Catch Up Time - Knit Tea Package & What's On the Needles!

Yep, I'm one of those really awful bloggers!!! I keep promising to do better - but I'm not quite measuring up am I? So I shall take the oath one more time and try, try, try my best to post more often!

First thing on the agenda - my Knit Tea Swap 2 Package arrived today!! I could not believe all the great things stuffed in that box, it blew me away - Tonya was my swap buddy and the package she put together for me was way, way more than I ever dreamed....let me tell you all about it...








Tonya sent me - Bamboo needles (Bamboo is fav type of needles! - and I didn't have this size!!) - a nice smelling Berry scented candle (I love candles!) - a fridge magnet (if you could see my fridge you would know that I love magnets! lol) - 2 boxes of tea - Lipton's Herbal Raspberry (I love ANYTHING Raspberry, so I was really excited to get this flavour! - Twinings English Breakfast Tea (the weird thing about this is a couple of weeks ago I had bought a Twinings sampler box of teas, English Breakfast was one of them and I fell in love with it!!!!) - a TV Guide Celebrity recipe book (Who DOESN'T like recipes, I LOVE them!) - two angels pins - Courage and Awakening (I already have them on my coat!) - a nice big tea mug!! - Pirouette sticks by Pepperidge Farms (I had never tried these - lol I have NOW and I LOVE them!) - a bear shaped bottle of honey (I had never tried honey in my tea before - tried it today after getting it and I love it!!!) - a cute little faux flower arrangement! - and now for the yarn - I got Lionbrand magic stripe yarn! I love the colours - being a newish knitter I don't have much of a stash so this was great to get!! - I will be making socks out of this so stay tuned for the upcoming project and then I got two balls of Debbie Bliss Aran Tweed!! - this is the bestest yarn that I have and that I have ever had!! It's purple with teal and orange flecks! I'm thinking scarf or something along those lines - will give it more thought!! I still can't believe I have Debbie Bliss yarn in my stash!!!! lol....
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU TONYA FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!!! YOU HAVE MADE MY FIRST-EVER SWAP A VERY POSITIVE EXPERIENCE!........I WILL BE DROPPING BY TO READ YOUR BLOG!!.......
and I saw that the person I sent my Knit Tea Swap 2 package too , Tammy G, received it and by the sounds of it really like it, it's so hard buying for other people I was a nervous wreck wondering how she would like it - but all seems okay!!!...

well you'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out the rest of my update! it's late and i'm off to bed...!!!...I'll be back (famous last words! lol)

Kim

Been Gone Too Long...

Phew! I didn't mean to stay gone for this long! But life has a way of creeping up on you doesn't it? I've been busy with work etc. and I have definitely been knitting! My first ever sock (I posted a pic of it in progress) was coming along nicely until I made the dreaded mistake, I'm a fairly new knitter so I'm not too good at frogging so I had to take it apart and i'm now just starting it again, I'll post a pic of that when I get further along!

I was away last weekend - my sister's and I went to St. Jacob's, Ontario - a small Amish village a few hours from here to do some shopping - lucky for me both of my sister's are into knitting as well so we hit a couple of knitting stores while we were there. I'm in the Knit Tea Swap 2 so I picked some things up for my swap buddy - hopefully she'll like what I got her - this is my first ever swap so I'm nervous about picking good things to send to her! I still have a few more things to get for her and I'm hoping to mail it out on Wednesday or Thursday. My swap buddy - a nice woman by the name of "Tonya"has been in touch with me - check out her blog!

Now - for what I've been up to knitwise ....


I'm making the "Loopy Scarf" out of Paton's Bohemian - I love this yarn!


This Patons Bohemian is for my friend Linda - she came along on our St.Jacob's trip and fell in love with the scarf - but doesn't know how to knit - so i'm knitting this up for her - the colours are actually darker than this pic!


This yarn is for MY scarf! I love these browns - these pictures don't do the colours of this yarn justice!

and next i'm working on...


Yep! MORE dishcloths! I'm actually doing these for my special swap buddy - thought they would be nice to tuck into her package! Then after that NO more dishcloths for awhile - even though I have one heck of a cotton stash going on!

and now a future project update....


My granddaughter Havana - I'm hoping to buy her yarn for her mitred square blanket next week! Keep your fingers crossed for me - here she is today with her Little Mermaid crown on - her mom was out buying her the movie! lol and she was getting ready for it!


And there you have the complete update on what's going on with me! I hope everyone out there is knitting up a storm!

take care
Kim