet Vogue Shawl in Knit One Crochet Two Ambrosia
*Crochet mittens which will probably turn into fingerless gloves since I never finished them in Kathmandu
*Knitted wrap in Rapture & Odyssy Glitz
*Knitted wrap in Katia Pinta & Jewel FX
*Crochet bath mat in Sirdar Snowflake & fun fur
*Crochet scarf in Claudia Hand Painted Fingering weight

Thats all I remember right now. As you can tell, I tend to start new projects before I finish others .... no, really???
I like having alot of projects on hand in case I get bored.

Well, welcome to my blog!