Goes to show what can happen in five months

Well, I'm back. I guess. Not that I ever really went anywhere. Well, I kinda did. Argh. Let's start again.

Promptly into the New Year, I got fired from my job. Which caused me to have to move from my apartment and back home to my mom's house, and killed what little yarn budget I had. So, with that being said, I was not really in the best of places to be blogging about anything really, so I didn't. I Just sent out resumes and knitted. Alot. I start a new job on Monday, and feel much better about, well, everything! I'm hoping that i won't disappear from the blogosphere again.

So what have I been up too... a lot of knitting. Everything that was on my needles at last count is done, AND I even bought yarn for, and knitted my long awaited Lil Red Riding Hoodie. I don't have photos of it yet, since wearing it in May isn't really something that needs to be done since it's 60 some odd degrees out. I've got a good number of things on the needles now, two of which are sweaters. Come to find out, i really like knitting sweaters. I loved socks for a long time, being so easy to take everywhere and work on. But the sweaters are starting to win me over. I don't know if it's because I like how relaxing knitting for miles in the round can be, or if it's because Lorrine from A Good Yarn has been so kind as to teach me the sweater pattern for the past few weeks, in hopes that I can help her at the shop. Since I'm working now, I don't know what will happen with that, but I'll talk to her soon, see what the deal is. I'd love to still learn from her, and I'd love to help out, but I don't know how much time she will need from me.

I went to Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival for the first time last weekend.
Went with the Little Bro and Tamar. Ravelry was there, and I spoke to Jess, thanking her for my user pic sticker, since they had printed a bunch of pics and were going to hand out buttons to go with pics, but ran out well before Sunday, when I was able to get there. I also fell madly in love with this "mini" spinning wheel, called a HitchHiker. I'm soooooo getting one, once I get some of my back debt taken care of. I also found a super nice guy by the name of Pat Russo who restores old spinning wheels, and would be able to make me some bobbins. Eeeeee!

It's great that I can spend my first seven paychecks before I get them. *sigh*

It's begining to smell alot like X mas, if you know what I mean

For it being a holiday that i wanted to call out of, and feared that knitting would not be done, and that none of my presents were "good enough", it turned out not being that painful.

Guess who got a spinning wheel?

:-D

I'd have pics, but the wheel is at the DBF's house, awaiting a drive band, but will be at my house on Friday, and prolly taken on the road to West Virginia for the New Year. There looks to be a spinning store in Owings Mills, so well as Chesapeake City (where ever that may be). So we may be able to stop in and get some roving and such to play with while on the road. he, he. I got a pretty wheel :)

My mom got me a tea kettle and will be ordering me a boat load of books for Knit Picks, along with a ball winder. When I told her that I got a spinning wheel, she asked "do you still still need a ball winder?" She saw that in the the catalog, and she just thinks it's the "neatest idea".

My mom is not a fiber junkie, and when I took an interest in yarn at a young age, she took me to all our neighbors that she knew who knitted, crocheted, or needle pointed. And to their credit, they all let me watch and tried to teach me, and even gave me their left over yarn to play with and make Barbie items out of. But she never really took an interest herself. But she does brag about my knitting, and asks for blankets and sweaters. And since I don't have any Grandma types in my family, it's a bit depressing for me to not to have someone to share my passion with. I did find out that DBF's Aunt Janet knits and such, so that was nice on Christmas Eve, to have someone to talk to, and to Ohh and Aww over my new wheel :)

AAAANNNNDDDD, I got my Winterwonderland Coffee and Yarn Swap package. It came with some Cherry tree sock yarn, which I've been dying to buy, but can't since I'm being good :( And some Opal sock yarn that is named for the Blue Poison Dart Frog, so of course, me and my frog loving self is really excited to see how it lookes knitted up. And I got espresso coffee. What more could I want? (of course there is more - and everything had the cutest "snow kisses" design on it!!! Well, go look at the pic below!) And I know that my Knit it Forward buddy got her package and likes it. I'm still waiting on my Knit it Forward Item, and the holiday Swap item from the swap I'm hosting over at the Myspace.

So yeah. Over all, it was a good holiday. I'll be a lot happier once I get back for West Virginia. So I'm just faking thru work till Friday. *la sigh*

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying this time of year.