Knitterly chit-chat...

 

Good morning/afternoon to you!

 

 

This last week felt a bit long, right? One way of looking at it is that we earned our weekend. :) How was your week?

 

Yarn~ Miss Babs Hot Shot   color~ Biker Chick

It was a brilliant mail week, as I received my swap package for the My Sister's Knitter All About Fall swap on Ravelry. These beauties came from a longtime friend and member Peggy. Does she not have wonderful taste? Obviously everything excites me but the Miss Babs as it is the first time I will be trying it.

 

Yarn~ Zwerger Garn Opal Smile  color# 7933

Sock knitter continues and despite casting on all the socks I am really trying to get a pair finished. I dove into the WIP basket and pulled out these fun socks , realized they didn't have too much more to go and figured why not finish these. Do you ever do that?

 

Yarn~ Dream in Color Baby   color~ Funky Fuchsia

And then even more projects have been added to the WIP basket. That is what happens when one comes out-one goes in. Heh, who am I kidding even if the WIP basket is overflowing a new WIP gets adding and I blame it on Fall. The reason for casting on this lovely new pink wrap came from a dream. I dreamt that I had a huge pink shawl and lost it. I took it as a sign that I needed one as I seemed to have loved it immensely in my dream. Do you ever dream of knitting or knits?

That is my week and weekend in a nutshell. Lots of yarny goodness happening. Later today I will be making a favorite soup, potsticker soup. So easy and good. I have not made it yet but here is a picture of it from when I made it previously. To put this simple soup over the top...add freshly grated ginger.

 

 

 

Now on to my Sunday. I will leave you with this fun video tutorial on how to make these fun knitted pumpkins!

 

 

 

 

Have the best day today!

XO,

Andi

 

Comments

[Loretta Tassoni]

And thank you so much for the knitted pumpkin
tutorial! too easy not to make some in yummy colors.
spending my day watching football with my husband and working on an Opal Popcorn pair of socks fir ME!!!
i rarely knit for myself. dear hubby and favorite nieces get all my projects:)
hugs
Loretta

[Dee]

Oh MY! That Miss Babs sock yarn is lovely.

This week WAS long -------but, oh so busy! Moving day is Wednesday. It has meant several trips to Jacksonville and a whole lot of boxing things up.

[stefania]

Wow lovely pattern and colour too. Have a nice week

[Jacqueline Webb]

Wow what lovely colours in all the knitting and yarn photos. Have just joined a yarn club so someone else will choose the colours as I tend to get a bit bogged down with the same colours. Have just got a new favourite tea. Rosehip and Hibiscus it's such a lovely gentle warming tea. Have a lovely week.

[Claudia]

I've had a couple of horrendous work weeks and my guilty "reward" has been augmenting my stash! So while I've not had any swap yarn I am feeling very spoiled and excited about my WIPs :) Love your skein of Miss Babs, very Fall like. Happy sock knitting!

[Jacqueline]

What is potsticker soup? Is it an American thing? I'm from Scotland, and I've never heard of it. It sounds interesting!

[Julie]

I love all your beautiful socks in progress that you share on Sundays, and what a gorgeous package! Very good taste, indeed.

[Stefanie]

Hello my sweet friend. That is one nice swap package. What is that Miss Babs item and the one below it? The new scissors are artistic. I LOVE your Opal yarn. I hope to find some at STITCHES West next February as I loved the Arne & Carlos yarn I had worked with for my Rose City Rollers. I promised my CFO I'd stop spending for the rest of this year since Christmas is coming up. And I thought I'd maybe get to meet you next spring, but husband's graduation from ASU is this December and he decided not to go since it's too hard to travel in that month. So no go.

[Leah]

I love the colours of the yarns in your post. What lovely swap goodies. The shawl will be so vibrant and cheery using that glorious pink. I have not dreamed of knitting yet but it would be good to nod off in nodland and dream of yarn/wool :) Hope you get your socks done, they will make perfect autumnal socks. Xxx Leah

[Tracey]

I love that your dream inspired you to knit a pink shawl!

[karen]

that soup looks delicious and yummy! Gorgeous knitting and I love the opal yarn!

[Kiwiyarns]

Happy weekend! That yarn swap looks so lovely! And I bet the shawl will be perfect, and just like the one in your dream - only you won't lose it!

[Tahnee]

That miss Babs yarn looks delicious! Come to think of it, I can't remember ever dreaming of knitting, which is so odd since 1) I'm one of those people that tends to remember her dreams and 2) I dream about pretty much everything I think/do and I think/do knitting on a daily basis. Very strange..

[Kat]

That's such a great swap box! Everything in it looks delightful. Sometimes I get frustrated when a sock's been sitting around for months (or years), but it's also really satisfying to pick it up, knit half a foot, and have a finished pair!

[steph]

great fall post!!! I'm loving the cool (er) weather....and want to knit absolutely everything I see!!!! trouble brewing!

[Lisa]

I love the socks so far! sounds like you had a good week. Hope you enjoyed your soup too it does look really good!
Lisa

[DIane]

As I mentioned on Flickr, I ADORE the Miss Babs Hot Shot yarn in that Biker Chick colour way -- totally adore that. I also like how those socks are knitting up with the Zwerger Garn yarn.
I had some troubles with short rows this time on my "trench coat" socks which required some laborious and cuss-worthy ripping and then trying to pick up all kinds of open stitches!! But I got back on track and have carried on. Good thing I did these vanilla socks before my Wildflower socks, whew!

I've had a great week, sorry yours dragged on a bit. As I closed on my blog today, "... let's have an amazing week!"

[Tien]

It's definitely soup weather today. The potstickers recipe looks easy and delicious. Love all of the goodies in your swap package. Miss Babs has beautiful yarn indeed. Your pink shawl dream made me chuckle because I not only dream about knitting, my husband says I talk in my sleep about it too!

[Lisa]

Yum soup, that sounds divine, I hope it was delicious.

I am loving your one in - one out mantra, I feel like it's a good one to have :) I wish I could say that I had some WIPs that were close to done, but everything over here is going pretty slow.

I hope you have a wonderful week Andi :)

[Joan]

I like your dream more than the silly one I had last night: Dreamed we had many house guests for dinner, but I only had service for 4 silverware and dinner plates! I seldom remember my dreams, yet this silly one is still in my mind.