Knittin' On The Fly

Snuggle Prizes! Get them FINISHED!

2012-02-26T13:13:00.001-05:00

Here is a reminder of the prizes I'm going to give away in my group for the snuggle project:

From Christy (TwistedKnitwits) at Hiwassee Creek Dyeworks - A skein of DK Loft in the Chokecherry Colorway!

This following bag was donated by Sarah of Apple Blossom and More. She has donated patterns in the past, and has graced us with this wonderful knitting project bag! I love the fabric!

I am also going to donate a set of stitch markers, a set of DPN protectors, and a project bag! Make sure you are a member of the group, post your photo and win! Good luck!

*Each person can only win once

Episode 49: Food Poisoning

2012-02-23T19:46:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Travel to HYA for a meeting.
Worked a 14 hour day Saturday, which made for 6 in a row. (TOO MANY)
1 day of flying left (for sure) in the Pilatus. tomorrow is cancelled.
Toboggan Chute in Camden, ME! SO FUN!
Spent the day in Bedford, MA
Went to visit Heather... was sick! Then I poisoned my honey... I think it was evil lasagna.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Manhattan Socks - COFY
Civil War Shawl - 620 stitches/round - 104 round in so far.

Landed:

Emma Bag

Take Off:

Cousins blanket needs to get back on the needles.

Holding:

Worked with Schacht more to fix my wheel. I think we have it all figured out! Cindy is awesome!

Ground Stop:

Too much fun with Honey! Plus I have been busy with other stuff and not overly excited with any project. Sock overload.
Monkey socks

Reservations:

Great heel replacement idea from the owner in WV. REPLACE IT!
New to me(in the last month or so) Podcasts:

Girlfriends Knitting with Carolyn
Knit Purl Gurl with Karrie
Retro lemon Podcast with Jenna
Muffin, Meg and Me

Audio Podcasts -

Just One More Row with Brittany & Dana
2 Knit Lit Chicks - (thanks for the shout out) with Barb and Tracie
Happy Crafter 207 - Lori - Maine based podcast. Not far from me

Special TFR:

The Big Bang Theory - Love them!

Episode 48: Luvs All The Things(and People)

2012-02-16T17:24:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Great weekend with honey! Texas Roadhouse, Shopping, Cup holder for Kick, bookcase, bins, ball winder, oh my!
Heather and Honey war over a ball winder!
Made some DPN holders, I love them! Recreated one that was gifted to me.
West Virginia for work - very pretty. finished log book, caught up on DA, started watching upstairs, downstairs.
Made a ringtone from a remix!
Heather next week to be a helper monkey
Dallas in March for WAI conference
Work situation still unknown length. (hate the unsettling feeling)

Enroute:

Landed:

Take Off:

Still emptying the HO Bins

Holding:

Been working on my wheel with Schacht as it is grinding... still haven't figured it out. Some drop spindling on the HH Falkland

Ground Stop:

Spend time with my honey... I don't craft as much when he's around.We are busy spending time with each other!

Reservations:

Huge thanks to everyone shopping at amazon and linking through the show notes page! Thanks so much! So many great things on there! There are groceries!
So many V-day cards! That's fantastic! I felt so overwhelmed!
Needlework Barn in WV - goodies were purchased!
Thanks Melanie(fourkittieshaveI) for all the towels
Podcaster PJ Week! Week of March 4th to the 10th!
New Cup... :( but :)
532 Members! awesome!

Special TFR:

LILYPAD!

Episode 47: Lots of FO's!!

2012-02-08T16:11:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Logbook - takes forever!
Went to lunch with Mary.
Super Bowl - Oi Pats and Good wings
Pittsburgh to meet Fibernymph, Lisa of 90% Knitting
Knit One, then Natural Stitches. Very cool people that work there, lots of cool stuff!
Cleveland next week on Wednesday.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Snuggle
Monkey socks - Ripped out and going to restart... too big!
Dishcloth on the Hook

Landed:

Secret Project Done
Lizbeth is done
3 dishcloths

Take Off:

Honey's socks - In Ethereal Fibers Cracked Pepper

Holding Pattern:

Bartlett Yarns Pencil Roving in Mountain Lauren

Ground Stop:

Work search, meetings, Log book, but not a bad week!

Reservations:

Mommy Needs Yarn - Autism Speaks Fundraiser for Brodie
Meliabella - Knitters for Knockers
Rainlover Knits - Is doing the Avon Walk for Breast cancer
Smash and Downton Abbey - LOVE
Goodies from yarn store. No YARN! haha
You made that, I made this note cards by www.knitknotes.com
Sweet Baby and I made this for you tags by www.knitterella.com

Special TFR:

Nutella - so good on so many things!

Episode 46: Happy Podiversary!!

2012-02-02T14:37:00.004-05:00

Jetsetting:

Crazy long day turned out to be better then planned!
Friday/Saturday - nasty storm(I hunkered down)
basic work week. Lots of time with honey! watched football... eh game, but good wings,
Lots of fog on wednesday! late start to the day.. showed at 6 am, left at 930!
Next step with Cape Air... Not sure what to do.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks - 5 rows done
Snuggle
Monkey socks - KALing with Kate from the Noteable Needle Podcast!
Mystery Project - more then half done

Landed:

Pillow case! Fabric from Judy, Embree22! First one is awesome!
Scathach's Hat #3 is totally done!

Take Off:

Baby stuff still on my brain

Holding:

Plyed the Cj Kopec fibers using my new lazy kate! WOOT! now to wind into skein and soak!

