It came!, It came!!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!

My swap pal's package came, and I was in utter disbelief!!! She sent me so many wonderful things, I can't even believe my eyes! She sent me a sweet tea cup, all my own. Lots of VERY GOOD tea, my FAV cookies. Wonderful chocolate, and a wafer chocolate cookie. Also some scrump-tea-umptous truffles!! I can't wait to use all of this wonderfulness at my next Stitch and Bitch!!

The yarn was so beautiful I almost passed out!! There were FIVE!!!!!!!!! skeins of WONDERFUL noro yarn. It's one of the most delicious purples I have ever seen!!! I couldn't help myself! I've already knit up a LONG scarf, AND a very WARM hat with the yarn. I'm going to post about it when I have good pics of it. Until then, take my word for it, it's supremely wonderful!!

Thank you SOOO much Angie!! And keep warm everyone! It's starting to get COLD now!

Stitch & Bitch

Doesn't this look fun!! My mom and I get together ( and some times little sis, who's learning how to knit), and have our very own "stitch and bitch". Or as we like to call it "stitch and watch" as we are usually watching a movie, not bitching. ( I said usually, not always, lest my brother and dad see this and say otherwise. :) ) We try to get together at least twice a week.



We ended up in the dining room this time, sometimes we are in the living room. It depends on what's going on. Sometimes it's morning, sometimes it's really, REALLY late. We always have a good time. We watch all kinds of movies. Our FAVORITE is LADIES IN LAVENDER. We also like to watch CHOCOLATE, MEET JOE BLACK, AUTUMN IN NEW YORK, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (A&E) , YOU'VE GOT MAIL, etc.,etc. This time we were watching AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, and PERSUASION by Jane Austen. She is my favorite author, all her books are just wonderful, and they make excellent movies. We usually use this time to watch "chick flicks" so that we don't bore our boys. We most recently watched OUT OF AFRICA, and it's very good. Meryl Streep is one of my MOST favorite actresses.




We always have our fav books laying around, even if we aren't using them, they are good inspiration. We also use this time to look through new books and plan our yarn shopping!! The books of the day were WEEKEND KNITTING, and KNITTED BABES, which I am currently using. My mom always has lots of ELIZABETH ZIMMERMANN books close at hand.




And of course we always have our most recent knitting projects and our TEA!!!! Sometimes if we are being really bad we will have some "treats". Sometime if we are being really good we will have my famous coconut macaroons. I'll post pictures later of me making them. I got the recipe from the book PURE FOOD AND WINE. It's one of the "Cook" books I go to most often. Well, off to make more macoroons, and another stitch and bitch!! Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Knitters Tea Swap

I'm sooooooo excited to be doing the KTS!! I have my pal and I'm ready to shop. I'm including some more pics of my cups and the sweeteners I use, if I use any. Mom and I love to vintage shop for "shabby chic" cups that look pretty. I love that they don't match, but coordinate. I LOVEEEEE dark chocolate, and shortbread cookies (but I only have shortbread once in a blue moon). Especially the really simple buttery ones like Walker's brand. You can really taste the butter in them. I like any kind of tea, but I have to be careful not to drink too much black tea. As much as I love it, I get the gitters and look like a "druggie"! ( it's actually quite funny for everyone else to watch!). Caffeine never used to bother me, until I quit drinking coffee, now I can tell when I've had too much, as can everyone else. I love to drink any herbal tea, it's sooo good and really clean tasting. I can drink herbal tea all day, and never get sick of it (and many days I do). My Grandma found out how much tea mom and I drink and she bought us an electric water heater. It's awesome!! It heats the water so fast, and has a very pleasant little "ding" when it's done. It even has a light and a viewing window on the lid so you can watch the water while it heats up ( ok, I'm very easily amused!! ) I love the color purple, but I also love the colors tan, white, black, gray and red, especially when they are all together. They look so chic. I noticed that vogue knitting had some nice "gray" patterns this season. My favorite yarn is Rowan, but I also love ANY of the Manos del Uraguay yarns and the Noro yarns. I love all yarn. I heard about some "Organic" wool yarn, and have been wanting to go check it out, as I'm into all that healthy granola-ee stuff. ( I'm kind-of a health freak) Well happy swapping everyone!!!!

Christmas gifts Pt. 1

So, this is my scarf in progress and finished and ready to send. It's a Christmas gift, Shhhh :) ( one down, about 30 more to go, hehe) for my uncle Bill who loves purple, just like me. The yarn is Noro Kureyon, color 148. I used the pattern from Last Minute Knitted Gifts ( the mens cashmere scarf ) but, I made it wider and didn't use cashmere. I like the colors, it's purple, and not a girly purple. More Christmas gift pictures to come!

Time Flying

WOW!! How time flies!! I can't believe it's been this long since I've been back to post a blog. Well I have been knitting up a storm. ( in beween guests and at night when there isn't anyone around to "interrupt" ) Right now I'm working on all my Christmas gifts. My LYS ( Knit Happens ) had a HUGE sale, so I bought waaayy too much yarn for all my gifts. I'm loving all the knitting I'm getting to do. I'm having trouble deciding which project to do first, so I have too many going on at once! It's finally starting to cool off here (metro D.C.) and all the tourists are thinning out!! (YEAH!) Also, school started again, so looks like it's safe to go to Starbucks again without getting run over by mobs of "children-on-way-too-much-coffee". My (younger) sister starts her ballet season again soon, so while I wait during her class I get lots of "built in" knitting time! ( that is if we're all still here and not washed away by all the rain) My dober-girl, Emma, is very very sad about all the rain. Dobermans, for those who don't know : ), melt in the rain. So, it's been fun going in and out, in and out, umbrella ( for her), towel and rain boots in hand trying to get her to "GOOOOO POTTY ALREADY!!" Now, don't get me wrong, we need the rain, my herbs will glady tell you that. But, Emma and I both will be happy when it slows down, or at least drys out between flooding days! I'm going to try to get some pictures of my "BIG BAD DOBERMAN" melting in the rain, it's very cute.

Hello

So, this is my first post. I was having so much fun looking at everyone elses blogs that I wanted to try my own! I have lots of cute pictures to post, and as soon as I figure it all out I'll be posting way too many pictures! I am an avid (beginner) knitter, who would always rather be knitting in Paris. I live in Washington, D.C. right now with my family and pets, ( a very young diva doberman named Emma and a VERY sophticated fluffly "FRENCHMAN" persian cat, TRUFFLE. Well actually his name is Sir Geoffery Henry Truffle von CIEl, but anyway!! ) and WAY to much yarn and all of the French things I could get my hands on as well as the things I brought back from Paris. My mom and I ( and my brother, Jonathon, who's quite a connoisseur himself ) also have quite a tea stash as well ( and it is growing daily, all by it self I'm sure : ) ) . But, we do also enjoy a good strong black coffee or espresso , possibly with one lump of VERY good French sugar!! ( I blame that habit on Paris!! I'll have to post a picture of my shamefull sugar stash. ) Well much more to come, I'm going to go figure out how to post pictures now!