WIP Wednesday

Amazingly enough there is actual progress on the Girl Friday sweater. I have finished the back, the left side and most of the right side.



This project is moving along fairly quickly (for me anyway). I would have had the right side finished last night but we were watching Angels and Demons and I didn't want to leave the movie long enough to go get another ball of yarn! Yes, I know I could have paused it but that would have ruined the momentum, ya know? It was a pretty good movie! It actually followed the book really well. Of course, you don't get the level of detail in the movie that you get in the book but it was definitely an action packed thriller!

Today Wayne will be baking more apple pies to take to my dad's house tomorrow. We are expecting a pretty laid back day. We'll be going over there early and visiting and then probably heading back fairly early as well since we'll be leaving Petey here.

Speaking of Petey - here's a few shots of the Petemeister:

Lounging on the dock



Swimming after his toy in our pond



Lounging on the patio with his BFF Slim

What a life, eh?

Early Thanksgiving

First of all - there are new yarn bowls up on the site again!

We headed out to my cousin's house in Rome, GA for an early Thanksgiving celebration with the family. However, we are terrible bloggers because I don't think a single one of us took any pictures! We had a great time though. As predicted, Wayne and I again lost all of our money to the family peeps in cards. Good thing we only pay $3 to get in a game! So, we lost a total of $6 - not too bad but ya know - we never win! I think it's fixed.

Amazingly, I didn't even eat too much! Which really wasn't too difficult since there was a lot of meat involved. Wayne made his famous homemade apple pie! We figured that if we made two and generously brought both we would end up going home with at least one. Not so. Our other pie was confiscated by my cousin - she didn't even ask either - just told us - "Oh, I'll be keeping that pie!". It's probably best. We don't need to be eating all of that pie anyway!

As always we had a great time playing cards with a lot of laughing, goofing off and making fun of each other - it isn't really too hard with our crowd. We had a healthy mix of Democrats and Republicans so that always makes for a lively debate. Seriously - I don't understand how some of these people even stay married! :) It was a good time - even though the Redskins lost - AGAIN. Sheesh. I have actually seen that some people have Redskins related projects on Ravelry that are in hibernation until the Redskins start playing like a real team! Guess they will be hibernating until next season.

My son and his girlfriend got to go with us so it was nice to visit with them for a while. My elusive brother actually showed up as well with his new girlfriend. My cousin said to me "Well, do you know if Bob is bringing Paige?" I was like - ummmm........who's Paige? That made her feel better because she had only found out the day before about my brother's girlfriend Paige who he has been dating for 8 months apparently. She felt out of the loop but when she realized that I was even MORE out of the loop she felt much better. He does not really tell us much as you can see!

For the "real" Thanksgiving we are headed to my dad's house so that will be fun too. Until then I'll be finishing my wholesale yarn order for Only Ewe and Cotton Too and working on the new club project which we will hopefully be able to launch next week!!! What's everyone else up to this week???

Updates!

Knit Witch 2010 Club News

We have made some changes to our clubs for 2010. Namely, we have made a definitive sign up period instead of having rolling sign up (namely to save my own sanity - I’ll be completely honest with you!). The sign ups for all of the clubs are now up and sign up for 2010 will be open until December 15th. There will also be a limit on the number of people that I accept into the club this time so if you are REALLY interested be sure you sign up before December 15th. There will be more luxury fibers in next year's sock club!

If you need to know when your current club membership expires just email me at theknitwitch@gmail.com and I'll be glad to let you know.

Also - we have another club surprise coming up soon so I’ll let you know about it as soon as I have the details. We are working furiously on this project. So, don’t rush into purchasing the club just yet because you are going to have one more option soon!!!

IF YOU ARE ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR A CLUB - you are already in - assuming that your club membership extends into 2010, so not to worry. We will make special arrangements with you if your membership runs out in 2010 and you would like to continue.

Shipping changes

Knit Witch is now offering a flat $3 shipping price on ALL PRODUCTS!! Knit Witch yarn bowls and yarn make great gifts for your friends.......just sayin'...............

