Something(s) Blue

 Inkwell

 This month's Cookie A Sock Club 2013's shipment.

Haven't decided which of Cookie A's patterns will

be cast on with this oh, so, beautiful blue,

but, you can believe that my feet will be pampered with this lovely.

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The Loopy Ewe is celebrating their 7th Anniversary.

TLE originally opened in St. Louis

and recently moved her operation to

Fort Collins, Colorado.

In celebration of seven years as a small business owner,

Sheri, owner of TLE, 

asked Malabrigo Yarn Company dyers to come up with a very special colorway. 

Their dyers  created this colorway that, IMHO, reminds me of blue jeans.

They named this blue in tribute to Sheri by naming this special anniversary celebration yarn after her.

How cool is that ! ! !

  

Sheri commissioned a shawl pattern created for this particular yarn.

 

 Pattern to be available only by purchasing this

 7th Anniversary Celebration Kit

of yarn and pattern.

Beautiful Blues ! ! !

Overnite we received some much needed rain.

Lost power during the very, very early morning hours,

but have been up and running 

ever since.

Today is Humpday

week's half over

as is September

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Willow

First a reminder.

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Willow Cowl

is a free pattern on Ravelry

click HERE

My Willow

is knit with Hazel Knits Yarn

in the Entice base:

Merino Wool, Cashmere, Nylon

I combined two gorgeous colors -

Land of Sweets

and Tropical Sunrise.

So soft, so cuddly.

I ABsoLUTeLY AdORe it ! ! ! ! 

It uses a skein of fingering weight yarn

I knit it in a little over a week.

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OMG, look hashtags ! ! 

I am on Instagram as GerryART

Have a loverly week ♥♥♥

hugs

back to the fiber-y goodness

Labor

Finished and Blocked !!

Ready for cooler weather. 

A wonderful blend of

Soft Merino Wool, Cashmere, Silk

Hand-Crafted Soap

by my friend Joanne

A cotton Spa Cloth

knit with natural cotton from Peru

Willow Cowl

knit with Hazel Knits Yarn

blend of Merino, Cashmere, Nylon

Colors Land of Sweets and Tropical Sunrise

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Fantastic weather.

Fun weekend/holiday

hugs

♥

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After

After finishing knitting and blocking

my Camp Loopy Project Three

Challenge was met.

Challenge being: knit any project using 800 yds

Here's my Gray Garden Shawl

designed by Anne Hansen

as it is blocking

I met the challenge PLUS 65 yards

for a total of 865 yards of

Shalimar Breathless

in Waterchestnut colorway

YAAA Hooo

There will be glamour shots shortly

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After dinner

there was time for some

'mindless' knitting

Isn't this colorful ! ! ! ! 

Sugar n Cream cotton in Rainbow colorway

Perhaps the beginning of  a Spa Basket 

for gifting in the upcoming months????

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Well Kids,

Summer has arrived 

here in mid-Missouri

Not terribly hot and miserable

but definitely WARM.

With lots of big clouds masking Mr Sol

giving relief from his intense attempt to fry everything.

Sat outside knitting another spa cloth for almost an hour but did not break a sweat.

So I am happy as can be with our Summer weather.

Take care ! ! ! !

Remember

theme for the next week

- -

Water and Sun Screen

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♥

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Red Worsted

Is this RED or What ! ! ! ! ! 

This red worsted weight yarn is just the match for a blog post I read last week.
It was 

Susan B Anderson's post

How I Make Worsted Weight Socks !

Guess what's on deck!

Just in time for the holidays coming up.

Btw, how is Christmas shopping coming along??

Oh,

did you notice

this yarn 
is

RED
!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looky, it's a Loopy Ewe and a flock of little Loopys

Too-cute tape measure and stitch markers.

Sheri at The Loopy Ewe thinks of every thing for knitters.

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Temp is beginning to creep into August
Low 90s
however, I did hear mention of rain
for Friday and overnight into Saturday.
We could use a inch or so.
How 'bout you?

hugs


 ♥

Gotta Loves

Gotta love Joann's Half Price Shelves

Saw these boxes on 

Hotazzknitter's Instagram post the other day.

Nicole aka Hotazzknitter, 

has a video podcast

Positively Knitting

that I thoroughly enjoy.

Wouldn't miss an episode for anything.

If you're into Positive-ity then

she's your gal.

Click on her link above.

Her Instagram post was truly enabling.

Couldn't resist.

Our local Joann's has a pretty good selection

and I've got mine.

It is summer time.

Even if the temps don't feel like it

soft serve ice cream is still

on the agenda.

Triple Berry Brownie - Midnite Truffle

yummmmm

Here I am doing what I love to do in the evening

or at any time for that matter.

One-at-a-time ! ! !   

Toe Up.

One Size #0 needle ! ! 

Just about ready for the heel.

No hurry on this one

just a little change of pace from my Camp Loopy projects.

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Are there signs of Autumn in your neighborhood?

hugs

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Hello, Autumn ???

Couldn't believe our eyes when we parked at Dairy Queen Tuesday afternoon.

Do ya see it???  

There it is ! ! 

An Autumn-Red leaf ! ! ! ! ! ! 

Could we experience an early Autumn???

Our backyard Sycamores

are dropping their leaves

already.

???????

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Yesterday afternoon

while leaving Barnes & Noble

we were treated to this view.

