Sandhill Cranes and Shawlettes

The past couple weeks have been busy- birthdays, Mother's Day, stairs, and exploding stockpot bottles.    On my Mother's birthday we went to Texas Roadhouse and when we walked out the door to leave a Sandhill crane was staring back at me, just hanging out.

Tuesday I was helping a friend move some things and one of the elevators broke so I ended up walking 27 flights of stairs.  I'll be feeling that today.  Then I was dyeing yarn and in the midst of measuring out some yellow from the stock bottle there is a loud pop and next thing I know I have yellow dye all over my arms, the bottle had broken.

So onto better things.  I finished the Vintage Colors Shawlette.

I also had a chance to weave up some little squares of Sprout, the Embers and Caribbean blue are 9 epi, and the Purple Haze 18epi, which would be great for twill.

I've started a Ribby Shell from Chic Knits made out of Cotton Classic.  I'm also working on the shawl pattern for Sprout!  I can't wait to finish it, so you can see it!

New techniques finished projects and peacocks

I've been a bad blogger I didn't write anything last week, but I did accomplish things.

Thanks to Jenna I can now tat.  I still have things to work on like getting my rings close to my double stitches  when I finish them.  The picture below is about as close as I can get my ring, if I don't tie my ring into a knot.  But I have to have a quick learning curve because I have a time sensitve project to finish for a dear friend.  

 I finished two projects, the Ilene Bag and the baby blanket.

Both were quick projects that were fun to do. I'm coming along on the Vintage Colors Shawlette.

Once you train your brain to look at the half charts its a pretty quick knit.

So since I finished two projects and I'm more than half way through, I started one.  A washcloth out of Hemp for Knitting.

As a parting shot, a peacock on my house.  They don't normally live in my area.  But I thought I heard one.  Jordan walked outside and saw someone taking pictures of our house, so he turns around and sees a peacock looking back at him.  He caught this photo as the peacock hopped from roof to roof down the street.

New Colors and new projects

So I have new colors: Aqua, Hydrangea, Lilac, and Robin Egg.  I've accomplished one of my resolutions! I've created over 20 new colorways.

I'm working on the back of my mitered square cardigan, I'm a quarter of the way in.

I also started two new projects: a baby blanket and a market bag-the Ilene bag.

This is only part of the baby blanket, I'm almost done with it.

The Ilene bag I'm doing with a three color stripe out of cotton.  I just started it but the pattern is pretty easy to follow and it's working up quickly with the color change.  You can find it for free on Ravelry if you want to try it out.

We have tshirts and new colorways!!

It'll be short sweet and to the point this week.  We have The Fiber Seed shirts!!!

They are $35 each.  Email me at  lindsay@thefiberseed.com if you are interested.   We have S, M, L, XL, 2X. The size pictured is a M. Proceeds go towards buying a new range, 4 burners are better than 1. That means more fabulous yarn!

As for yarn, you need to stop by the Knit 'n Knibble this Saturday I have 6 new colorways coming.  I'll spill some of the names.  Rip Tide, South Beach, and Melon. Riptide is pictured below.

Now see you should have both of the things in this picture-the shirt and yarn!

You should really go Saturday, it's Autism Awareness Month and every Saturday in April 10% of the sales made that day go towards sponsoring Caroline's family in Atlanta as they participate in "Walk Now for Autism Speaks"  event.  They named their group "Braeden's Buccaneers" after her grandson who is autistic.  He is a real sweetheart and showing your support would be awesome.  

Stage fright and wingspans

I have been working on a video for The Fiber Seed.  I'll tell you why later.  All I know is that it is very difficult for me to talk on camera and get the words I want to say out of my mouth.  If I'm trying to be goofy I have no problem in front of the camera, but if I'm trying to be serious it is a completely different story.  I stumble over my words and sometimes I get on a role and then the word I want to use decides to up and leave my vocabulary vault. But with the magic of iMovie, you can make it look like I have no problem at all! I love it!  But on to the projects...

I finished the front of my mitered square cardigan. I will post a picture next week when I have all the ends woven in, it looks like a horrible mess right now.

I have a surprise project that I finished, someone else started it, but I finished it.  It's a wingspan out of Noro Taiyo sock and man it is amazing! There are even beads in it!

BTW keep on the look out for new colors in the next few weeks!

Scorched popcorn and finished projects

Let me tell you a short story.  It involves my sister, my microwave and a bag of popcorn.  I had just gotten back from my trip and my sister and I were going to watch a movie.  She went to put the popcorn into the microwave and I went into the bedroom to change out of my pajamas and into my lounging clothes...day pajamas.  In the mean time my sister has punched the pretimed popcorn button and walked away from the microwave to help my husband load pictures onto facebook in another room.  ::she isn't watching or listening to the popcorn::  The next thing I hear is her yelling "Lindsay, help, quick!!" Jordan and I race to her and find the whole front of our house filled with so much white smoke you would have thought the conclave had convened in my home and decided on the new pope and forgot that I didn't have a chimney. In a split second my husband opens the microwave grabs the heavily smoking bag of popcorn and throws it out the back door.  All the while I'm running around opening windows, doors, and grabbing a box fan trying to get the smoke out and away from the smoke alarm...which didn't go off because someone took out the battery...

After about a half hour of the entire house being opened up and all the fans going (mind you its not warm outside at all) the smoke was gone.  After about 3 hours the kitchen smelled like toasted marshmallows instead of scorched popcorn.  I went outside a little later and walked past the bag of popcorn and for a second thought "why is there a bag of popcorn in my yard...oh yea".   I was curious and opened it up to see how badly the popcorn had burned...it was a solid black block of scorched kernels.  Needless to say I threw it away, not even the squirrels wanted it.


On the project front- I finished 2 projects this week, while still in Ohio.
A crocheted baby blanket.

The multidirectional scarf made from Hydra.

Both of which stayed in Ohio.

I got to start a special new project....a shawl made out of Sprout! Now I can't show you the progress because, well, I'm designing it to be a pattern for all you beautiful people out there with a skein of Sprout and no shawl pattern.  I can say that the construction is not your traditional way of making a shawl and that I'm making it out of Ochre and toying with adding Midsummer Night to it. Hmmm, decisions.  

I think I'll add making a collection of patterns to my resolutions list....because I'm close to crossing off make 20 new colorways this year!! Only one to go before I hit 20 new ones...I think I'll go to 27 and stop for the year.  I haven't produced my new yarn line yet but I have picked out the content and color palette for it! You may hear whispers in the near future!

Snow day!

Well surprisingly I slept more on the road trip than I knit.  I brought a crocheted baby blanket that I'm almost done with.  I also started working on a shawl pattern for all you out there with Sprout yarn just waiting for the perfect project!  In other news I am going cross eyed looking at houses up here.  I wish the perfect one would just jump out and slap me and say "hey, stop looking, here I am."  But then I wouldn't trust my home after it had done that. Good thing houses don't talk or slap.  

 So that new colorway picture, is at home where I am not... so you'll have to wait, sorry!  Tyler unfortunately didn't make it.  So here's a picture to see who a great new colorway is named after.

On to happier things, I had my first snow day!! 

 Jordan and I got up early and layered up, seeing as we had no snow gear.  Yoga pants are surprisingly just as warm as long johns and a little more stylish too.  We were outside for about an hour and half, doing all your snow day activities...

.....shoveling the driveway

 .....scooping the 4 inches of snow off your car

 ....snowball fights, snow angels, and running around in the snow playing with the dogs.

So as crazy as this trip has been, it has been a blast.  Only a few more days before it's back to the warm sunshine.