March Loves and giveaway winner...

 

Hello and happy Sunday!

 

 

Yay- it is the weekend, we made it. :) How was your week? Despite it feeling a bit long, the week was overall pretty kind to me.

 

 

Knitting was squeezed in during short lunch breaks and really could we ask for more?  While it would have been nicer if the temperatures here in Arizona weren't in the 90's, sometimes you need to be grateful because it could always be worse. In addition I had lovely friends, Meghan and Jody sending me beautiful pictures of snow to keep my heart happy.

 

yarn~ Night Owl Fibers in the colorway Astronomy Tower.

Enough about the week- we are here to talk about the month of March. This month I was able to finish a pair of socks! Being able to add these beauties to my "box o sox" brings joy.

 

 

My friend Lisa asked why I am not wearing the socks I have knit in 2017. The reason is because I am rather excited to have 12 fresh pairs of socks to wear at the beginning of 2018. An odd reason maybe but it's sort of a prize at the end of a race and it has me excited.

 

 

Mail this March has been off the hook (do kids still say that?). Well the mail has been pretty incredible. I have received the most amazing tea from Winterwoods Tea Co and found my zen. Just so you know the Inland Grey...perfection.

 

Dyed In The Wool Yarn Co.

Don't even get me started on the yarn mail love. These sexy skeins will be part of April's Indie Dyer feature next month. Speaking of Indie dyer features, I now get to announce the winner of March's Knitting a Love Song's giveaway. Random number has spoken...

 

#10~

my favorite is KAT! Kirsten has some beautiful yarn in her shop :)

Posted by: Sydney

 

Congratulations, Sydney. I will be sending you an email shortly to get your information to pass on to the lovely and talented Kirsten of Knitting a Love Song. :)

Enough chatter from me, let's get to March loves!

• I have made and received many coasters or mug rugs as gifts and the love affair continued when I saw Hannah's felted coasters. I am at the ready to make up some of these very soon.
• While there are those who state the blogging has gone away and replaced with Instagram. While part of that may be true, my monthly loves proved that blogging is still alive and doing well. Maybe that is why I love catching up with my beautiful friend Kate and all her happenings.
• Post about socks-yep, I'm there. Check out Valerie's sock hop...swoon!
• This Woolspiration courtesy of Ashley features a 1955 film, Knitting Pretty. Oh you must watch, so wonderful.
• My constant fascination with colorwork has been spurred on recently by so many wonderful projects on Ravelry and then led me to Hege's post and her Selbu mittens.
• I get quite a few requests from the sister for things that have PomPoms and while I have only ever made a couple, the love affair never stuck. That is until I saw Julie's post on her obsession with her PomPom maker.
• There is always the stitch that brings us knitters joy, for me that is the seed stitch. I love the texture and the rhythm of shifting the yarn from knitting and purling. When I saw Michelle's Julia Sweater I knew immediately that I want to knit one for myself this year.
• I really enjoy learning new things in the world of knitting. How lovely of Jessica to share how she converted patterned sock patterns to anklets.

 

Thank for sticking with me during a very wordy post. :) Enjoy a song that I can't seem to get out of my head...

 

 

Have the best day today!

XO,

Andi

Comments

[Lisa]

Hi Andi, your box o sox is shaping up nicely, I did the same thing last year and saved all the socks and wore them over Xmas which felt like a really special present to myself. I'm going to do the same this year too. Love the loves as usual, oh those snowy pictures 💕 and a couple new blogs to add to the list, thank you, Lisa

[Kirsten Barbosa]

Oh, congratulations Sydney!

Andi, those socks look so gorgeous in a pile like that! And whoever that yarn dyer is, I'm in love with that colorway in the back. :)

[Deborah Eichel]

I always love when you post favorite things for us to see. Thank you! I enjoy your blog so much.

[Lisa]

So many beautiful blogs to share, I had to click onto them all. My favorite was the felting for sure - I want to try it sometime soon.

That tea looks heavenly, as does the new yarn! I can't wait to learn more about it ;)

[Tammy]

I look forward to your posts every week, thank you! And your links are always great. I've added the coaster project to my queue and am off to enjoy the other blogger sites now.

Love your idea of a sock a month and enjoying them in 2018, too. If I could ever make 2 socks the same size, I'd like to work on that, too.

[Dee]

I looked up that Inland Grey! That sounds wonderful. I may have to make a purchase. LOL

You are SUCH an enabler!

[Julie]

That sounds wonderful to have a whole bunch of fresh new socks at the beginning of 2018! And enjoy the wonderful new tea, and that simply scrumptious new yarn! Excited to hear more about it. And thank you so much for including me in your round up, it is always an honour!

[Gwen Roberts]

I look forward to your Sunday blog.. I always read it instead of starting the supper dishes in a timely fashion! My blog list gets longer because of you... hope you keep on blogging.

[Valerie]

The box o sox is a great idea! I love the idea of setting knitting goals - turns a hobby into an occupation ;) Really, setting concrete goals seems to motivate me more than goals like "knit as much as possible." I'm making/finishing twelve sweaters this year, and maybe I'll try the twelve pairs of socks next year.

[Andrea @ This Knitted Life]

So impressed you are resisting those socks until January! Although maybe you're nuts. We will have to talk and discuss!

[Audry]

Having a fresh pile of socks for the new year seems very appealing! Since I knit socks all through the summer, I find it quite exciting to have a new pile of socks to wear just as soon as the weather turns cool.

[Lisa]

I love how the socks turned out! that is a good idea to save up your socks for next year, you will really enjoy wearing them all in 2018! those skeins look great, I can't wait to hear about the indie dyer next Sunday! have a good week!

[jody from knotions]

great March loves! (as always)

i particularly loved the sock hop and jessica's post (also on socks)...big surprise.

[Pam]

I just finished watching the Knitting Pretty video and it was so enjoyable! Loved the models in their 1950's skirts and the narrator was so British! A little knitting history lesson! Thanks, Andi!