My Crochet Spot

Yarn and hooks and new projects

Ok, so yesterday we went to early service at church, went home and Travis took a nap until 12. Then I left for Tracie's and Travis and Jake left for Disney Quest. They had so much fun and didnt get home until almost 7!

I picked up Tracie for a jaunt to Palm Harbor (which is just the other side of Peru) to a yarn store that was having a fibre arts fair. :) . They were spinning and knitting and weaving and there was a SALE!! We were there for an hour I guess, browsing and petting and wandering and looking and petting. I got 2 hanks of wool in black to make a tote bag (with my country blue as a trim patons wool) to be felted. I also got a Brittney hook in K which I love. LOVE. I want more. All of them would be good but at like $7 a piece that could become expensive. (however when telling my mom of the yarn shop goodness, she was like "that's right next to one of our offices"...REALLY? So ANY gift you need to get me needs to come from there. No, I dont care what it is). They have spinning classes and dyeing classes and knitting classes, and if it wasnt past Peru i'd be there much more often.

After partaking in the yarn shop goodness we went back to Tracie's place to work on fixing the blanket for the lady. It worked, we repaired 3 holes, and put it in the wash to get the piss stains out. Didn't quite work as well as we wanted, the repairs held but 3 washings created 2 more holes (but i was gone by then so she gets to fix them herself), and still didnt get all the discolorization out. [Note: If your animal pisses on an heirloom blanket, please wash it BEFORE the dog's been dead 3 years. I'm just sayin]

The $ from the lady will go to pay for our March show - $65. Dani will have to contact the lady and meet with her to give the blanket back and collect the money. She will have earned her share. Poor, poor dani.

I wore my sweater today. Again. Beause I had to show it off at work. I had to make all my co-workers pet my sweater. Hehe.

Oh, and yesterday when i was at Tracie's house watching olympics and waiting for the washer she gave me some homespun out of her mom's stash that she got THAT SHE (the mom) WAS JUST GONNA THROW AWAY!!!!! A skein and a half!!! So I made this.

Well, almost finished making this - one more handle to go. It's homespun and Mode Dea Dream. It's fuzzy, and my cat likes the taste of the Dream. Silly kitty.

Speaking of the kitty, I re-felted the Kitty Pi and now it's small, like 9" across. It fits my cats head. But he still likes it, and it does stand up more. Oh well, lesson learned!

Well, I guess that's it for now, yarn porn to be posted later.

posted by Brandee Fondren @ 1:08 PM