Ground Stop:

Life is stressful right now and lots to do besides crafting

Reservations:

1 YEAR PEOPLE!! Year in review!
playwithcolors (Andrea) - gifted me the Sedona pattern from Lisa Dykstra! Thanks!!
knitamaniac (gail)- gifted me Zeke the Aloof Alpaca from Rebecca Danger Designs, Thanks
muffinmegnme(jocelyn) - gifted me Airplane, plane or aeroplane from Kookla Creations
Aimee (froggymonkey) - stitch markers!
Donation from Melanie! Thanks so much for that!
Drawing for the 2 patterns from Lisa Dykstra to be knit in her virtual hug as she battles onward!
An additional 2 patterns were donated by StitchinOutLoud! Thanks so much!!!
Drawing for pattern prizes! (Congrats Cdsgifts and artistmaybe have notified me so far!)
1 year podiversary Drawing for Goodies!! (congrats NanaMama, Alcatmom, Emilyk3661 has contacted me so far)
Links for Prize Donaters:

SpinunKnit Project Bags
PaletPC - Donated the StarAthena’s Stumptown Knits Pattern Club
KnitfyRed - Donated her Woobie Pattern Collection!
NerdGirl - donated 3 raverly patterns!
Embree22 - donated the Toes for Every Body by Wendy D. Johnson

Thanks to Heather from Highland Handmades for the Podiversary shoutout! Heart you hard!
Sadie - Blueruin of yarnivore - I totally do the same with pj pants and recording!
Amazon purchases are much appreciated! Thanks so much! Downton Abby?? Might have to try it out... I have it queued on netflix!

Episode 45: Things are... Changing

2012-01-26T18:30:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Job update. Crazy travel for the Checkride at Cape Air, Checkride went awesome, Went up to see the honey. We watched some football(so much DRAMA! I called it!) and I made some KILLER wings! Recipe from a dear friend of mine. Worked, hung with honey, went to some meetings, worked today. Got to meet (insert here!) WENDY and SHEILA from the Knit 1, Heart 2 podcast! They are awesome! Crazy long day tomorrow, but then a long weekend off and most of it with my honey, so that's fantastic!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Snuggle
Monkey socks - KALing with Kate from the Noteable Needle Podcast!

Landed:

Vanilla Socks

Take Off:

Super secret project - yarn is ordered!

Ground Stop:

Not too much holding me back this week!

Holding:

Did some drop spindling - Highland Handmades Falkland - Katahdin colorway

Reservations:

Lots of kind emails again from everyone!
Donation from Spinunlady of a project bag donation for my 1 year anniversary! Thanks!
Anyone else if you want to donate, please contact me!
Mad79 sent me Tulips, A Colorful Cardigan for Baby from Lindsay Pekny Designs! Thanks
Embree22 for the great fabric! Awesome!
Snuggle KAL with Sadie! Thanks for all of those who have made so many already! I am trying to get mine done, but my crochet is slower then my knitting, but its so much squishier!
YenforYarn has relapsed on her battle with ovarian cancer and she is a knitwear designer. Heather, from Highland Handmades has re-organized a Cast On for YenforYarn KAL. To show her the love and support, we are encouraging people who want to join to go buy one of her patterns and knit that item! I have bought the Manhattan sock pattern. Then tag the project with "COFY" (Cast On for YenforYarn). Kind of a virtual hug going her way.
Also a secret project has been hatched by CJ Kopec, a good friend of YenforYarn. If you are interested, Please email CJ at: cjkopeccreations@yahoo.com Put YenforYarn in your subject line and she will email you the details. If its not your cup of tea, no biggie... but we are keeping the whole thing a secret! :)
Sad that Knitajourney and stitch it podcast are retiring! Will miss them both!
Tricfecta of Awesome Fiber club! I got in! there were 130 people signed up. I was the last name drawn! They did it old school, by printing out the names and pulling out of a basket. I will be doing the same thing for my drawings. RNG just repeats numbers over and over, so i don't want to use it anymore!
Thanks to Diane from knitabulls for the great lazy kate! You are too much!!
Amazon support has been so awesome! thanks to all you online self proclaimed "shopaholics" who are linking through the shownotes page!

Episode 44: I Love My Friends

2012-01-18T21:17:00.014-05:00

Jetsetting:

Crazy week. Lots of ups and downs. Did not attend the wedding of my cousin. I needed the down time with my honey. Was a strange week... seems like it was a month ago and it was 9 days ago. Been a great week of support from everyone, will talk more later about that. We cancelled last friday due to nasty ice storm, so I battened down the hatches during big storm last Thursday and Friday. Couldn't get to my honey due to bad weather(and Yes, Heather, I do get emotional about my honey! and That is OK!! ha ha, you got emotional! shouldn't be throwing stones! Love you!), but it was just too nasty. Trip to Allentown, PA. very nice week to fly. bumpy down low, but nice clear skies!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks
Wedding Blanket (gonna rip it out... hate the pattern)
Snuggle - Slow, but getting there in red heart and fun fur! :)

Landed:

close to having vanilla's done, but not quite!

Take Off:

Aviatrix Hat - My BFF from High School is having a baby! Gonna make lots of baby stuff!

Holding:

Spun CJ Kopec Creations Alaska(Merino) and Prairie Wind(Corriedale/Merino)
Video of the Bobbin Transfer

Ground Stop:

Spun like a fool. Was really good for me last week. Needed the brainless relaxation.

Reservations:

Susan Moore and another special lady.... AMAZING women. Can't even begin to express my gratitude to you both this week. Can't even begin! You both know why! And the rest of you wouldn't even believe what they did... :)
Mountainpurl(Damask), Beaglemomknitter(Batik), Noteableneedle(monkey pdf) - THANK YOU!
I have been overwhelmed with everyone's emails, plurks, pm's on Rav, comments on the blog etc for all the support I've gotten since my bad news last week. I'm am very thankful for the notice it gives me to find something else. I am trying to respond to everyone, so please don't be sad if I haven't got back to you yet... I try to respond to each one eventually!
TwistedKnitWits - donation of yarn from her shop: Hiwassee Creek Dyeworks (a original member of the three ewes crew) will have pics next week for those that are knitting snuggles for the Yarnivore Snuggle drive for the fur babies!
KAL with Noteable Needle, from the Noteable Needle Podcast, Highland Handmades sock yarn in the Monkey pattern by Cookie A
Knitalittle - for continuing the towel hunt for the Wild Kingdom!
Amazon - Thanks so much for the shopping! I am being enabled by your purchases!

