Happy October!

Can you believe it is already October?  I probably say that every month...but man, time does fly by sometimes!

I am going to start off with some Stash enhancements....look at these cute PJ bottoms....I love the little rectangular sheep!

I also bought some self striping yarn from Lilliput....Love these Halloween colors..the first one is called Trick or Treats and the second one is called Jack Russell - O'Lantern.

Then, my yarn from Desert Vista Dyeworks came in....the first is Zombody driving the school bus, and the second is Halloween Moon!  I really want to do "The Officially Unofficial Desert Vista Dyeworks Monthly Sock Club" next year....so I need to have 12 skeins of this yarn...these 2 put me to 6 skeins...I have 3 more on order which gets me to 9...so will still need 3 more some time within the next year.  :)

Then....being that Darlened LOVES knitting with black yarn (yes, this is sarcastic), we decided to make an Esjan in all Black....so that yarn came in...but I am not sure when we are casting on.

Oh, and I won some yarn from Expression Fiber Arts....my good friend, Shawa..who is KNIT4BEER on ravelry and social media, tagged me in this instagram giveaway and I won!  So, this red and blue yarn should be on its way to me.

I am also expecting my VIOLET Northern Lights needles to come in today.....I am super excited about these......isn't this color just so FABULOUS!?!?!

Okay, now on to the knitting.....I think I have mentioned that I am doing a pair of socks a month with my friends Melissa and Tami...well, a few other people in Darlene's Bags By Awesomegrannie group wanted to join...so we made an official thread here.....This month we are doing Hermoine's Everyday Socks...but you are not required to do a specific pattern each month....just knit with us :)

I also worked a bunch on my Esjan...I know it does not look much bigger, but trust me...there are a ton of stitches on that needle.

Then I needed to work on the Socks on a Plane socks for Loopy Academy:

That is all for the knitting...When Jaime and I went to Hot Rod night I met a girl that asked me about my knitting and I showed her a picture of the sweater I knit for Paige last year....Yeah, she asked me how much I would charge to make one.....Here is my favorite tin that just about sums up knitting for me :)

Well, that is it....I know, not too much....hopefully more this week (I think I say that every week).....Happy Happy Happy Knitting!!

My baby is growing up!

Hi everyone!  How has your week been?  Mine has been crazy.  My baby youngest child is Paige....so at the age of 19, she is my baby!  But she is growing up....she went out of town this past weekend...she came home late last night....she has never been on a plane....and she was going to CO to visit a friend and traveling all alone......so she is growing up alright!

Her flight left Austin at 6:20 am.....so we had to get up at 2:45 to leave the house by 3:45 to get here there early......She made it to her gate....and got a window seat.....and made it all the way to CO to see her friend, Tara (on the left)....when she came home, her flight was delayed 4 1/2 hours so I had to pick her up at the airport at 3:35 am.....

This made for a very busy week for me.....Early last week, Antonio was sick....he was better by Wednesday....on Thursday, Paige needed to bring me my car back so they stayed for dinner, then her and Antonio spent the night Friday (so we could get up so early on Saturday)....and I have had Antonio all weekend.  His uncle did come pick him up Saturday night to Sunday afternoon.....why do I mention all of this?  Because Me + Antonio = Very Little Knitting!  OK, on to the knitting!

First, I worked like a knitting ninja to finish Paige's hat for her to take to CO:

Other than that....all I really worked on is socks......  The Hiya Hiya Sail Lace II socks:

My Loopy Academy Socks:

And some new socks for a Hiya Hiya KAL.   The pattern is called Team Spirit and it is colorwork....I am using some funky colors, so the colorwork does not really 'stand out' but I think once I get a little farther, it will.

This is the yarn:

This is the first sock:

I did have some stash enhancements.....I love the bright colored yarn above so much, I got some more...there was a sale and I could not help but buy more of them....it is Regia:

While I was buying Regia, I saw they have a new yarn with Outlast....which is supposed to be temperature controlling....so I got some green and blue solid to make some socks with (some time in the distant future):

This past weekend was the Dallas/Ft. Worth Fiber Festival....and I have a few friends that went. They are so awesome they texted me pictures and bought some yarn for me (and I paid them back of course).....it is nice to have friends willing to spend your money.....Miss Babs has two new yarn bases.  One of them is called Killington.  It is a sportweight and it has 700 yards...85% merino and 15% silk!  It is heavenly!  I got two skeins of Bat Sh*t Crazy to make Toujours by Joji Locatelli and one skein of Mayhem because it looks like biker chick with purple...I just loved the colors!

I also had them snag me a couple of skeins of Kama Sutra from MustStash Yarn.  I love all of Stacie's self striping yarn!  I got two because one is for Darlene :)

My pink yarn that I ordered for the Miss Babs Tour came in too!

More turtle purl yarn to make burberry socks for my sister and niece.

And a friend of mine snagged some Lollipop yarn, so she let me trade yarn for this skein of Home Grown....reminds me of the Zac Brown Band song....Homegrown!

I participated in the DCS Podcast Pigskin Party and I won a skein of yarn from Lilliput....the blues and greens are not really my color....but it is beautiful!

This past weekend was the Dallas/Ft. Worth Fiber Festival....and I have a few friends that went.  They are so awesome they texted me pictures and bought some yarn for me (and I paid them back of course).....it is nice to have friends willing to spend your money.....I do not have the greatest pictures....so you will have to stay tuned for next week (or I may blog mid week) to see the goodies I got.

Oh, and I found some "Knitting Girl" socks that I just had to buy:

Lastly.....I have been in the mood for a new purse....I got my tax return and have been eyeing a few bags....a friend of mind suggested I go to the San Marcos Outlet Mall stores to see if I see anything I like....it is about an hour one way...but it was worth it.  I got this "Weekender Bag" that is meant to be used as a 'bag' but I will use it as a purse...the color is a beautiful periwinkle....but a little more towards the blue side than the purple side.....it is hard to describe....I also got a matching wallet!

Well, that is about all I have......I did finally get some pictures of Celeste modeling the sweater for me....and I am including the pictures of the puzzles that Antonio and I made about a hundred times this past weekend :)

Happy Happy Happy Knitting!