F.... is for fear, fun, fotos, fiber, and finally.

Well, Beverooni has struck fear into my heart over taking a blog break (plus reassured me that somebody actually reads this thing), so I suppose I'd better keep going! F is also for fun, so I thought maybe I'd talk about the envelope swap. I started the envelope swap (on ravelry) over a five day weekend, and at the moment we have over 200 member. I recently received my envelope from the first round from pookieandrom. It looked like this when I opened it....


Some stickers, more stickers, an awesome pattern, a little bag of buttons and a postcard! What an awesome envelope! I'm very pleased.

I've also been dying some yarn. This is a fairly lousy photo of the sock yarn I dyed.


And then, of course, I've been knitting. Mittens!

The pattern is gifted mittens, but I think there may be a bit of an errata in the woman's size. A couple of times the stitch numbers didn't match up. At the end, I had to overlap about two inches on either side for seaming to make them fit me...


That could be my fault though, seeing as my gauge was about half an inch off. :D

I have also been collecting Paton's Pooch to make a blanket for me. Because I cleverly decided to start AFTER it had been discontinued, I've been mostly getting it from Karma Yarn Swap, and from RAKs. This is my current collection:


I just LOVE the purple. The red was a Christmas present from my sister, I swapped for one ball of the blue/brown, the blue/white, and the blue/pink, but the purple and one ball of the blue/brown were RAKs from Stillhisangel. Thanks so much! I now have 7 cakes... I'm getting there. :D

I won!

Today in the mail, a package arrived. I had no clue what it was, but when I opened it, I got a big surprise! A pack of 10 50g balls of Wendy Peter Pan yarn, in pure white. I'd won a contest in Simply Knitting! I was so happy! But now... What do I use them for?

Yay! Spinning!

Alas, I did not win the Knitty contest. What? How does that work? The prizes were too cool for me NOT to win! Ah well. Well done to the person who did win! (Yes, I've forgotten the name already. Apologies)

Anyway, I'm going to learn to spin! I'm going on a course, five weeks, once a week for two hours. It covers spindle spinning, and various types of wheel spinning. I am happy!

More projects done!

I've finished lots of things this week. Firstly, there was the bag - my mom kindly did the sewing up for me. Above you can see the outside and the lining - very lovely (It's the white 
speckly one with the red velvet inside, if you were wondering) It fits a small knitting project very nicely.

Above there is also a small egg case - I put a creme egg inside for my sister Gracie's easter present. From a pattern in Simply knitting, as was the bag.

Another Simply Knitting pattern is the fingerless gloves, which worked really well. My first project on DPNs. I'm wearing them now, and discovering that typing isn't so easy. Ah well, such is life.

My current project is cell phone covers, and socks. Yup, I'm knitting my very first socks. I was going to try them in the Fall, but I got a sock knitting kit for Easter - beautiful yarn (a little scratchy, but I'm sure that will work out with wearing. So far I've just started the ribbing on the first one.

Experimenting!

I've decided that I like this layout better. I don't like scribe so much.

In knitting news, my fingerless mittens are flying along. I'd better abandon the computer in a few minutes to keep working. I might be able to finish one of these today, it depends. I also have two more cell phone covers to sew up - one brown, like below, and one a candy kind of fluffy pink. If I finish the mitten, and get those two covers sewn up (and maybe a third, if I finish 
the knitting), then I'll probably make another pink one, because I think those will go down well at school.

It was palm Sunday at church today, which was fun. I've just got my braces tightened on Friday, and had elastics put between my teeth, which is no fun.

There's not much going on this week at school. We've got Friday off, for Good Friday, and then Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It was only going to be till Tuesday, which was an inset, but then the clever authorities finally realised that because of Leap Day, we would be one day over the set amount. So, Tuesday is an official holiday, and Wednesday is the inset. I'm 
hoping to get my mittens finished, and I'm going to see if I can get some cotton yarn to take to Italy, because I'm making dishclothes for my Grandma while I'm there. Knitting mainly, but I'll probably do one or two crochet, so I can put them in my carry on and work on them while waiting for flights. I can't think of any way that I won't be allowed to carry on a stubby wooden crochet hook.

Cell phone covers

Recently I've been knitting cell phone covers. Some were gifts, but most were for sale. It went very well. Here's some of the ones I've made. I've made many others as well. It was really fun. I'm getting kind of bored with these, so I'm just going to
finish the ones ordered and some pink ones to sell next week, and then I'll move onto another project.