Special TFR:

Great support group! You all rock!!!

Episode 43: Emotional Rollercoaster

2012-01-11T11:55:00.004-05:00

Jetsetting:

Went to visit Heather last week from shop.highlandhandmades.com . Skeined up some stuff. Acquired some old appliances and heathers dilemma for my work in the salt mines! We had a picnic on her floor as the other surfaces were covered in dying stuff! I tried to burn my house down(so glad I didn't) Dad came to visit, slightly nervous, but went great! Marshall Point, tour with Honey, Camden, Belfast, Lobster, Lobster Roll, and showed him my airplane! Sad job news :(

Enroute:

Landed:

None

Take Off:

Hopefully a Snuggle and some dishcloths

Ground Stop:

Dad's visit, virtually no knitting
news at work rendered me useless!

Holding:

Absolutely none

Reservations:

Appleblossomsf - gifted me the Hitchhiker pattern on Rav. Thank you!
Knitalittle - gift in the mail, thank you! Michelle is awesome!
RuralUrbanite - nice message on rav!
Jamlknitter - New knitting blogger! Looks like fun! Here is the website: www.knitblogcast.blogspot.com
bindeej - shared a christmas song called, Ya you Betcha! Very funny!
Chaiogoo needles - I like them! magic looping the 2nd stripy sock and They are light and love them. Will acquire more someday!
Thank you to those using the Amazon Link through the blog. It will make keeping the podcast going easier for me!

Special VFR:

Love my family and my Honey! Very supportive and awesome! They all have my back through everything!

Episode 42.5: The One On The Fiberista Files

2012-01-06T07:53:00.001-05:00

Not my own episode, but an appearance on The Fiberista Files with Heather! Lots of laughing, and it is slightly explicit, so not for watching at work or with children around. Enjoy!!

Episode 42: Top Down Shawl Success!

2012-01-02T21:44:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Lots of time with Honey. Went up to work with him as my entire week of work was cancelled! WHEE! Kissed him at midnight, and then we drove home. bad roads, stolen cars, yikes! Interesting New Years Eve! Travel in 2 weekends for cousins wedding, which is actually tomorrow, but reception is later!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks
Wedding Blanket

Landed:

Citron - with Beads at the suggestion of LaLa

Take Off:

Shawl???

Ground Stop:

Super productive week!

Holding Pattern:

Katahdin on the spindle

Reservations:

Thank you to AuntSuzeN for the Ridgelines Shawl pattern by Fibernymph!
Fibernymph, Lisa, for the Airplane spoon pattern!

Snuggles - Sadie at Yarnivore is doing a charity drive for your local humane society for those that love the fur babies! Link is above. Prizes for the podcaster that does the most and for the podcaster who's viewers do the most. Whatever the prize is for the group project, will go back to someone who knitted for the drive, if we win that category! Easy squares or rectangles and great stast busting!

Chiaogoo Needles came. The bamboo's spin, but the red cords don't. They feel very light and flexible... will be casting on some socks with the 1.5/ 2.5mm.

Special TFR:

Welcome 2012. the last 2.5 years have been phenomenal... and it keeps getting better! I welcome another year to my life with open arms!

Episode 41: Merry Christmas!

2011-12-25T17:59:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Shelter man car port for the car. 3 hours, turned into 7... horrible directions. augusta for lunch, truck gas cap disaster, truck remote programming, all presents arrived safely. I Love having time off. Trip cancelled on Tuesday, may be cancelled Friday too! Meaning I might get almost 2 weeks off... PAID! xmas eve - spent working around house and getting honey's present done and watching football! Skyped with my fam back home and laughed and laughed and laughed! Honey got home late! we opened presents, had christmas lunch and he headed back to work! Mega snow event going on. First of the year... check it out!! Look at my presents, I am so spoiled! I am a blessed woman! Presents or not, I am the luckiest in the world! Merry Christmas!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks
Wedding Blanket

Take Off:

Socks! and a gradient shawl

Landed:

Nothing

Ground Stop:

short time between 'casts

Holding Pattern:

None

Reservations:

Knitabulls - traveling woman shawl pattern,
Tamiknits: TGV pattern
Knitterphreek: Juno regina stole/wrap (cardinal lace weight by highland handmades)

Calendar of Hope: www.fitterknitter.com

Special TFR:

I'm a lucky woman! Merry Christmas!

Episode 40: Christmas is Here People!

2011-12-21T20:01:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Went to see my honey and we took a long ways around drive down to meet up with Heather and her Hubby! Only got to spend a few hours, but know I know where she lives and it is a slight detour on my way home from my honeys, but easy to swing down and see her for a bit! and it breaks up my looooong drive! Gonna be heading out in a few weeks to my cousins wedding. Not going home for the holidays, gonna have a quiet christmas with my honey. And by the way, WHY IS FAMILY SO INSENSITIVE AROUND THE HOLIDAYS?!??!!?!? Oi, family drama!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks
Wedding Blanket

Landed:

None!

Take off:

Want to knit with my handspun, maybe the shawl

Holding:

None

Ground Stop:

I have lost my mojo. I am not going to stress myself with finishing that blanket. and I just don't wanna knit lately. Oi! I may dig through my UFO bin and get reinspired!

