Samples are done

These cute little knit pumpkins are the samples that I knitted for Smoky Mountain Spinnery. The pattern and yarn are from Farmhouse Yarns. I loved the yarns. and the pattern was great. You can make one in a couple of hours. The size of the pumpkins depend on the size of your needles and the fullness of the pumpkin is dependent on how much stuffing you use, so you can be really creative. It was just so much fun to knit these.

Feeling like YUCK

Last week my daughter came in room and she looked horrible. You know that look you get when you are sick. Well her symptoms lasted about 5 days. Typical cold for her. Then Thursday afternoon I started feeling "funny." A little sore throat but mostly an uncomfortable feeling in my lungs. I knew I had caught it too when that feeling hit. For some reason when I catch something it always goes to my lungs. So Friday I woke up to having no voice and the yucky feeling you have when you got a cold. Today is a little better though. I still have no voice, but I'm moving around pretty good and I'm hungry.

Hopefully I can get some knitting done today, because I didn't feel good enough to even pick up needles yesterday.

Have a great weekend and stay healthy!

Excited

This morning on the way back from getting my car repaired I decided to cheer myself up with the purchase of some roving or some delicious fiber of some kind. So I stopped in at Smoky Mountain Spinnery. When I pulled in Nancy, the owner was putting out her fall decorations. Note: around here, Fall is a BIG deal and every shop, hotel and store decorates for Fall and puts out Fall scenes almost like Christmas decor. Anyway, inside I got to again walk through and feel all those fabulous fibers, as if I had never been there before. ;-) As we talked she brought up again me knitting some samples for her shop. Since I have some time now I jumped on the chance to work with some yarn that I have never worked with. She handed me a pattern, 3 hanks of yarn all from Farmhouse Yarns, LLC, and out the door I went. Happy, excited and ready to toss everything aside to start knitting with this yarn. LOL. I will post pictures when I'm finished. Today was a good day. Smile.