i just started working (full time daycare.. 10 hour + days. waking up at 5 am!@) after 4 years of being a SAHM with a very tiny income.. but a very calm, quiet, lazy life...
so i decided that i deserved to reward myself with something! i really love chocolate but it just makes me fat, so it had to be yarn..wool..bamboo needles.....
anyways! i made an order at HPY.. 4 skeins of this.. 4 of that.. it added up to quite a lage order. i was so happy and excited to get this yarn in the mail but the day after i ordered the yarn a momma friend of mine asked me if i would knit her little one, Noah, some longies. so i emailed HPY and asked would they please add on some "dark earth" yarn to my order and... a few others as well!
i never got a response so i just made a second order through the website, payed the money and wasn't really sure what was happening.
i got the first order 2 days ago and oh my mother earth goddess!! it was and is just incredible.
i wanted to throw it up in the air and dance around singing.. but i made do with petting, smelling and then knitting something with a few of the skeins. Each colourway is totally unique and some of the yarns are softer than butter...some are perfect bulky single ply goodness..some are a bit thick and thin but still perfect for soakers, longies, mittens, hats, scarves.....
anyways.. i went through the order and realised that he had either forgotten my request to merge the orders or was sending them seperately.. except that if that was the case he had sent me too much or not enough... i sent an email to him asking what was up.. and didnt hear back.
but today i got yet another large package in the mail.containing not only the 4 skeins of dark earth that i had ordered, but 3 others of another colourway.. im really not even sure what it is.. so, a long story short.. i have a lot of amazing yarn to keep me very happy and Very busy all this cold winter long.
i belive that my kindness in offering free knitwear to some mommas/babes in need (despite our still being very low income) has brought this extra lovely yarn to me..
or maybe it was the soo yummy apple turnover that i gave to the man sitting in the pouring rain without an umbrella on commercial drive the other day..either way.. im so excited to finally have a good sellection of really nice yarn to knit lots of beautiful things for everyone i love, and even some folks ive never and probably never will meet.
now i just need to find some more time.. maybe i should forgo sleep altogether.
i knit this hat for brynn!
these are a birthday gift for my sister but ive only done one so far and her birthday was in october... maybe they will be a christmas gift instead!
this is kid aran, hand dyed. its hard to see here but the colours are just incredible.. so subtle but magical. i cant wait to see it knit up.my favorite autntie annie came to visit me today and brought a great sock pattern for me.. so im going to attemp to knit a pair this evening. wish me luck. i have about 12 projects on the needles and its hard to choose which one to work on. do you think im addicted to knitting?
this was really easy and fun project to knit and my head feels ever so happy in it!
farm.. a local small farm/business. there, ngaio met her first goat(and a very sweet one too!) elwynn practiced being one and and i got to "ooh" and "ahh" at the beuatiful sheep. i guess loving sheep comes with loving wool..we also saw "daisy" the cow being milked(though i was kind of sad when the farmer told the kids that cow milk is for humans, not baby cows.. yeah, i know that cows make a LOT of milk.. but isn't it kind of creepy to milk the cow then give her baby a bottle? i think so..) all in all it was a fantastic day on the farm.
his new cool shoes!
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