Holiday Sale!

Hey everyone!

It's now officially my favorite time of year!  To share the love, I'm offering 10% off at my Etsy shop when you use coupon code HOLIDAY10 at check out through this magical season :)

I've already sold quite a few things, but am planning to make more so keep checking for more fun, handmade stuff!

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving and are starting off the Christmas season well!

Holiday Crunch Time

It's that time of year!  When everyone starts thinking of the holidays!

What does that mean for me?  Extra projects.  I have found myself full of special orders, ideas/plans for my work's craft fair, and on top of it all, I'm hoping to get some Christmas presents finished.  Luckily, I started working on Christmas gifts as early as last January, so I've already got a fair amount of them done.  Now I'm just on the last minute ideas.

Meanwhile, I have 3 orders I'm trying to finish up before Thanksgiving (if possible).  I know they are for Christmas gifts, so I want to try to have them completed early.  I'm feeling pretty good about them, as long as I get some time to finish them.  Gotta buckle down.  My friend Mary is in a similar situation, so we're going to hang out soon and have a knit night.  We did it once before and it was pretty fun.  Find some cheesy movie, catch up, and finish a project.  My favorite quote of the day from her: "If I wasn't married, I'd want to be your roommate so we could knit."  Apparently my certifiably insane work ethic provides great motivation for completing projects :)

Speaking of completed projects, I recently finished a pair of baby alpaca gloves, just like my gray ones, except this time in purple.  My friend Sam bought them on the spot the day after I finished them.  I hope she likes them :)  She's the sweetest cause she even agreed to purchase them through my etsy shop!

One last thing before I finish this post... I recently commissioned and purchased a tote bag from my co-worker Judy.  It's so absolutely adorable that I just had to post a photo of it here.  I've started using it to hold all my IP projects.  I needed a big bag to fit them all!

 

You can check out more of her work at her etsy shop and blog!

Organized Chaos

It's not a secret that I have more yarn in my possession than I know what to do with.  I have this awful habit of falling in love with some fiber and figuring that I'll have a project for it later.  Obviously, with such beautiful yarn, ideas should just come flowing, right?  Wrong.  I think projects take so long that by the time I finish one, I generally decide to start something completely different than what I originally had in mind when I bought some new yarn.  Usually that requires different yarn, so I buy yet more yarn.  The yarn section of my closet is a great example of "organized chaos".  Anyone looking at it would have no idea what they're looking at, but I know!  I know that there is a system!  Actually I think that's the general theme of my entire room and closet right now...

But lately, I've been trying to use up my current yarn stash.  One of my recent projects was a pair of striped fingerless gloves.  I love the combination of black, gray and red.  It's a great mix of cool neutrals and the red provides a nice pop of color.  These will be going up on my etsy shop once I can get some good photos.

I recently discovered I'm allergic to a particular medication, and I had such a bad reaction that I had to stay home from work.  Gave me some time to think of my next project, and I finally decided to unravel that purple scarf and create something new.  A friend of mine had been admiring my short cabled fingerless gloves, so I figured I'd make another pair of those.  The baby alpaca is GREAT for it.  So soft on the hands and it really is a dream to work with.  Here's a look at the IP project.

Still needs a thumb, but should look pretty good when it's done.  I am glad I made them again, I was able to improve on the last pair and take better notes to turn into a proper pattern.  I might try to post it on Ravelry soon.  After these, I believe my next projects will probably be Christmas gifts.  I can't believe it's already November!

Hope you all have a great weekend!