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purchase, fiber, yarn, and spindles. You can build your own batt, learn to weave, spin or knit and crochet. You can also purchase baskets, handmade items such as ceramics, bags and hats, scarves. buttons...

Because....

I'm a ding-dong and cannot post pics and blog..... I'm doing several posts in order to show pictures of the store: Holiday yarns.

Here are my yarns that are being sold at the store!!! And this is a quilt (not sure who made it) that I just LOVE! It's from "My Fair Lady". Isn't it gorgeous??

A party at Holiday Yarns!!

Welcome to Holiday Yarns!!! Located in the Shoppingtown Plaza in Dewitt, NY. On the right is Jennifer VanValcar, owner of the store and master of dyers!!! She is my teacher and friend. We had a great time...... learning to dye, meeting Ravelry friends and getting the shop ready to open.

SKA submission...

So on April 6, 2009 I began to cast on for these socks. I've been wanting to participate in the Sock Knitter's Anonymous, Sockdown competion for awhile, but I can never seem to get it together in time.... shocker!!! Any who.... For this month, you had to pick a pattern on Ravelry that had less than 15 projects. This pattern is "Loops" and it didn't have any projects so I believe that I am the first. When I found the pattern, I remembered that it had been a suggested pattern for a sock club shipment that I had recieved from Tempted - sock club, the yarn was "Red Hat Society". So I got out the yarn and the pattern and cast on!!!!

I had to make some adjustments, such as: I used #2 circular needles and the pattern called for #5's , the pattern called for worsted weight yarn and of course, I used fingering weight. It also called for 48 stitch cast on , but it seemed to me to be a 15 stitch pattern repeat so I cast on 60 stitches....

I finished these about two weeks ago, but I just got around to taking the picture this morning so that I could post and therefore enter the contest. I hope I'm a winner!!! They have quite a few prizes to give away......

Velvet Elvis

Someone said they'd give me 50 pts for a picture of Elvis holding a Sock in progress!!!! How about a Velvet Elvis with a sock in progress?? HMMMMM????

Sockdown!! April

I can't explain why the pic on the left is so small and the one on the right seems normal!!!!

Anyways.... On Ravelry, in the Sock Knitter's Anonymous group, I am participating in my first Sockdown!!! It's a monthly challenge with a new theme every month. This month is the Unappreciated sock pattern or knee high's. I chose the unappreciated "loops" pattern that was suggested by Shelly of Loops, in Tulsa, OK when she sent this Tempted - Good Grrl club sock in the "Red Hat Society" colorway.

I started on 4/6/09 and i'm on the toe as of right now.... This pic was taken Friday night.
I'm hoping to start the second sock today and be done this week sometime.

Spinning....

I thought I'd tell you about the spinning I've been doing, or WAS doing.... I actually haven't spun in awhile!

First, the spindle. I had this created for me by Shannon at Spinsanity Spindles . Didn't she do a fantastic job!! It looks exactly like the picture that I sent her. And it spins like a dream...

Second, is the fiber. It's a Merino/Tencel blend that I recieved in a fiber club from Knit Fits. I have about 2/3rds of the 30z done. Not sure when I think it will get done. It's just something that I pick up from time to time. I do hope to use it as a sock yarn. The club came with patterns for socks also.

Speaking of sock clubs...... I will be announceing my first ever sock club on my Etsy site and on Ravelry next week. I'm doing this club with my good pal Bugaboo (on Ravelry) aka Stephanie!! We are pretty excited about this...

Tah Tah for now!