Shawl Pin

I found this on Etsy.......................



Isn't it beautiful!!! I love it! I got it to go with the Girl Friday sweater since I have opted to not put buttons on it. I thought a shawl pin would be so much more chic don't you think??? Well, whatever. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! :)

If I'm not mistaken, this is made out of oak. I got it from Wooden Treasures where it is, of course, hand crafted. One of the things that I love about this shawl pin is that the pin itself is not straight so it won't pull out of the fabric easily. Also, I love how lightweight it is. The price was reasonable and the shipping was fast. Last time I looked he had a few more left. They are all unique designs and colors so I love that too!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!! We have a date on Friday night to go do some sooper seekrit family restaurant snooping (more about that when I have details and can spill some beans) and then we have an early Thanksgiving celebration in Rome with my family on Sunday. We are really looking forward to that - always a good time. As you may remember from last year we usually lose all our money playing cards. Hopefully my aunt will at least keep the salt and sesame oil out of the whipped cream this year and stick to the sugar and vanilla. Sheeesh! Wayne will be making another one of his famous apple pies with fresh N. GA apples - YUM!!!!

Just a bunch of random stuff

LOOK! I have a new keyboard!

Fancy, eh?

We made some applesauce with some yummy fresh N. GA apples!!

Did you know that a candle will melt if it is left on your porch and the sun is in the right place in the sky to shine directly into your porch onto said candle?

Has anyone seen my desk? I can't seem to find it.

Note to self: Get to work on the wholesale order for Only Ewe and Cotton Too! so that I can get all of this BFL off of my desk!

WIP Wednesday

So...................the back for my Girl Friday sweater is finished! I finished the arm hole decreases so I just need to bind off. I started on the right side on Monday night too so that's coming along as well!



Also, have I shown you this?




We made a path to our pond with some of the left over flagstone from the patio. It still needs a little work but it's a start. Right when you get close to the dock it gets a little too steep for these and since we don't really want anyone walking down to our pond and landing on their butt from steep, slippery rocks (namely us) we need another solution for the end of the path. We'll probably end up making a few steps down there.

We are working hard on getting all the yarn back in stock that sold out at SAFF. I have also been working on a couple of wholesale orders so the restocking has been a little slow going. Plus, I have a couple of new projects that I have been working on that I will hopefully be able to tell you about in a couple of weeks. We did manage to get some new bowls up on the site and we are still working through the custom orders.

Tabby Tuesday

Note - this blog title shamlessly stolen from Cristi

Someone last week mentioned that I needed to post pictures of the kitty who was trying to get his nose pinched by the crayfish last week. And, I got to thinking that I haven't had the cats on the blog for a while - and what's a good knitting blog without kitties, right? The knitting isn't necessarily imperitive but the kitties are. Plus, I know I have gained a bunch of new subcribers lately so I'm sure that you all want to see the kitties too, right??

First up is "Mr. I am probably going to get my toe pinched by this crayfish" Slim.

Then we have the twins - Willow and Goose. Neither one of them are really that fond of us I don't think (read: ferral!) but they do occasionally grace us with their presence when they are cold, tired or hungry. We do bring them in every night so that they don't get consumed by bears, coyotes, large snapping turtles, crayfish, etc.

Willow (we call her Missy because it is just so much easier to say) is in the closest box. Her twin brother Goose is napping in the box behind her. He was so tired from playing outside all day that I couldn't even get him to pick his head up for the picture. They ARE both actually tabbys so they qualify for the post - they are just buff colored so their stripes are really subtle.

Here is Goose looking a bit annoyed about being woken up for a picture.

Oh and remember when I asked you to see what you thought the latest pottery was last week?

Well this is the final product.

This is a spindle holder made especially for Kate of Dragonfly Fibers! I mailed it off to her yesterday so I can't wait for her to get it! We will start carrying these because I think they make beautiful spindle and/or needle holders! I will let you all know when they are available.