Christmas Yarn, Round 2

YarnBee Intrigue
This plum sort of color and sort of neutral pinkish color
This stuff is buried in the stash at the moment. Details later.

Its been a busy start to the semester. Its hard to believe that its already February. I've been knitting a wedding gift for a family member who may or may not read this blog, so unfortunately I won't have many pictures of that WIP until after the wedding. Hopefully there will be other, smaller projects soon.

I have been crocheting some grocery bag type things out of cotton recently. I'm sick of plastic bags! Its time to become more environmentally friendly. Sadly, my digital camera has decided to poop out on me so I haven't been able to take pictures. They're just plain cotton (think Sugar and Cream) string bags. I modified a pattern on the label to make the size I wanted and did a different type of handle. They're useful things! I hope I can show you pictures soon.

Christmas Yarn

Ironstone English Mohair
Mohair, Wool, Nylon
89 yds/ 40g ball
Some shade of purple
(pardon the mess, the cat got to this one before I could take pictures)

Berroco Danie

Rayon, Cotton, Nylon
Some shade of Purple

This isn't all of the Christmas yarn, but now that classes have started up again I might not have a lot of interesting knitting about which to blog. I'll space out the boring stuff with pictures of the Christmas yarn!

Right now the big project on needles is a wedding gift for my cousin who is getting married in April. I'm excited for him, but I've got a lot of work to do between now and then.

Coming Soon!

Clementine Shawlette in some purple stuff I got for Christmas (label-less)

I had some surprise travel plans added to my January and haven't been able to take pictures of the Christmas travel knitting until today. My apologies. I'm not quite up to plowing through all of the yarn details to post all of those pictures for you yet, but I promise they will come soon! For now, please know that I'm thinking yarny thoughts in your direction and happily working on my many UFOs.

Yarn Shenanagins

This is what happens when craft stores have sales:

Yarnbee Mosaic Twist
Colorway: Fruity

Bernat Haven
Colourways: Cream and Peach

And this is what happens when a bunch of seminarians swap yarn:

Bernat Baby yarn in a couple of colors and some Yarnbee Highland Thistle in Shetland (not pictured).





Good thing I also acquired a new bin for the stash!


I'd say the yarn swap was quite a success! Good times, fun yarn, and pumpkin pie was had by all! We're all gearing up for Christmas break (aka: uninterrupted knitting time). I've been making plans with Rosemary for our after Christmas crafting plans. We both have plans to work on large square shawls in January and we both have some sewing and scrapbooking projects to finish. I think we'll be able to keep each other motivated!

Survival of the food coma

What a week! My family has been here celebrating Thanksgiving and its been crazy. I had never cooked for 11 before. Now I have! It was a lot of fun, even though very little knitting got done. I did finish off the last few rows of the sherbet scarf and it went to the charity knitting box. I worked on Bristow a few times, but realized tonight that I had done a cable on the wrong row and had to rip back several inches.

This just goes to show that food comas and knitting do not mix!

My mom brought me Folk Shawls and then bought me some yarn from Hobby Lobby and Wal-Mart that was on clearance. I forget what kinds they were at the moment, but I'll get pictures and details up at some point. Cross my heart!

For now, just enjoy a picture of St. Francis enjoying the weather from this week.

I think its time

So, I'm pretty sure that my other friends are sick and tired of my knitting related posts on my other blog. Most of my friends don't understand my string obsession. They give me funny looks when I order them to "pet the yarn!" (Its just so soft! You must touch it!!) They just don't get it.

In the interest of still having friends who aren't string-obsessed, I will post knitterly things on this blog instead. I do hope you'll enjoy!

Knitting History:
My grandmother on my dad's side taught me how to knit when I was in high school. When she died a little over a year ago, knitting became a way to still feel connected to her. Now I'm 24 years old and studying to become a pastor and knitting is what holds me together when life gets stressful. After Grandma taught me knitting and purling and knitting in the round on dpns, I've pretty much taught myself out of books and magazines.

Current WIP list:
- Green Tea Raglan from IK
- Bristow from Knitty
- 1st of a pair of entrelac socks
- 2nd of a pair of plain socks
- Montego Bay Scarf from IK

Ravelry ID: Revseminarian. Look me up and we'll be friends!