Reservations:

New to me Podcast is the Stockinette Zombies: They are from MN, my home state and they crack me up. One is a project ho, and one is a uber monogamous knitter... I tend to be more ho-ish in my knitting... :)

Love out to Wendy and Sheila from the Knit 1, Heart 2 podcast. I totally admire those women and just wanna send them some podcast love! (I love all my podcasters) Go check them out if you don't already!

MNY Swap package! AWESOME!

Missing a post office package... trying not to panic. Its nothing irreplaceable, but will be really irritating if its gone! it says delivered and is NOT here! local post office is great and working on it!

Mean Girls Yarn Club: Homerun! I loved it! Great yarn, loved the candle! Thanks Laura!

Thank you to everyone who is shopping on Amazon and linking through the shownotes page. It is really going to help out the podcast and am so excited to get some goodies to give away for something! :) Please shop away! I even shop on amazon and link through my page! like a discount! hahaa Sincere appreciation!

Special TFR:

Mom's Sugar Cookies and Holiday baking in general

Episode 39: Full of Random

2011-12-15T19:46:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Light work week as the plane has been in Maintenance. Drove to Manchester, NH to pick up the plane then had a long weekend with the honey. We had brunch with 2 of his coworkers, and then my company christmas party. Schedules are all over the place and not matching up very well, but we will get some time together! I spent a couple hours outside of Cleveland Tuesday, had some italian food and back we came! Travel in January to a cousin's wedding but not much else planned! We'll see what work brings.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks
Wedding Blanket

Landed:

My Christmas Stocking - KATIE

Take Off:

La la's Simple shawl

Ground Stop:

Been productive

Holding:

By golly there is spinning! CJ Kopec creations... I never remember what kind of fiber it is... or the colorway and everytime she tells me... I forget to write it down.. OI!

Reservations:

15% discount at Desert Vista Dyeworks you use the code: KOTF15 She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out! It is good until Dec 15th, so go grab your Christmas gift now!

Calendar of Hope: Asked by a Raveler, Cindy Moore(fitterknitter), who is a breast cancer survivor, to mention it and I will! Go check it out! All donations, minus the paypal fees go to The Army Of Women, which researches Breast Cancer. You get 13 patterns of Dishcloths and Towels for $18 and it all goes research!

MNY swap package is out to my partner...she got it and loved it! Whew! Still waiting on mine! :) so excited!

Christmas shopping is done for the most part. A couple people left, but those will be bought online and sent to them at their homes! Christmas party on Sunday for work at an AWESOME restaurant! And my honey gets to be there! YEA!

Might be meeting up with Heather from Highland Handmades

Got my WINNER fiber from Ethereal Fibers, its pretty!

Becky from the Addicted to Yarn podcast has opened her shop and her bags are AWESOME! Check out her Shop: Bitchin' Becky's Boutique of Badassery

Special TFR:

Nativity Scene from my childhood!

Click through to Amazon.com and do your shopping and the podcast gets a little bonus to help with costs!! Thanks!

Episode 38: Christmas Time is Here.

2011-12-04T16:09:00.000-05:00

Jetsetting:

Went east this week to see my honey, Marden's for bowls to make ceviche and I always look for off the trail crafty things.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks My Christmas Stocking - KATIE

Landed:

Nope!

Take Off:

shawl still

Grd Stop:

Got stuck because I finished things to a point where I had to wait til I got back to continue working on them

Holding:

None :(

Reservations:

15% discount at Desert Vista Dyeworks you use the code: KOTF15 She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out! It is good until Dec 15th, so go grab your Christmas gift now!

Calendar of Hope: Asked by a Raveler, Cindy Moore(fitterknitter), who is a breast cancer survivor, to mention it and I will! Go check it out! All donations, minus the paypal fees go to The Army Of Women, which researches Breast Cancer. You get 13 patterns of Dishcloths and Towels for $18 and it all goes research!

All the Outside decorations are up and house is ready for holidays. I have the urge to bake up a storm, but an not going to until the week before christmas. I don't need that crap in the house for a month. No no no!

500: Here is a link for the closest to what we play. We put 5 in the kitty and we use the jack opposite the trump suit also as a high card. If spades is trump then the Jack of Clubs is high card above the A of spades. So rank of the trump suit of Spades is: Jokes, Jack of Spades, Jack of Clubs, A,K,Q, etc on down. we take out the 2 and 3's also.

Wolfe Farms: Apple Crisp, Cucumber Melon, Vanilla Creme, and Cherry Almond. I LOVE Cherry Almond! Go check it out! I got mine on her cyber monday and free shipping sale! :)

Amazon Shopping: If you link to amazon by going to the blog(which is here, obviously) and to go amazon and do your shopping, the podcast gets a small percentage of your purchase... and it doesn't cost you any extra! It helps out me just a little and is greatly appreciated. A few have done it to buy Kindle FIRES and that was awesome! Thanks so much to those that have done it already!

Special TFR:

Christmas Movies and Shows

Towels for D.E.W. Wildlife Kingdom! Look at the box! 13 towels arrived this week, plus some awesome goodies!

Episode 37: Merry Thanksmas

2011-11-27T14:30:00.001-05:00

Jetsetting:

Family is here to visit. Went flying, adventuring up the coast, played lots of cards! Honey came back and surprised me and my family knew it was gonna happen. Kitty adjusted well and came out and saw everyone! Work has finally slowed down a little bit! Whew!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks

Landed:

Honey's Christmas Stocking

Take Off:

Lapghan for cousin probably

Ground Stop:

Time with family. I didn't knit a stitch while they were here!

Episode 36: A Quickie

2011-11-16T11:43:00.002-05:00

Shownotes Soon with Links!

Episode 35: Hello, My Name Is Ralph

2011-11-10T12:56:00.004-05:00

Drawing first for winners of the Ambroso Mittens October KAL with Mommy Needs Yarn! Congrats! Send me a PM with your address!!!

