new tattoo and a ride......

On Friday the hubs and I rode our motorcycles up to Troy, NY for tattoos! This one is mine. It's a Viking Wolfhead..... I found a pendent in a mag that we get and thought it would make a great tattoo. Since most of the hubs tats are viking type stuff, I thought it would be a good symbol instead of getting his name branded on my body!! When I asked him if he ever thought of getting a tattoo to symbolize me, guess what he said? "Nope". Shocker!!!! That's the hubs for ya! Anyways, it was a great ride. We left around 10am and got there around 1pm. It was my first serious highway ride and bigger city type riding.... lot's of heavy traffic. We didn't get home until 10:30pm and I was freezing, stiff, and sore! Also being kindof a baby too!! All and all the hubs says i'm doing great and is still gonna "let" me go on the "south" trip in October with him and the nephew... I feel so privileged!!!! We're also planning on a Social Distortion concert at Northern Lights in October also. Lot's 'O fun planned for the fall!!!!

Let's get ready to rumble........

....... the name is Twiggi Titti Twister and I'm entered in the Super-Heavyweight, Semi-Pro, Flying Clothesline event!!!! I'm going to try and finish SIL, Liz's sweater.... The event is for your team to finish as many WIP's (works in progress) as possible. I'll be lucky if I can finish this. Although I do have the back done and part of the front....
So it seems that the July sock for the "Knitting Purls Indie Sock Club" is somewhat succesfful. I've gotten two replys on the thread saying that they like the socks and are knitting them as we speak (read). We've also had some very good responses about the Summer Sock Club by Twiggi Knits and Stephanie...

Happy 4th O'July to ya!!! I'm off to a Drop Kick Murphy's concert in Canandaigua, NY this evening!!!!

Ravelry friends.....

Here are some of the Ravelers that showed up....some of them all the way from Ohio!!! There is SwordsandSpeers, dmcubed, and enigma (she's from New Hampshire). Some other ladys from the CNY group came also.

You can......

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......