A new home

I have a new home! I am excited to announce that I have moved the blog to www.fairieknits.com/blog. That's right, I have my own site. I will be rewriting the feed from this blog to the other over the next few days (as soon as I 1. have time and 2. figure it out) but you are welcome to just come over and subscribe that way. I will be posting my first post over there starting with today's WIP Wednesday post.

I have moved all of the blog posts from here over to the new site, so everything is in one place.

We aren't quite finished with the site yet, but Dani is wonderful and working on it with me! YAYAYAY! This has been a long time coming.

WWW.FAIRIEKNITS.COM/blog

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Well, I am in VA. The cord to my camera is at home.

And I don't have anything really anyway other than cute alpaca pics.

And tomorrow there will not be any masters swatches because I am sitting in the hotel and I am exhausted. I am thinking that I will eat dinner and pass out. I left home at 7, drove up, worked through lunch, left at 5:30, came to the hotel, checked in, changed, went to the hotel gym and worked out, came back and did some stuff online, ordered dinner and showered. now...well, I think there will be no knitting at all tonight. sad, but true.

Jack's a good boy!

Jack, a great Pyr, needs help! He needs to have surgery because sadly he was neglected a bit by a previous owner. In return for your donation toward his $8000 in surgery costs, there are fabulous prizes from The Merlin Tree.

As of 2/12 - they have raised $1500 - which is a great relief to his owners, but we can help! For every $10 you donate you are entered into a prize drawing - and if you help spread the word, more prizes will be thrown in the pot (read about it on the blog for full details). I don't have a lot of extra money at the moment (though I will have a little more soon - yippee - I got a raise!!!) but I sent them a little something and I hope that if you have a couple extra dollars you will think about it too! There is a prize drawing TOMORROW and one of the prizes is The Hitchhiker (I don't need another wheel but I WANT one of these!)! WEEEEE!!!!

Head over and read about Jack and maybe take a moment to help him out!

A great pattern for a good cause!

One of the bloggers I follow, Skyline Chilly, has designed an awesome sock pattern to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (go to her blog entry to see the pics since I don't wanna steal hers!).

For a $5 donation, you get this pattern and the knowledge that you are helping to fund research and education for this disease. You all know how important research and education are to me personally to find a cure for lupus and if I can help others, I am right there!

If you would like to help spread the word, you can! Check out how on Skyline Chilly's blog - and she has a contest going for helping spread the word! Do a good thing and win prizes - what could be better??? Oh, yeah, more knitting time!!!

hmmm...I wonder if I can CO just one more project this week...

Miles to go...

OK - not really - I have actually finished a few things this week, so you will be seeing them soon. Of course if the rest of February is like January it could be June, but I am trying.

Butterfly has a collar. All it needs are seams.

I have some more work done on the armwarmers I am designing.

I started a pair of felted clogs for a KAL. Here we have clog one knit, but the second sole isn't joined yet.

Cables and colors

Three more...I have no idea how many that makes. 12 I think. So that leaves 4 to go and a hat!

Hats for Alex

Handspun Monday is being interrupted to bring you this Public Service announcement.

Hats for Alex needs you! Yes, you! Got an hour or two to knock out a little knit or crochet project? Well, knit a hat for a little one! Alex was a sweet boy who should still be with us, but sadly, isn't. The kind people at the Omaha Children's Hospital did all they could for little Alex. In thanks, Pam has been heading up Hats for Alex.

This year, the Fairieknits podcast (shut up a podcast IS coming) is proud to support Hats for Alex as the official charity. Pam is having contests and all sorts of fun stuff this year.

Hats must be machine washable and for any any child size head. Not just babies.

The Charlotte knitters are already in on this - here are hats from Cristi, Corey and me. And May and Dani have sent hats as well already! (So 18 from Charlotte so far that I know of!!)

Even Calvin is in on the fun!

NIT HATZ NAO! KTHXBAI!

My goal for this year is to knit 2 hats per month and get them off to hats for Alex. If you are wondering - I am knitting 3 of the same hats each month and they will be in Ravelry if you want to see which ones I am knitting up. This month I knit the Baby Squash Hat from 101 Designer One Skein Wonders (or whatever it is...I am far too lazy to look at the moment).

Also - if you want to knit for your community specifically, contact Pam - Hats for Alex can go to any hospital and count toward the goal if you contact her and set something up for your community.

this is such a small kindness that means so much to families who have their little ones in the hospital and I encourage you to join in. For those of you going to SAFF, I would like to propose that we do this for this year and donate the hats to an area hospital.

Not your basic black!

When J.P. was in town over the weekend, he brought a little something to me. And it is too pretty not to share!

Cristi, J.P. and I put in an order with BMFA and had it delivered to him with the promise that he would hand deliver it.

And wow is all I can say. I got the silk thread in the Ravens colorway Tlingit which has hot pinks and chartruese with blacks over it and the greens and pinks just POP under!

In some lights it looks black...

then the tiniest movement and you get the pinks and purples and greens!

I have wanted to knit the Icarus shawl for awhile and I think that this may be the yarn for it, though I am open to suggestions.

Because this yarn is too pretty to sit in my stash for long.