Jetsetting:

Up to meet up with Heather and her hubs at Kilby Ridge Farms. Got some fiber from Elena! Crazy work week: BOS, PHL, TEB(watched movies in their Theater, seriously) Then off to Knittin' In The Mitten. Here is a picture of Little Mr. CJKopec and I. I didn't get it in the show in time.

Stories for many many minutes fill this space. Travel home was EASY! Love it! easy work week this week.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks

Landed:

Nothing

Take Off:

Shawl of some kind

Ground Stop:

Travel, work a little... but knit a bunch on my socks.

Holding:

Plyed my merino/tencel from Highland Handmades... YEA! now to figure out yardage. 18-20 WPI... not sure what weight that is.

Reservations:

Goodies from the Retreat! So many good vendors! Links follow:

Winding Wool Creek - cotton candy fiber and stitch markers
Wistyria - Wool Sampler Pack
Valley Yarns - 2 skeins in mustard and arctic in our grab bags
CJ Kopec Creations - 2 bumps from her shop in greens, browns, blue and oranges to be plied together
Hornshaw Wood Works - my new WPI tool and I want one of their swifts

Prize from Ethereal Fibers in Ground Pepper in her supernal Sock Yarn

Gift from Susan and Savannah of their Mono Gradient in the Purpleberry colorway. You guys are awesome. We are going to do a coupon for 15% off and You use the code: KOTF15 She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out!

Episode 34: Cool Stuff is a Comin' your way

2011-10-26T22:39:00.000-04:00

Jetsetting:

Work back and forth to Boston, big jetsetting to PHL and TEB, then off to Knittin' in the Mitten in Michigan hosted by CoggieTM. Will be arriving late, but will get there! Work is still just crazy nuts.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens - hate

Landed:

Honey's Hat

1/2 landed: One Interrupting cow sock!

2 purple baby hats

Take Off:

Some stripy socks in Vesper "Smoke On The Water" for Knittin' in the Mitten, need some mindless knitting for all the yakking I'm gonna do. My honey picked the yarn

Ground Stop:

Been busy on sock and baby hats and finishing the honey hat!

Holding:

Finished the Merino/Tencel in Peotic from Highland Handmades
Need to ply it, but there is no more fiber left!

Reservations:

Mean Girls Yarn Club Shipment Spoiler: Yarn(Christine), sucker and a tea kit for your purse!

Delivered 163 baby hats to the distribution center. Next year I will email you the labels... that was a lot of labels! I am floored by the amount of hats I got. I was hoping for 30 or so.. you all blew me away!

Donations of towels and blankets to D.E.W. Wild Kingdom. We WILL reimburse you for shipping. Can be old, miscolored, stained. But PLEASE make sure they are clean. Dirty laundry is not fun to get as a donation.

Knittin' In The Mitten: Nov. 3-6th. I will arrive on Friday morning super early! Got an awesome ride to the retreat and I totally fan girled her. I had no shame. OH BOY! haha, she is a good sport. So pumped for my FIRST retreat! WOOT! I am gonna meet some awesome people! Be prepared for clips through out the weekend on my youtube channel: for the podcast!

Work has been so Psychotic! HUGE ups and downs! So crazy! I got a raise, spoke about the busy-ness of the schedule. Then when I asked about the retreat days off, my boss had totally forgot about it, but it's going to work out almost perfect! :)

Special TFR:

Electric Screwdriver to wind off the bobbin onto my $1.25 cardboard bobbin.

Episode 33: So Many Things To Talk About

2011-10-20T08:30:00.005-04:00

Jetsetting:

Work has been crazy: Wednesday last week: RKD BED BST HVN SYR BST BED. Overnighted in Bedford, MA. Thursday: BED BWI TEB BED SYR TEB HVN. There I got out and drove 2.5 hrs to BOS to meet up with the honey to catch our flight. Saw old friends in MSP, went to a rockin' wedding, split and stacked some wood for my mom... busy weekend! Next month will be Crazy for work!! Knittin' in the Mitten is the first weekend of November and I will be arriving a little late. Actually very early in the morning, but later then most!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens
Test Knit for Heather at Highland Handmades - Hat for the honey!

Landed:

Nothing

Take Off:

Baby Hats

Ground stop:

I'm loose. I mean I'm a loose knitter so the test knit and the Ambroso mittens had numerous attempts at getting gauge. But it's finally figured out.

Holding:

nothing, but need to get the merino/tencel done and plied so I can have the bobbins for Knittin' In The Mitten

Reservations:

OMG HATS! I will post a picture at some point of the pile of hats I have already. Thank you for all your patience as I struggle through my first charity drive. All hats are accounted for, just have grown legs and moved around! Thank you to everyone. Drawing will be done next time and I'll try to get more organized!

Podcasters who have donated: (If I miss you, please email or pm me... it was not intentional)

Froggymonkey: Knitting In Circles
SillyFru: Sassy Pants Knitter
SockBunny: sockbunny knit and fit
KnittingSamauri plus 1 podcast

Package from Podcaster Challenge package I got:

Mini Spidle from Spinerosity
Fiber Sample from Bartlett Yarns here in Harmony, Maine
Notepad, pocket mirror and Stitch Markers from KnittingsmyBag
Wooden Knitting needles - size 8
Bottle of Bvlgari lotion
A sample skein of Miss Bab's in A Day At Aunt Viola's donated by Knittingsmybag!
and a goodie bag with coupons from Ethereal Fibers and Wolfe Farms(soap sample also)

From my KAL Prize Package I received:

4 oz Polworth - Pitch Pine Top int he Forest Path colorway from Highland Handmades
1 pattern from Apple Blossom & More
1 skein of custom dyed yarn from Ethereal Fibers

I love the prizes. thank you so much for donating to the Podcaster Challenge! Great job, Lois!

