shout out, yippee.

Ok, so after meeting and blogging about our meet, Courtney Kelly gave me a shout out on her blog The Pattern Factory , yay. Here is what she posted:



the picture was taken at hill country weavers in Austin, TX complete with my Ben Folds shirt and the little cloud that follows me everywhere since he is connected to my purse.

my style likes

Here are my favorite items from the following brands latest collections. I'm liking the retro 30's / 40's shoes, babydoll / 40's & 60's inspired dresses, simple & tunic tops, drapey thin jersey knit tops, wide legged pleated pants, the tie belt, the table cloth scarf, wing sleeves, buttons on tops, detail in tops / dresses lk. lace, patchwork and backs, vests, linen, cotton, denim, nutral tones of grey, blue, kacki, navy, brown, cream, faded sea foam green, dark mustard and splashes of redish orange, yellow and bolder greens. enjoy.

Chie Mihara

Totokaelo

Toast

Sessùn

Lover (Northern Hemisphere)

Matilde

Kuu Kukka

Coton

Built By Wendy

A.P.C.

Anthropologie

"Tuck", spinning and a little striped mole

Marigold smoothie mango, peach & fresh orange again from daily juice. A little striped mole plushie my little sister made for a class of hers to remind her of mole: a unit of amount of substance.

The "Tuck" back is finished. The yarn is Cascade Yarns 220 Heathers in 2440. It took almost 2 skiens. I knit the back with size US 8 needles.

I bought some new fiber the other day from Hill Country Weavers. A brown alpaca and a baby sky blue wool 2oz. of each this time. Up till now I've only spun the sliver wool. The alpaca is sooo soft and I like the way it seperates when I pull on the roving to thin it more than the how the wool reacts. Here is my drop spindle in action spinning away.



woops, the yarn escaped the groove. I hadn't even noticed when taking pictures.

Here is a days work of the right front of the "Tuck" vest by Norah Gaughan. The pattern is in the Berroco pattern boolet spring/summer 2009 Norah Gaughan "excess story" collection. The cover says story: flower child which is the other collection in the same booklet. The yarn is also a Cascade Yarns 220 in a grayish color. I'm using size US6 needles for the front pieces.

Jeero knits

I'm currently working on the "tuck" cardigan vest by Norah Gaughan. Jeero was sweet enough to helped me knit some of it today.

and another smoothie from Daily Juice; this time I tried Sugar Magnolia, Watermelon and Peaches mmm...

buttons and daily juice

I awoke this morning to a surprise "maya papaya" smoothie from Daily Juice from my loving husband. After sifting through my button box I chose the 22 buttons to use for my new "Forest" arm warmers.

The majority of the buttons were left over from my antique market shopping days from when I lived in France. These were from Sommières.

Yay, one arm warmer with buttons down & one to go.

Ruffled Neck Kercheif

Here is my finished "Ruffled Neck Kerchief" from boutique knits. I really loved this pattern, it made me love chevron lace.