The Yarn That I Bought :-/ .......

So, I bought yarn recently.  I kind of got obsessed with a little thing called Wollmeise.

First I bought this lovely skein:

There's a lot of purple in this skein that I just could get to show up in the pictures.

Next I bought this purple/pink skein:

Next I bought these skeins, two greens, a purple, and a teal:

The next two skeins I bought, I got from the actual Wollmeise shop.

Out of all of these skeins, I gave Heather three as an early birthday present.  I let her choose which skeins.  She took the bright green, the blue/purple, and the teal:

I've decided that I'm going to make a Whippoorwill out of these two:

So I really haven't kept with my yarn diet lately, but what are you going to do?  These skeins are just so gorgeous and I wanted to splurge on Heather.  She's been so great to me lately and she went all out on me for Christmas.

The second purchase of yarn that Dave bought me came in yesterday.  I show it to you soon.  The pictures I just took are a little dark.

Sam :-)

What did my weekend consist of?

Not much...

Chemo hit my bf pretty hard, so he was sick all weekend.  I tried to clean up a bit around the apartment.

My dad bet me that we couldn't get our air mattress back into the box.

I sent him a picture message asking if almost counts:

I stopped over my parents house to pick up some homemade soup.

My dad made a TON of soup.  This pot was a lot fuller before he distributed it out in containers for the family.  I love his beef soup.

I tried to take a couple pictures of my dog, Georgie, while I was there, but he wasn't having any of it.  This was the best I could do.

I organized a lot of my yarn this weekend.  I took pictures and uploaded the info onto Ravelry.

This is the yarn that Heather got me for Christmas for our knitting class next month.

Isn't it pretty?!  Did you see the brand?!  She really spoiled me.  Thanks again Heather!

I didn't realize how much King Cole Riot I have.

Ever since I made my Riot Ripple Scarf with it, I've loved it.

I have this yarn set aside for this pattern.

It is a really pretty navy with some purple tones in it.

I realized that I have a ton of cotton yarn.  I have some Lily Sugar n Cream.  Here's a sampling:

I have some Lion Brand cotton:

and I also have a TON of Knit Picks Dishie cotton yarn.  Here's a small sample:

I used this yarn in Christmas colors to make ornaments this year.

I've rambled for a while now and that was my weekend in a nut shell.  I managed to get about 14 rows of my ripple done and a couple more inches of my first knitting project.  I'll show you progress pictures on Wednesday.

Sam :-/

Amaryllis Musings

So, I've mentioned my friend Heather a couple of times.  Heather is who I am taking my knitting class with, as I mentioned, here.  Heather is also who gave me the words of wisdom at the end of this post.

Heather and I first met in college in our engineering classes.  We then both joined APO, Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed service fraternity.  Here we are at a meeting:

Wow, I forgot how much I hate those old glasses of mine.  Here are better pictures with my pretty glasses:

Yay, pink glasses!  Heather where are you looking?  Ps, I immediately threw that James Dean t-shirt away after this night because his face gets, ahem, uhhh, distorted when you actually wear the shirt.

We were sad because we had the little beers and everyone else had the big ones.

Okay, there we are, both looking, and wow my hair is long.  I get distracted easily.

The point of introducing you to Heather is I have finally badgered her enough that she has started a blog!  Woohoo!

Heather's new blog is:

http://amaryllis-musings.blogspot.com/

She's a crafty one, and her stuff is bound to be amusing.

Check her out!

Sam <3