Special TFR:

My iPhone. I didn't say that, but it is my special being now... Still trying to figure out all the stuff, but it's going well.

Episode32: HOLY COW!

2011-10-07T19:41:00.000-04:00

Jetsetting:

Work has been crazy and getting worse, MN trip from madness next week. Sad news from the airport.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens

Landed:

Cable Comfort Throw
Take Off:

baby hats!!!

Ground stop:

Not really much: been very productive, but not nearly enough. need to finish project bags, tree skirt, blanket and hats ASAP! EEEeeekkkk!!!! Ambroso project has been frogged twice.

Holding:

*head hanging in shame* None... again!

Reservations:

We won the KAL prize (HH fiber, how ironic) We took second with the bears. We had 50, and Knitabulls edged us with 66... but we ended up with more then 250 bears for the Mother Bear Project! YOU ALL ROCK! Working on finishing making bags for the prizes... sorry!! They are coming!

I got a donation from allison1031. Thanks so much for thinking of me... it will be used for shipping of prizes! :)

PURPLE HATS: Holy crap! they are pouring in! summerieday(April), tgknits(trish), crojulee(jullee) 14 hats, hishandmade(Dianna) came in this week!

Ambroso KAL with Erin at Mommy Needs Yarn... I have cast on, and so many people are tearing through it! I can't wait to get mine rocking along! Sarah at Apple Blossom and More has donated 3 patterns from her shop as prizes for those who KAL with me during October! Thanks so much for the donation. she has great patterns and the charts are fantastic! perfectly sized! gotta find some yarn for the shawl!

Sarah at the Rainlover Podcast - Has a sock pattern - Ribbons for Mom - that has all proceeds going to breast cancer research. The donations will go on forever, as long as the pattern is up. She has close family that has battled Breast Cancer and this is her response... what a way to give back.

Special TFR:

Rosemary Chicken with Orange-Maple Glaze

OH MY GOODNESS! In love... my honey even ate the leftovers the next night... and he doesn't do leftovers... :) SUCCESS!!

Carmel Apple Cake - mom's recipe... so delicious!

And Mom's Pumpkin Cream Cheese cookies... oh my goodness!

Episode 31: All the pretty hats!

2011-10-03T14:31:00.001-04:00

*Music is my Dad's polka band that he played for before I was born*

Jetsetting:

Finally back to work, super busy week coming up, knitting to also get done, Traveling in 10 days for cousins wedding. Airplane news :( sad stuff. May also be teaching a certain person how to waltz for the upcoming wedding! Dancing in the hangar! It was awesome!

Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw
Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2

Landed:

Nada

Take Off:

Ambroso Mittens, and another Scathach's Hat(#3)

Ground Stop:

Been a good week with no disasters!

Holding:

None.

Reservations:

PURPLE HATS! Everywhere! Its awesome! And a LOT of you have my address to send them to! Try to get them in the mail by the 15th please. That will give me time to drive them up to the hospital!

GoPreds
Netta
Jakelsey
Knittingsmybag

Ambroso Mitten KAL with Erin at Mommy Needs Yarn

Naming my wheel suggestions: Hotpinksocks and coggietm: Goose(What a more perfect name for your wheel than…..Goose! Your wingman! Lol!!!! (Top Gun)) and Piper(The name is associated with those who are creative, inventive, and ingenious in practical matters, such as handicrafts. It is also a good single prop ;))

Winners are drawn for Mother Bear donations and the Scathach's hat KAL! Please contact me with your info! Please go vote for the Plurk Podcaster Challenge. And also go add this tag to all your patterns that you knit for the challenge: PPC2011 I think it makes you eligible for prizes from Knittingsmybag, Lois, who was our fearless leader and supporter!

Donation from Sarah at the Apple Blossom and More has donated 3 patterns from her shop. Great patterns and charts. Will mention it again and again over the coming weeks. Thanks Sarah!

Special TFR:

New Section so I can share a favorite item, recipe, pattern or whatever strikes my fancy! This week:

Dumbo!! My favorite childhood movie!

Episode 30: I'm a Ramblin' Woman

2011-09-25T18:08:00.001-04:00

The Wild Kingdom video had to be posted separately so you can see that in the post below.

Jetsetting:

Numerous trips to Manchester to pick up the Pilatus from scheduled maintenance. Took a load of insulation up to the D.E.W. Wild Kingdom and Sanctuary. www.dewanimalkingdom.com Had a little party at our house for a friend! Love getting together!

Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw
Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2

Landed:

Mother Bear #2

Take Off:

Yet another Scathach's Hat for a friend out of MMMMMMalabrigo!

Ground Stop:

Lots of busy at home, but still got a lot done, so not too bad this week.

Holding:

Absolutely none.

Reservations:

Halcyon Yarns - www.halcyonyarn.com
Awesome price on Cardboard bobbins and little trinkets! 40 years in business!(sorry for the pauses... was texting with my honey! haha)

www.clickforbabies.org -

I have 15 hats already and I know there are many more coming!! Getting more and more prizes! Check out the thread on my group and see the prizes at the top of the page. You guys are screaming through the hats!

Amy - Knitting in Circles
Sillyfru - Sassypants Knitter Podcast

Prize donated by Susan and Savannah from Desert Vista Dye Works. A skein of mono gradient fingering in the Purple Berry colorway

Dawn at Knit Naturally gave me the sweetest compliments! Thanks *blushes*

Liz at Needle Bound Podcast giving us some bear support! Thanks Liz!

Knitabulls has us by a couple bears... Bring on those BEARS!

Noteable Needles has gone PPC crazy... guess we know who's getting that prize!

