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I love it when a plan comes together, even accidentally

Thanks to everyone that gave me advice and ideas about my sadly felted purse. I now know a lot more about felting. See the comments of my felting post. Good tip from A Bag of Olives , "the piece USUALLY (but not always) shortens lengthwise about 30% more than width-wise." My husband is a drummer and plays in a percussion ensemble. They were playing that night and as were walking out he looks at my bag and says "are you making me a stick bag ?", well, you know any good spouse who needs to stall for time repeats the question "making you a stick bag"? And the light bulb went off above my head. {For anyone that doesn't know this is kind of a purse for your drum sticks and other drumming items.} Husband "and it matches my drums!" Giggles from me at this point, I love it when good karma comes back to me! My pitiful bag was to become a one of a kind accidental "stick bag", thanks to Spin, Knit and Life who gave me the advice to refelt an

Look what the mailman brought me!

I got some yarn from Where is she now? She ran a pass it on, three prizes contest. I won some yarn! Yea!!! I decided to turn mine into fibery goodness for 3 months. I'm going to run one giveaway in the months of April, May and June. You can enter the April giveaway for sock yarn here . Luck to you! This is what I got.. May your needles fly as fast as Dragonflies... Technorati Tags: Sockotta sock yarn give away , where is She Now? , knitting

Need socks?....

It's spring, and who doesn't need to knit a new pair of socks! Leave a comment on this post, and I will have my husband randomly draw a name on April 30th. You will win one skein of Sockotta Yarn, color 605 , Blue Harvest. Happy Spring! Happy Knitting! May your needles fly as fast as dragonflies.... Technorati Tags: Sockotta sock yarn give away , enter for sock yarn here , free sock yarn , knitting socks a