Scratching the Knitting Itch

Craft2.0 is hosting some splendiferous workshops.

However, best place to find out about it is over at the Craft2.0 blog.

Yours truly is hosting a series of ‘How to Knit Socks’ workshops, complete with stash bag, yarn, needles, pattern, and all the fun things you need.

However Yours Truly is also running late, so pop over to Craft2.0 to check out the details.

Hooray!

Last night the boy was hassling me for not paying him enough attention, and joked that he should hang himself up with my wool so that I focus on him just for a minute. He said I was ‘Wool nuts’, to which I replied, what like walnuts?

It is pretty nuts right now – all hands on deck to get the Yarn Club out (there are a few places left, if you’re quick, you might nab one!).

So here is a warm fuzzy story to keep you entertained in the meantime…though I was trying to spot some Knitsch yarns in there as they panned around the shop 😉

Taking a brief moment away from knitting, i’m catching up on reading some of the 200-odd blog posts sitting in my Reader that have been building up.

Once upon a time, when I was new to blog land, I spent hours reading blogs, going far back into histories to understand who each blogger ticked. I would eagerly anticipate new posts, commenting left right and centre. It was how I got to know Nikki, Louise and Martha, among lots of others.

These days I lament not having the time of attention span to ‘get to know’ all the bloggers I follow – mainly I focus on beautiful images, colours and short snippets of words.

Which started me thinking – I would like to get to know you better. What are your blog-reading habits? Can you admit to being a blog stalker? What are your favourite colours, yarn bases, patterns? Where are you from?

Shall I start?
Blog habits – i’m a skimmer right now. But I used to be an investigator – looking deep!
Blog stalker – yep!
Fave colour – yellow in life, green or orange in yarn (not together)
Fave yarn base – merino! Merino and silk, merino and cashmere, anything just a bit luxurious
Fave pattern – Cookie A’s Monkeys, and anything in my Ravelry queue!
Where from – Wellington, NZ. But I was born in New Plymouth, NZ, have lived in Melbourne, Australia, Methven, Canterbury NZ, and London.

Off you go! Share!

Hooray! We have two winners for the It’s a Tree super amazing awesome prize draw!

and

With over 500 contributions I was biting my nails a bit to see who was going to win – and at the last minute decided to do a second chance draw as well – although if I had my way everyone would get something. But the random number generator turned up 158 and 427 (you’ll have to believe me – the screen shot doesn’t work on this laptop).

And – the Flights of Fancy Yarn Club goes on sale today!

Flights of Fancy Yarn Club is up on the online shop!

It looks sold out…but it most certainly isn’t. It’s waiting for Wednesday morning…

There will be 2 releases:

15 subscriptions will be released at 9.30am, and another 15 at 8pm NZ time.

Have a great weekend everyone – i’m off to play in Sydney before coming back to dye all your yarn club goodness!

xx