New craft podcast to check out

Check out this brand new podcast: At the Kitchen Table

Deb is a fellow PDX Knitblogger and crafter who owns a farm with bunnies, goats and chickens!

I cannot wait for her next episode!!

Mmm, chocolates

Yummy

Ernie and Pearl

Pearl (my angora rabbit) is madly in love with my cat Ernie! Can you believe it??

Here's some proof!

Fetching

fetching

I finished my first pair of fingerless mitts! It only took me a day of knitting to make both of them. The magical part was making the thumb!!

The pattern is from knitty.com.

OFFF Haul

Holy cow, I didn't post about my Oregon Flock and Fiber haul?? Well, this is totally a better late than never situation. I think that I posted on the OFFF ravelry group, but forgot to blog it here.

This is what I walked away with!
4 skeins of Blue Moon Socks that Rock
2 Blue Moon patterns
1 skein Fresh Yarn sock yarn
4oz Knitted Wit merino
2 oz angora fiber
8oz Sari Silk fiber
blue nylon fiber
1oz batt - thanks to a fellow PDX Knit blogger
a Niddy Noddy
a mini basket

And an Ernie cat that is hamming it up.

Here's a pic of me at OFFF with gail, I"m just showing off my blue moon stuff (photo by Angela).

Mason Dixon (Oct 17)

Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne were in Portland a few weeks ago to talk about their new book "Mason-Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines" That same day I was driving back from a week long trip and I made it a point to be back in time to see them. They did a slide show talk on how they met and how they developed this book. It was pretty funny. The one lesson that struck me was to "Pull from the tangle" (You know that big knot you get in your yarn when you are knitting and you can't get it undone), the term basically means to just deal with what is going on and to pull from the tangle and keep going.

Check it out, I got my book signed and stamped!

They even brought the samples photographed in the book for us all to fondle!

Me and Kerin wearing the "Pardon Me" wigs

Yeah, I'm a little late blogging about this book signing, but better late than never right??