This past week's sky has been

filled with puffy whites

displayed

against a cerulean backdrop.

Completely Wonderful ! ! ! 

While at the beauty salon this afternoon getting my haircut

My hair stylist was just opening her UPS shipment

of

just-premiering

 O.P.I. fall collection of autumn color nail polish

I immediately fell for these three beauties

[and who wouldn't?]

Took them straight from the shipping box before anyone else could.

Here they are

that are front and center

on my makeup vanity.

Embarca-Dare-Ya,

In The Cable Car-Pool Lane,

First Date At The Golden Gate

Yep, you guessed it,

all referenced to San Francisco. 

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My haircut

I must be happy with the prospect of the hand-knitwear season arriving.  

: ^ )

hugs

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Mother

Mother's Love

♥

August 1915  -  October 1999

In My Heart

Always

♥♥

Shop Hop Soxes, Etc.

Sox knit with the yarn we picked up in Mexico,

Missouri

during our Quilt Shop Hop last month.

These were a pretty darn fast knit, considering:

a.] they were knit on Size #2 needles

as compared to the quite a bit smaller Size #0 that I have been using recently;

b.] combined these two pair used 534 yards ! ! ! ! ! 

That's a lotta yards

~ .3 of a mile

Gloria's

These were knit

2-At-A-Time

on one 40" circular needle

Toe Up

using a Gusset Heel

and a Ribbed Leg/Cuff

Debbie's with a very t-a-l-l cuff

During the same period Hubby's Hell Fire, Once Again

sox were finished and bound off !

Again, knit toe up, 

this time with Afterthought Heels. 

Using small sized needle,

this pair used 316 yards.

With such a tight fabric

as the result of using small needle size

these should last a very long time.

So fun to knit ! ! ! 

Here they are 

Soxes from the Shop Hop for the girls

and Sox for Hubby

Temp here is below 80 degrees F

today

Great temp for an August day.

Even had a small rain shower.

hugs

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whoops, do I spy a dropped stitch in the cuff?

Hemp 'n Cotton

Our most recent shipment of Bare Naked yarn club arrived ! ! ! 

The club involves yarn from nature.

We receive bare yarn,

not dyed.

It is spun directly from the animal or plant.

This month's treasure trove

is Hemp yarn [brown] 

and 

Cotton yarn [white].

The hemp is grown and spun in Romania

The cotton yarn is a special cotton grown on Peruvian trees that produce naturally pigmented cotton colors.

That's what the label reads. 

This month's designs are spa related

Face cloths from the cotton

Back scrubber from the hemp

I'm ready to cast on a face cloth or two

I'll show ya when I complete the first one.

RAIN ! ! ! !

Mercy, did the heavens open up yesterday evening.

For a solid fifteen minutes there was a downpour like I've seen only a few times.

I'm sure we received at least two-and-a-half inches.

The gutters were flooded to the middle of the street.

Lucky for us that we live in a hilly area and that we're not at the bottom of any hill.

Things drained fairly fast.

Well, I must cast on a face cloth and then a back scrubber.

Ta,

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What's New ! !

Our  Quilt Shop Hop last week proved to be just as wonderful as we thought.

Deb and I shopped from our lists.  .  . mostly.

Gloria went a long ways to build a Stash.

One item on my Wanted List

was to build my stash re:  Modern Quilts, more-or-less

This Riley Blake Layer Cakes [ a pack of 24 pieces of 10" squares ]

Small Cheverons

I plan on cutting 10" squares of this

Moda 'Sew Stitchy' by Aneela Hoey

with all those glass-headed straight pins scattered throughout the grey

to be used as alternate  blocks with the cheverons

A quilt top along the lines of a summer throw ?  ?  ?  ?

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Malka Dubrawsky

has been one of my fav designers

so when I spied this Charm Pack of   forty-two 5" squares

I COULD NOT RESIST

Will I be pairing it with this background fabric ???

I can not say.

All I can tell you is that it did call my name as I approached it

:  ^  )

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Deb brought this over the other day

saying we had purchased this on our quilt shop visit some months ago.

???? She insisted I helped pick this so I guess I did.

Hmmmm, maybe something I can include in my potholder making stash.

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hugs

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Some Accomplishments

Last week both daughters and I went on the local Quilt Shop Hop.

There were four shops in this hop

(or hop-ette)

all located to the north of us.

We visited all four

plus one other quilt shop

for a total of five quilt shops in a day.

Each of us had our own shopping list

and we pretty much stuck to them.

I'll have pics up later this week.

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HOWEVER,

there was another shop along the way

that I could not resist. 

It was a new-to-me shop.

Just happened to be a yarn shop

The girls and I were drawn to some pretty niffty sox and yarn.

As it turn out 

we each picked a fav color combo

for some handknit sox.

Just so the daughters won't think one of them is favorite,

mom decided to knit both girls sox at the same time

So here a pic of their sox

Deb's pick on the left

Gloria's on the right

Cast these on Friday evening and plan to have these two finished tomorrow.

If there an opportunity for me to knit during our Quilt Guild Meeting this evening, that is.

The second two will be cast on immediately after that/

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For my finished project

Here are the most current Cookie A sock pattern: TIBERIUS

and club yarn in the BLOOD ORANGE colorway

Yep, you guessed right!

This pair is for ME ! ! ! ! 

These are as bright as our mid-Missouri Summer Sun

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