GO VOTE and VOTE MANY TIMES!! If no one votes, then it takes some fun out of the whole process... go check it out!! click on the link above!

Wild Kingdom Visit!

2011-09-25T08:38:00.000-04:00

I couldn't get blip to load the podcast and wild kingdom visit together, so I had to break it up! Enjoy!

A Fantastic Group from Maine

2011-09-22T21:08:00.001-04:00

I proudly support them!

Peaceful Weekend

2011-09-18T13:25:00.001-04:00

A slideshow of the gorgeous place I got to spend my Saturday knitting while my honey worked. Oh, the the 1/2 bushel of apples I got for $4!!! YEP!

Episode 29: Finished Objects YEA!

2011-09-17T08:40:00.000-04:00

Jetsetting:

Work, Trip to Manchester, NH to take plane to scheduled mx, went flying on Cape Air, and worked on the little plane! Airplane TRIFECTA! Went to Fiber College and hung out with Heather, her hubby and Tina for 2 days... AWESOME!

Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw
Interrupting Cow Socks

Landed:

Scathach's Hat
Mother Bear #1

Take Off:

Another Scathach's Hat in Malabrigo

Ground Stop:

None really... I was pretty productive this week.

Holding:

Worked on the Merino/Tencel in Peotic from Highland Handmades

Reservations:

More hats for click for babies! 2 hats from Heidi. Going to have more prizes! Send in those hats!!

Thanks to:
CoggieTM from The High Fiber Diet Podcast
Diane from The Knitabulls Podcast
Dawn from the Wolfe Farms Podcast

Also: Amy from the Knitting In Circles Podcast(i forgot to say it, but thought I'd put it here and talk about it next week!

PPC:

Finished my Hat! So fun and easy. Do you think it's slouchy enough? should it be slouchier? Help!

Mother Bear #1 is done from me!

Thanks to(another army of bears), , , and for adding more bears... you guys are too much!

Episode 28: She's BAAAACCCCKKK!

2011-09-10T07:08:00.000-04:00

Jetsetting:

We are ridiculous this week with laughter and fun... pardon the tangents!

Just work this week. Little plane is down for Mx. New muffler, door seals, oil change, cylinder gasket, clock. We already installed the new carpet. My honey is awesome and motivating and supportive... keeps pushing me when I get frustrated! I love him! Going to the Fiber College tomorrow to visit with Heather and Tina and check it out. Prolly go see my honey on Sunday!

Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw,
Interrupting Cow Socks
One more... that will be discussed later

Landed:

Nadda

Take Off:

Not much

Ground Stop:

Busy with my honey over the weekend working on the plane, long ongoing project for us. organizing the house, big time, purging and cleaning... good feeling, but hard work.

Holding:

Slight bit of work on the merino Tencel from Highland handmades, but nothing significant

Reservations:

DebKnits2 - 4 hats for the www.clickforbabies.org Thank you so much!

Thanks to BritKnits and Sockbunny for mentioning it on their podcasts!

PPC update:

Pattern: Scathach's Hat

Thanks to so many of you who are joining me! I have been floored by the number of KAL participants and how the hats have come out... they look awesome!

Mother Bear: We are rocking the house on bears! I am so impressed by all of you who have whipped them out already:rjhuggz, 1to1, TMYinHNL, and jeffner77... who has whipped up 10 already... Way to make a pile of bears... mine is coming... Erin is onto us... keep knitting!

Episode 27: Plurk Podcaster Challenge PROJECT!!!

2011-09-02T11:35:00.002-04:00

Plurk Podcaster Challenge PROJECT!!!

Who's with me!?!?!

Do you need a great hat for winter? Do you want to KAL with me? Do you want to help me beat the other podcasters!?!?!?!? Then JOIN me!!!! WOOHOOOO!!!!

Here's the pattern:

Scathach's Hat

Jetsetting:

Work and Went up to see the honey in the little plane. Gotta replace her muffler, bummer.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks, Cable Comfort Throw

Landed:

Notta

Take Off:

Starving Artist, Plurk challenge hat, mother bear

Holding:

How I learned to Navajo Ply on a wheel:

Falkland Candy Corn colorway from Highland Handmades

Reservations:

www.clickforbabies.org - Thanks for you support so far!

Mother Bear Projects: Get your needles going! The time is now! Here is the nice woman who will send you the Knit in the round pattern for mother bear. Katmcab is the woman to contact!

Plurk Podcaster Challenge: See link at the top of the page for pattern. Very cute little hat. I am gonna try to make mine, non slouchy! :) Come on! Let's go! Prize entry's for everyone who joins the mother bear, hat, or the purple baby hats... each will have their own prizes and their own pool of names!

Episode 26: Babble and a Hurricane!

2011-08-29T21:24:00.003-04:00

Jetsetting:

MN Wedding and trying to get home during a hurricane... enough said.(a loong segment)

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks

Landed:

Lover's Knot Afghan

Take Off:

Blanket for my cousin, Eric's, Wedding. Cable Comfort Throw out of Lion Brand Jiffy in Caffe and Camel Spray

Ground Stop:

Travel and wedding madness! But I did a stupid amount of knitting done before the wedding stuff started!

Holding:

Too busy, Batman... too busy

Reservations:

Click for Babies: www.clickforbabies.org Ewesmama sent in 2! Thanks so much! Each hat gets you entered into a drawing for stitch markers, project bags and other goodies from my stash!

www.Bartlettyarns.com -
Super awesome customer service! FAST responses! 2 skeins of yarn for my honey's hat and some roving... for me!

Plurk Podcaster Challenge KAL! - Get ready! Pattern will be revealed on the thread for the kal on the ravelry group page! Its gonna be fun! 200 -ish yds of worsted required. tonals or solids... maybe a light varigated!

