It's That Time Again!

POTHOLDERS!!!!!

Get your crochet hooks out! Adrian, Maryse and I will be hosting the THIRD Annual Potholder Swap!

Here's what I got last year:


Here's what I made:


I'm excited to expand on my crochet skills, and maybe come up with a new design.

Interested in joining us? It's easy! There's some extra time to get things in to us this time around (April 16th). This swap is so great because you don't even have to sign up to be a part of it - just send your stuff in! All of the information can be found in the Ravelry Group, or, if you are not on Rav, in our Flickr Group. Please join us! We can't wait to see what you make!

Cowling

I'm participating in a Cowl Swap with the lovely nuttnbunny - we are subscribed to many of the same fiber clubs, and we continue to spin and then knit very similar things. We're Cowl Soul Sistahs! We had decided a while back to work out a cowl swap with our "Buckland" fiber from HelloYarn. I knit up this little guy! It's easy, stretchy, squishy bamboo stitch with some 1 x 1 rib on the top and bottom. I had some excess and whipped up a few little flowers with the more solid sections of the yarn, and threw on some crazy buttons. To make the cowl a bit more, um, versatile? I also put buttons on the BACKS of the flowers, so they're removable. This will be heading out in today's mail!



In my continuing quest to catch up with the fiber, I spun up my March Club from Spunky Eclectic immediately upon receiving it. This is some Dark BFL in the "Myrtle" colorway and it is wonderful. The colors are so subtle and simple and lovely.

Spring has been teasing us - not quite here, but thinking about it. I've been feeling the same way about my knitting mojo these days. I don't feel super-enthused about any of the projects that I currently have on the needles, I'm not feeling any particular urge to work on any other patterns, I'm just....well, making yarn. For now. And practicing my crochet! I've joined the pot-holder and hot pad swap, and I need to get to it!