Life is so CRAZY!!!

I promise....something is coming to this page.  I am racking up a list.  There has been lots of knitting, spinning, painting, sewing and baking.  It is really coming.  I am currently trying to get my daughters's Halloween costume finished and then pics and a post.  I really will.

Knit Lots!

It's coming! Really it is!

I just dropped by to say a new post really is coming.  We've been to Delaware, I've been making jam, and we are packing right this minute to go camping.  I will be back soon with details and pics and some yarn that I plied last night.  It has just been wickedly busy around here lately.

Backwards.....usually....

So I have a habit of doing things backwards or the hard way.  I have this idea in my head, for a triangular shawl.  I have hexagonal motifs that I want to start at the point on the back and go up the sides to lay gracefully over the shoulders.  It is a beautiful motif.  I think most people would start with the triangle "in the middle" and then add the motifs to the outside edge.  Not this girl.  I have to start with the motifs and then figure out how to connect them to each other and then how to knit back and forth between them.  So far.....This is what I have....

This is the Sea Star motif from the Vogue Knitting Stitionary Volume 5: Lace.  It is knit on US size 7 needles with Schaefer Yarns Anne in colorway Clara Barton.  It is hard to tell from the pic but the subtle color changes in the red are just beautiful.  I have another skein of this on order from the Yarn Cupboard in Jamesville so I can keep the current skein for the motifs and make them as I need them and knit the center with the other skein.  Well....this is if I can wait long enough to actually get the new skein.  Progress pics as it moves along.  I will be writing it down as I go so I can transform it into a pattern.

I just finished crocheting Corsica for the Yarn Cupboard. 

I will be delivering it in the next hour.  I love the vintage button Susan and I decided to add.  It is crocheted with Rowan Siena cotton yarn on a F5 hook.  It is a size medium so I can't wear it.  Sorry for the flat table pic but I guess it is better then nothing.

So in normal life....I still have absolutely everything still on the needles plus this new shawl thing.  On Saturday we had a large tree in our driveway cut down before another storm went through.  We lost a large limb with the last storm and thank goodness it wasn't on the cars when it fell.  The weekend and most of this week have been and will be consumed with clearing wood and adding it to the wood room to burn this winter.  Yes, I have a wood stove. 

My son has to go to summer school after a rough year this year so our summer should be interesting to say the least.  Planning on going camping soon with dear friends of ours at Bowman Lake and can't wait.  I will have to remember the camera and maybe I can squeeze in some knitting.  I usually can.

Talk to you all again soon!  Happy Knitting!  Drop me a line.

Shannen

Brand New Blog...

Been gonna do this for awhile and here I am.  LOL 

Bridge of Roses Socks by Wendy Gaal is one of the many, many things on my needles at the moment.  I also have two pairs of socks that I am designing and a multitude of others.  My sister's birthday was Tuesday and I still don't have her scarf finished.  I went to a fiber festival on Saturday and bought some lovely fiber that I can't spin till I get the Colinette off of my wheel.  I also still have some seeds that need to get in the ground or they'll never have enough time to produce.  Seems like I am always running behind in this crazy life I have created for me that I LOVE so much.  Did I mention I have 4 kids that keep me running all the time.  So here enters another chapter in my life and away we go.