Maybe some people just aren't cut out to knit...

My brother-in-law is to computers as we are all to knitting.
He sent me this link today.
Seriously, kudos to Merel for being "green" but I think she is missing the point.
Boring??? What has she been knitting?

A Bright Spot!

Road construction is plugging away... Weather was fightful last night...

But...the day was brightened with a box filled with March Hare! Glorious colorways...Italian Plums, Hawaiian Shave Ice, Pesto, Pumpkin Patch, Driftwood, Mahogany, Spanish Lavender, Glacier...and our favorite...Fiddlehead Fern!

July Classess...

...are up! Check them out here.

On Green Street

Downtown Kenosha is holding "Bloomin' Days" this weekend. It's a great celebration of music, food and fun. As part of "Bloomin' Days", GREEN STREET will feature exhibits and wokshop about alternative energy, gardening, recycling and other great eco-friendly activities like KNITTING!!

Fiddlehead Yarns will be on GREEN STREET (on 6th Avenue A, between 59th and 60th streets) teaching everyone that walks by how to knit tomorrow (Saturday the 6th)!

Grab your knitting and join us! We will be there from 10am to 6pm. Sit and knit or teach someone else to knit! We'll all be there and hope to see you too!

Dressed For The Weather

This weather is so iffy. One day it's a scorcher and then next...bust out your winter coat. Out for a walk yesterday, the 3-footer's brother needed a better hat. We grabbed some new lucious cotton and worked this up. He loves it, can you tell?

Stop in the shop, grab some Araucania Ulmo (ravelry link) and cast on for your favorite 0-6 monther!
Jack-in-the-Pulpit Cotton Hat
Directions:
CO 90 sts, PM and join untwisted.
Work in 1 x 1 rib for 4 ½ “
Decrease:
*K 15, dbl dec; repeat from * to end of rnd
Knit
*K 13, dbl dec; repeat from * to end of rnd

Continue in this manner until *K3, dbl dec* rnd.
After completing this rnd, *K1, dbl dec*, omitting the K rnd. (10 sts remain)
Cut yarn and run through all sts. With a darning needle, weave in ends.

Abbreviations:
dbl dec slip 2 stitches together (knitwise), purl 1, pass slipped stitch over

More Sock Knitting Fun

Saturday is the second and final installment of our Cookie-A-Along. If you didn't join us 2 weeks ago, there's still time!
Sock Innovation was out of print already but we managed to score a bunch of copies as soon as they were reprinted. If you haven't gotten yours yet, now is the time! Call the shop to have yours put aside.
Those? My Kai-Mei's from the book. ...now to decide on the next pair!

Crazy, alright...

With a long drive this past weekend, I brought a bunch of sock yarn with me to knit on. Working on a simple toe-up, 2x2 rib sock is the perfect project to keep me busy while my husband complains that the car ahead of us does not belong in the left lane.

Toe-up socks allow me to get all the work out of the way at once and then cruise right up the leg, letting the yarn do the work.

So after finishing up a pair just north of Madison, I cast on with the new Zauberball Crazy. It's a little different than the plain Zauberball in that 2 colors of yarn are plied together and change fairly frequently.

After turning the heel on the first, I decided to begin the second so I could ration my yarn once I get to the leg. I like playing "chicken" with the yarn, seeing how far I can knit and bind off with as little left as possible. (No, I don't keep any for darning. I would rather knit a new pair than keep a small clump of yarn laying around waiting for a hole to start.) So...I cast on for the second pair with the other end of the ball and what do I find??? ...a completely new color mixture! How fun, huh? Warning: for those of you who must have precisely matching socks...STAY AWAY!