Mother Bear KAL also kicks off on Friday! Lets make those bears and take down those other podcasters! MOMMYNEEDSYARN-that means you!

Inspiknity Blocking Wires - did good on the blanket(blanket was very big and cumbersome), can't wait to try them on a shawl!!

Blanket Update!!!

2011-08-25T17:42:00.001-04:00

Onward to the next project!

Episode 25: Epic Cable Fail!

2011-08-22T11:04:00.000-04:00

Shownotes later!

couple of links quick:

www.motherbearproject.org

www.meangirlsyarnclub.blogspot.com

Episode 24: You Spin Me Right Round

2011-08-13T17:29:00.001-04:00

Jetsetting:

Work! Lots of it! Trips to Boston, Linden, NJ, Conshohocken, PA(Philly), Boston, Maine whew! MN is coming very soon! Dress taken to Seamstress... lots of taking in to do! WOOOHOOO!!!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks, Lover's Knot Afghan

Landed:

:( Nadda

Take Off:

NOTHING TIL THE BLANKET IS DONE!!! But so much after that! (already plotting)

Ground Stop:

Dropped a stitch on the blanket, fixed it luckily(5 rows later), My Honey's Birthday week extravaganza took up most of my week! and some working!

Holding:

Finished the Highland Handmades Cherry Blossom 8 oz plied soaked and skeined is 575 yds! I'm pretty happy with that as my first handspun on my wheel! it is going to become Lala's Simple Shawl!

Finished spinning 4 oz of Highland Handmades Falkland in Candy Corn. Am going to try and navajo ply that this week. Have never done it on a wheel, so we'll see!

Also Started on more Highland Handmades(think I have a problem?) SW Merino/Tencel in Poetic

Reservations:

Also from Monet: Awesome Earrings

Mim58(Mary): sent me a fibery gift. So flattered... thanks!

Heather from The Fiberista Files: Barlettyarns (www.barlettyarns.com) pencil roving in Mountain Laurel! She picked the roving, her hubby picked the color! Its awesome! I also got a sample pack of their different yarns for ordering purposes!

KnitterCNY(on Rav): http://clickforbabies.org/ Maine is a part of the Click for Babies campaign. little baby hats knit in purple or mostly purple to raise awareness for Shaken Baby Syndrome. The hats should be at least 50% purple and made for preemies to normal sized newborns. I will be collecting them until the 15th of October so they can be sent to the local Hospital for distribution during the month of November. I will be doing a raffle of some kind that each hat will get you an entry... and I'm coming up with prizes... still working on that!

Mother Bear KAL: Doing 2 drawings! received another pattern from Katie at Noteable Needlework, so 2 People will be winners!!! Thanks for the support and the knitting will commence on Sept. 2! So if you don't win, order your pattern now and get that yarn ready to rock! There is also a woman on Rav who wrote a pattern in the round... so once you buy your pattern you can contact her and she'll send you the in the round pattern... Will link her after you all have a chance to buy your patterns! Let's get bears knit for those who would never get a chance to have one otherwise.

Bring it on Plurk Podcasters!

Episode 23: No Clear Theme

2011-08-07T17:33:00.003-04:00

Show notes ~~soon~~ Done!!!

Jetsetting:

To MN for funeral, Mechanicals everywhere: delays everywhere, switching airlines-whew! We went camping locally! Upcoming Trips: New Jersey, Philly and MN for the wedding.

Enroute:

Lover's Knot Afghan , Interrupting Cow Socks

Landed:

:( Nothing... again

Takeoff:

Nothing til I finish blanket!

Ground Stop:

Life! Camping, work, just busy!

Holding:

Spun up the 1st 4 oz of Highland Handmades Cherry Blossom and will hopefully finish the second 4 oz so I can ply them for next week.

Reservation:

Plurk Podcaster Challenge - Mother Bear KAL Enter to win a pattern to knit a bear! Will be giving away 2 actually!! Called out Erin from Mommy Needs Yarn. (totally meant in fun... I love Erin)

Monet from Plurk had a raffle to save a horse. I won the raffle. Beautiful yarn that she spun: 50/50 Merino Tencel Blend, ~635 yards! Gonna be Tracy's Shawl by Wendy Johnson. Thanks Monet!

Computer disaster! NOOOooooo!

2011-08-01T22:25:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone!

I have so much i want to share with you this week. But it will have to wait. I had my laptop crash this morning. I think its the same problem it had last year, which was major repairs. OI!! So i am going to try and record tomorrow and see if i can find somewhere to upload it from! But just wanted you all to know what was up! Please stay tuned!!

Katie O

Episode 22: White Water Rafting and Stuff

2011-07-27T11:07:00.003-04:00

Jetsetting:

Honey's vacation, bought a pop up and renovated it, 2 year anniversary with my Honey with a dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse, presents for my airplane and a new video camera! Crazy work schedule. Camping with Boutrosbabe of www.thefiberistafiles.com and her hubby. Then we went WHITEWATER RAFTING! OH YEA! Huge scary thing for me, but I ended up loving it! See the link(photo) below to see all the pics.

Rafting

Enroute:

Lover's Knot Afghan , Interrupting Cow Socks

Landed:

Another preemie hat with eyelets!

Take Off:

Nothing! I have to buckle down on cousin's blanket

Ground Stop:

No knitting catastrophe's, just busy spending time with my honey, renovating the camper and enjoying time with him!

Holding:

THE SIDEKICK IS HERE! She is an awesome machine and I love it! so cool! Working on Highland Handmades, Cherry Blossom BFL. I got Wheel warming gifts from Boutrosbabe/Heather. 2 spinning books on loan to help learn about the wheel processes, some bfl from her own personal stash and some SW Merino! I'm so spoiled! She helped me a ton this weekend with the wheel. Thanks Heather!

Reservations:

General Blabber! Have a great week!