Fiber and felt

While running errands today I decided to stop in at my favorite little fiber shop A Weaver's Yarn, found online here http://www.littleshopoart.com/ . While there I picked up a couple of ounces of corriedale top and a book Creative Felt by Angelika Wolk-Gerche. I do not know how I have lived without this book for so long. Susan is a genius at helping you find exactly what you need that you never knew you needed. While definitely a luxury at 18 bucks for a relativly short book, it is worth every penny and not even an hour later Baby J and I have already made a pair of felted Mushroom slippers out of it. With our little twist of stripes instead of dots this project was fun and relatively quick to do.
A must have for felt crafters everywhere!

Spring Thaw

Well I haven't been around lately and I will explain why shortly, not that I think anyone is really reading this yet so......
Fairbanks is finally starting to thaw out so I have been taking the kids outside to play quite a bit and besides some mud on the floors I think I am enjoying their outside time more than they are. Being my childrens are 4 and 2 yrs old I still have to go outside with them and have been getting quite a bit of knitting done while they are splashing in puddles and throwing rocks at each other.
Last month I got to experience to joy of having my gallbladder removed and the only interesting thing I have to say about that whole ordeal involves lots of Percocet. Not really ready to go there though.
Also have decided to homeschool Baby J for Kinnygarden and looking forward to the curriculum fair going on next week. I can't wait to get some work books and start schoolin her. No one in my family is really supportive but seeing as they are all certifiably insane, I have decided to ignore them until the bring me a clean bill of mental health from a PHD.
That's all for now, be back whenever.
ETA My two year old boy made me hug and kiss his potato chip before he would take a nap, crazy must just run in the family.

MMMMMalabrigo

So, it turns out I didn't felt the Malabrigo to bad at all. And now it is becoming mittens. Really need to steal those batteries so I can post pictures.
Yesterday our family spent the day baking cookies at a friends house. Yummm, Christmas cookies can only truly be enjoyed at 15 below zero. The kids had a blast running around on Danielle's hardwood floors and I had a blast making fun of her hangover! Oh yeah, and we made the cookies in North Pole AK. How frikken great is it that my kids get to make christmas cookies in Santa's hometown.
Yeah, thats all I got right now. Mittens Mittens Malabrigo and Cookies, oh my.

Dye-ing

Something I forgot to put in my last post

I home dyed some MMMMMMMMMalibrigo yarn yesterday and it FELTED!
Shite, oh frikken well, it isn't Completely felted, so I suppose I will make slippers, mind you, not what I wanted to make, but now I get to see what FELTED Malibrigo feels like.

Holiday Knitting

I have thrown in the towel on my holiday knitting. Those people that were getting socks are now getting something felted, probably mittens. Grrrrr, I am more than a little bit upset I let myself get so far in the hole on my list but anywhoot here is the darned list- (posting it here will make me more accountable, right? )

Mom- Dishrags
St. Dad- Felted mittens
Sandy- either mittens or a hat, I haven't decided yet
Dad-coffee cups and matching washcloths
Tony-felted slippers
Andrea-Hat, scarf and bag- all finished!
Dan-Felted Mittens
Liz- Hat, shirt(iron on transfer)-also finished!
Babies- no sew fleece blankies-Done!

So as you can see I have like, ummm, half my list to do!
Must go knit
Must not cast on anything unrelated to list


Pssshaw, like that is going to happen.
No sew fleece blankies for everyone!

Cats

Yesterday I took Dot to the pound. I know, awfull pet owner, but, really I have good cause. That evil little bitch chewed on my Ashford spindle. Yep, and that was just the straw that broke the very patient camel's back. I let that cat own my husband and hate me and my children for two and a half years. I should have taken her to the humane shelter in GA when I found her on the sidewalk outside that laundry mat. Really I am heartbroken. She was the coolest cat, however, I could not excuse the chewing and shitting on the rug in the bathroom.

Anywhoot, in knitting news, I am working on some felted mittens for a friend and they are working up wicked fast. find the pattern here http://spinderellas.com/patterns/mittens.html
I will post pictures after I rob some batteries from my daughter video game for the camera.