You Make My Day!

Wow! I received the “You Make My Day” Award from my friend Sam! Thank you so much If you haven’t read her blog yet, go do it…I’ll wait. I just love seeing what she is working on.

Now I get to give the award out to other blogs I love to read. The rules are as follows: “Give the award to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blogland. Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on. Beware you may get the award several times.”

Here are some of the blogs that I love reading everyday (or at least every time they update):

BitterSweet
Cat with Cats
Chan Knits
Kelly*Girl*Knits
Knittin’ with the Boys
Mamascrapalota
NH Knitting Mama
Knitterella
Sheep in the City
The Written Word

Phew! It was hard to come up with a list of only 10! There are certainly many more blogs I read…even if I don’t always leave a comment

Books & Other Fun Stuff

I received these books yesterday, and realized I still haven’t shared the fun knitting-related stuff I received for my b-day and Christmas!

** Warning…long post with lots of pictures **


I’ve been wanting these books for a while. I couldn’t pass up the Barnes & Noble sale!

I love this bag! Some of my friends gave me a gift card to Colorful Yarns so I could get one of the new Amy Butler Sweet Life bags for my b-day.

Mary-Kay gave me this pashmina from her trip to New York!

These are also from Mary-Kay…I get to choose the color and she’ll dye them just for me

Stacey & her mom, Marsha, hosted a Christmas party and we each had a partner for the gift swap. Marsha gave me this pink bucket (holds lots of yarn!), some Opal sock yarn*, sock stitch markers and sock patterns! They also had cute little candy cane stitch markers as party favors.

Sam gave me this fun stuff: a really cute cat book, “lounge” pants with cats and yarn, and Colinette JitterBug yarn in the Mist colorway*.

Nachaele gave me this pretty Blue Sky Alpacas Suri Merino yarn in the Seamist colorway*, some little sheep stitch markers, sheep-shaped soap and an AMC gift card.

This cool tote is from Kelly.

This awesome bag and stitch markers (skulls!!!) are also from Kelly!

The week before Christmas the Arvada knitters got together at Knit Knack for a gift exchange. I got this book from Betsy.

I got these awesome stitch markers from Stacey. LOVE the sheep on them

And finally, some fun tape measures from Lantern Moon!

Thank you so much to everyone! I’m looking forward to knitting a lot more this year, and learning how to knit socks!!

*The photos don’t necessarily portray the actual color of the yarn! Sorry, bad lighting in our apartment

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By the way, if you’re looking for some new yarn, or possibly a new knitting bag, check out Jeni’s Destash sale!

Swirled Ski Cap

I started the Swirled Ski Cap on Sunday. I should have enough yarn to make a few hats. My original thought was to make as many as I can with this yarn and donate them to Kaps for Kendall. I am still going to do that, but after reading this post on Amanda’s blog, I decided to give my first hat to Megan.

I finally made it to Knit Knack last night for the Arvada knitters group. It was so great to see all of you! I really must get back into the habit of going every Tuesday. I even learned something new last night! I realized that I started knitting the wrong row on my hat, so I had knits & purls on the same side which was not correct. Of course, I realized this after knitting about 6 rows. Usually, I will just tink back (even several rows), until I get to the correct row. Otherwise, I will just frog it and start over. Last night I learned how to unravel my knitting to the row I want and then pick up stitches A big Thank You to Christie for all your help!

Recipe for Me

I saw this on Chan’s site:

The Recipe For Terrie

3 parts Tolerance 2 parts Elegance 1 part Success Splash of Ingenuity Finish off with an olive

What’s the Recipe for Your Personality?

I do like olives