YPF.................................Yartini Sport or eye Candy?

I am off for a few days in Paris...Disneyland for my baby's 4th birthday...............where does the time go to?? This week's yarn is a real piece of eye candy............acquired by Ravelry trade with a lovely irishgirlieknits. The yarn is Yarntini sportweight in Sunrise. It reminds me of sweets from my child hood.

Or is it icecream???

or lovehearts sweets

What does it remind you of??


See you tomorrow.........................after I find out if I 'won' a place in the Wollmeise Sock club :)

Stashing.......................................

A number of parcels arrived this week. I got 4 Phildar catalogues of knitting patterns, one in French as they had run out of the english one, but I have some french and will be able to use the other catalogues as 'codebooks' to translate :) I hope.

The first yarn parcel was from Dee at Posh Yarns.

Posh Yarns Eva 4ply in Peacock




Posh Yarns Eva in Willow.
The 2nd yarn parcel was from Alice at Socktopus, this lucky girl is going to sock camp!

Handmaiden Casbah in Nova Scotia for socks.





Chameleon Colorworks Evolution in Cobalt Blue




Mountains in the Moonlight by Indigo Moon


The 3rd yarn parcel was from a fellow raveler who helped me out a lot, thanks :)

Remember I wanted the yarn for this, well it's here double quick, 14 skeins of Urban Silk. Yummy!! :)




The 5th yarn parcel was this:

some 100% aran wool I bought for felting from New Lanark Mills. It was less than £1 per 50grams! I am keen to see how it felts. I t feels like Rowanspun Aran which felts beautifully.


I now need more furniture to store this all......................if only I didn't see so much lovely yarn and have such desire to knit the lovely patterns out there!!

Surprise Credit!

I got a message on Ravelry from a fellow Raveler/RSC member asking me would I like a copy of the picture they had made of the chart of the Micro Monkey Sock pattern (I had modified it from Cookie A's Knitty pattern for my 3 year old). Yes please! Here it is, and credit given to me, even though Nartian did all the hard work. Thank you Nartian! :)

YPF .....................Enigma

I've been busy this week, at work, at home with the kids, going to see HP and the Order of the Phoenix. The other thing keeping me busy is Ravely, I got my invite last Saturday as I went to visit my brother and his family for my Godson's 2nd Birthday. As he lives 100 miles away we went for the weekend. :) I have since been attempting to add my stash, yarn by yarn, colourway by colour; my patterns and books and all my projects, wip's and FO :) It is a fascinating resource, but my blog has been neglected. I'm gilraen too on Ravelry so add me to your friends if you are on too. :)

This is a single skein of Colinette's Enigma in Florentine colourway, it looks so pretty.