honeymoon yarn haul!

November 10, 2015 by 3 Comments

yarn shop happiness!

My husband Chris and I honeymooned in Asheville, NC.  It’s a beautiful mountain town with lots of great shopping and dining and sightseeing, and we went right as the leaves were turning colors on the Blue Ridge Parkway (a very scenic drive).

Of course I saw a yarn store and we HAD to go in and buy celebratory yarn:

malabrigo yarn

The yarn winder in the store got clogged with lint so we left before they wound the last ball of the Malabrigo Sock (100% Merino) in colorway 121 Marte.  The bright yarn to the right is Malabrigo Rios (a worsted yarn that’s also 100% Merino) in colorway 850 Archangel.  Below that is more Rios in colorway 043 Plomo.

Malabrigo yarn is great, and I don’t get a chance to buy it in person very often, so I was very happy to find this store!  I have plans for the worsted already but the sock was an impulse buy.  Fortunately I’ve already made a Christmas gift out of it (which I can’t share yet) and am also working on a cowl with the leftovers.

The yarn shop also had Mirasol Yarns, and I REALLY wanted to buy some Nuna and Llama Una, but I figured I’d spent enough on the 9 Malabrigo skeins, so I’ll save those for another time (but by golly were they SUPER DUPER soft)!

Well, that’s all for today, I’ll show more about what these yarns turn into soon. Thanks so much for stopping by!  Let me know if you’ve tried Malabrigo before, and what you think!

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I’m getting married today!

October 17, 2015 by 19 Comments

I wrote this in advance, of course, but I wanted to let you guys know what’s going on!

My fiancé Chris and I are getting married at 1:00!  I’m so excited!  My maid of honor is Chris’ sister (whose name is also Hannah) and his best man is his best friend Jamie.  That’s all the attendants, so we’re trying to keep things as easy as possible!  We’ll sing a hymn during the service and some of my favorite organ pieces will be played (my dad is even going to play the hymn), but for the most part it’ll be short and sweet.

The reception will be at a large, beautiful home in the area, and we’re having mulled cider and pies instead of the traditional cake and punch, which I think is going to be great!

For our honeymoon we were going to go to Charleston, but as some of you may know, there has been some bad flooding there as well as here in Columbia over the past week and a half (we were very, very lucky to have power and running water the whole time and that our house stayed dry), so we’re trying to scramble and re-do our plans — I think we’re going to Asheville, NC instead, which should be beautiful this time of year!

I’m taking off work from the 15th through the 28th (I’ve saved up a lot of vacation hours!) and therefore I probably won’t be posting much during that time.  I do have some things I’ve made already but haven’t had time to photograph and post about (or even block, because we’re under a boil water advisory still and I don’t want to use gross water on my newly made items!), so there should be plenty of things to share when we get back, including pictures (when we get them)!

Thanks for all your well wishes, and I’ll be back soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

-Hannah

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fun containers (yes, containers)!

October 13, 2015 by 8 Comments

How do you store your crochet and knitting stuff?  I like the practical but I also really love the unusual, especially combined with sentimental, and that perfectly describes what I keep [some of] my hooks in next to my armchair:

new header image

It’s an old plant frog, I think they’re called, and it’s made by Camark (a now closed pottery company in Camden, Arkansas, where a family member of mine used to work).  It’s special to me and I’m so happy that I can use it for something I love!  The mug to the left was my grandmother’s, so there’s lots to love in this picture for me (that’s why I made it the new header image for this site a few weeks ago!).

I do use a more practical zippered pencil pouch and a zippered knitting needle pouch for projects on the go, as well as a little tin with my needles and some stitch markers, but this is so much cuter at home and really adds some personality to my storage, hehe.

What do you use to store your stuff?  Do you have any neat containers of your own?

That’s all for today, thanks for stopping by!

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WIP update

October 3, 2015 by 11 Comments

Aside from the 3 hibernating projects that have been around for ages, I’ve got 5 projects going on (and have a Ravelry queue a mile long)!  Please tell me I’m not the only one who does this, haha.

First is the Harry Potter scarf that I still need to finish and write up the pattern for:

Harry Potter knit scarf

And then there’s the Citrus Stripe Blanket:

citrus stripe blanket

Then there’s the Sugarfrost Stole:

Sugarfrost scarf begin

And a Wolf River sweater (I’m thinking about doing the back in stockinette instead of doing this pattern again, just to make it a little easier), but I haven’t even posted about that yet.

Finally there’s the Paulie cardigan that’s been years in the making:

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Gosh, I have a lot going on.  And I’ve just gotta get to starting more — my yarn stash is getting ridiculous.

Well, that’s all for now, thanks for stopping by!

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stitch markers: what’s your preference?

September 30, 2015 by 5 Comments

The other day a little package came in the mail with some new stitch markers (in small and large sizes) and little tins from Fripperies & Bibelots:

stitch markers

As you can see I got hearts, squares, and raindrop shaped markers, which I was concerned about when ordering — what if they weren’t practical, just cute?  Fortunately they are very practical, and here’s why:

  • They’re extremely lightweight
  • The small sizes are not bulky when on small needles
  • You can mix and match shapes to indicate the beginning of a row, etc.
  • The metal is sturdy but thin, so they lie flat against the needles (allowing for more ladder-free knitting, if that makes sense)
  • They’re inexpensive
  • They’re snag-free

I may be thinking too much about it but what do you look for in stitch markers?  Did I miss any qualities that I should be looking out for?

That’s all for now, see you soon!  Thanks for stopping by!

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