My lovely friend Ellie has started a KAL for Not Socks in the Chopped Tomatoes Ravelry Group. I cast on the first glove in the first week of Feb and I have been knitting it at the group meets, I am at the hand ribbing section on the first glove so I'm making some decent progress considering the amount of dyeing I've been busy with!
A few members of Cardiff Knitters are taking part, and I'm finding it so interesting to see how the pattern knits up in various yarns, and how people I know are responding to the way that I write my patterns. So far I haven't had any complaints, so I'm happy happy!
The KAL has no official start or end date, so please join in if you have an orphan skein of sock yarn that might have a pair of gloves in it's destiny...
Congratulations Jacie!
I'm pleased to announce that Jacie, also known as The Weasel Momma, has won the yarn-naming competition! I will send over the prize skein as soon as I know what colourway I should pack! I spent last night looking through all the entries and the word 'Heaven' kept popping into my thoughts...
Happy New Year everybody!
The Chopped Tomatoes Shop has had a HUGE update this morning, and I am kicking off the new year with new yarns and a competition!
I would like to have a name for this base yarn, which is 85% Superfine Wool, 15% Cashmere 2ply Heavy Laceweight... Because I will be stocking various laceweight yarns, each of them will need to be named otherwise my shop will be full of 'Laceweight #1, Laceweight #2' etc.. not very appealing! The winner whose name I pick will win a skein of aforementioned yarn in any colour from the Rustic Tranquility Collection:
Here are the rules:
- You may enter by posting a comment below, please make sure you enter a valid email address in the form so I can contact you if you win!
- You may submit as many entries as you wish, the more the better.
- Submission deadline is January 20th, 2010.
- Winner will be announced on January 21st 2010.. and his/her yarn will be in the post soon after that!
Now come on dudes.. I'm counting on you!
I had a brilliant Saturday at the Knitwitches KnitGarden party! The fabulous Eirwen from Knitwitches Yarns threw a terrific gettogether; lots of yarnies, delicious food, knit-oriented party games.. and a fascinator competition!
As you can see, Chaytan, my miniature crochet bear, helped me win 2 gloriously soft skeins of heavy laceweight pure cashmere yarn! I've been fondling them all morning..
I did take photos of everyone else's fascinators.. I thought they were beautiful, I just wished I had a little more patience to create flowers! (I have added links to Ravelry profiles of those I'm sure of..)