Is This My Pony?

Jessa-Lu is having a contest! I've entered! Perhaps my streak will continue. And if any of you want to enter or just visit her blog and leave her a comment on the giveaway post and mention me....well, that ups my chances!

No pressure...after all, I already won once this week.

Whoop! Guess I Can't Say I Never Win Anything!

Well, this'll improve your mood on a random Wednesday morning! It was already shaping up to be a nice morning as I had taken the day off and slept in until 9 a.m. But then I checked my email and discovered that I've won a prize! A wonderful prize from Pigmint Yarns. (You have to scroll down a few entries to get to the Grand Opening Giveaway.) Look at the colors in that yarn! Are those my colors, or what? Look at that spotty-dotty bag....I love it! And there are stitch markers and needles and other stuff, oh my!

I already an the happy owner of Carol's book, so I told Danielle to keep it and use it in another give-away. If she sends it anyway, I'll have a give-away here. It's a wonderful book.

Gee, Wollmeise one day and a prize the next. Maybe tomorrow someone will give me a pony!

I'm As Human As The Next Knitter

So, I think I've mentioned Wollmeise yarn on this blog before...the fanaticism of its fans, the rush to buy it up, the absurd prices it goes for on eBay.

Well, I succumbed.

I was getting ready to leave work today and was in the process of shutting down my computer when, for some reason, I thought, "Let's check out the Loopy Ewe." Went to the website and clicked on "What's New"...and it took me a minute to realize what was there. "Hunh," I thought, "these color names are all in German. That's odd.....Wollmeise!!!" I threw two skeins into my cart and hit the order button as quickly as I could. And of course, my computer toyed with me by running just as slowly as it could. But I seem to have bought them before they were snatched out of my shopping cart. I got a bright, bright green and a red/fuschia mix. Or I think those are the colors I got. The green one may be bright blue. I'm pretty sure about the red. Their names tell me nothing: one is Raupe Nimmersatt and the other is Roter Himbeermund. Descriptive, huh? Babelfish translates them to "Crawler-type vehicle Nimmersatt" and "Red Himbeermund." Thanks, Babelfish!

I am anxious to see these in person and feel the yarn and work them up.

And hey! If I don't like them, there's always eBay.

(No, if I don't like them, I'll offer them up on Ravelry for what I paid for them, I think.)

Soothing My Soul

After running around this morning...bank, vet, grocery store, book store...I spent the afternoon at the Black Sheep. Ahh...yarny bliss. I spent some time chatting with Tracy and Renee and then there was a steady stream of customers. Met a nice young woman named Sarah, who was in with her mom. Sarah is new to Baltimore and may be coming to the Tuesday evening knit-alongs. She and her mom were nice. Nice afternoon.

And I've been bitten by the Baktus bug. Baktus is a neat triangular scarf that's taking over the knit world. It's done in sock yarn and we all know I have plenty of that. So I started one last night.


This is just some inexpensive yarn from Michaels...not wonderfully soft but I like the colors. If it isn't too, too tedious to knit, I could see knitting some of these for Christmas presents.

But I am still working on the tiny Elijah.


One tiny, blind, deaf amputee elephant!

We also stopped by a Kia dealer and looked at a Soul. Pretty cute little car though not as inexpensive as I would have thought a Kia was. Didn't take it for a test drive...that's in the future.

Free Books: On Hold

I was going to start offering up some books here, but since I last talked about doing so, I was named the CFC coordinator for my office. (CFC is like the United Way for Federal workers.) And one of the fundraisers that makes a good bit of money is a booksale. So I think I'll be putting a lot of my freebies towards that...but I'll probably have more to offer at some point. Stay tuned.