Maranatha Alpaca Farm

Went to the local Alpaca Farm today for the first yearly Alpaca shearing. It was so much fun to see all the cute Alpacas. I also purchased my first roving. I signed up for their dying class and also got information on what could be wrong with the spinning wheel I borrowed from my friend. My friend let me borrow her Louet S-10 spinning wheel, but I couldn't get the yarn to wrap around the bobbin. Turns out I need to replace the drive band and tension band. If those fixes don't work they offered to have me bring the wheel over so they can take a look.
Next weekend I am going to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, I am so excited.

Gift knitting, gift knitting, and yes more gift knitting

I haven't been blogging, since honestly I can't talk about my knitting. Currently I am knitting a bunch of surprises for people. I swore I would get an early start so that it's stress free and then I have the other half of the year to knit for myself. I did finish another cardigan, an easy one the Shalom, I haven't been able to take a good picture. It was a very fast knit, took me about 5 days.
I am very excited to go to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival in less than two weeks. I am going with my friend Pam and we will leave here Friday (I am driving so no car knitting for me) and will stay till Sunday.
Sorry about this boring post I just wanted to check in. Hopefully after the MDSW I will have some goodies to talk about.

Week 8 and 9 Delancey Cardigan KAL

I am finished!!! Yay with a couple mishaps I finally made.

Here is a close up of the buttons

And the back

It was a lot of fun to knit and I can see myself knit another one. I am glad I went down a needle size and a clothing size, it fits perfectly.

Week 7 Delancey Cardigan KAL

This week I finished the KAL goal by Tuesday, holy cow. That went really fast. Well here is a picture of the cardigan with both sleeves finished yay.

Week 6 Delancey Cardigan

I finished my first sleeve and got started on the second. At first I ended up making my sleeve too short even though I tried it on, so I ripped out the cuff, which is only 10 rows, and added 20 rows, yes it was that short.

The joy of Podcasts and Loopy Ewe what are you doing to me?!

So a little bit of back story of how I found podcasts. Me and my fiance work at the place and we are allowed to listen to our ipods, well I was complaining to him that I am running out of music to listen to. He told me that he listens to podcasts about his video games. I then went on itunes and oh my goodness there are sooooo many podcasts. I started with just one and then she would talk about other podcasts and I am trying to get caught up with 4 now and I have many others on my list. The difficult part is getting caught up since a lot of them been around for a while and I am OCD about having to start on episode 1.

They also talk a lot about The Loopy Ewe. I am now knitting a scarf for the Loopy Ewe 1st quarter challenge out of Malabrigo Silky Merino in the Stonechat color way and of course I bought that on their website. Your first 5 orders they give you little presents, I received a knitting needle inventory card and some sample yarn and a personal note, which I really appreciated.

Week 5 Delancey Cardigan

Ugh, this was not my week. I misunderstood the way to pick up the stitches for the sleeves but thanks to Allyson from Sweatshop of Love I figured that out. Then it went well for a while yesterday I was almost at 16 inches this weeks goal and this morning I realized I only done the decreasing twice instead of the 6 times I should of done it. So I ripped from row 65 to 31 and even after that I had problems all my fault my brain just wasn't here today. However I finished this weeks goal yay.

I also finished my secret knitting, you can see a picture on my ravelry page.