A new day, a new home..

Hello friends,

After much to do and an angry email to Google, I have a new blog address and this one will be inactive as of this evening.

I think you all will be happier with the new site, I know I am!! Here I am:

www.needletoneedle.wordpress.com

I just did my first post and I will be tweaking along the way. As always, I welcome your comments.

Happy Knitting,
Michele

Dear Google.....

I use to really like you. But now you have messed with my life and that is not cool. All the problems I have been having accessing my blog were Google problems. Google is connected to my email and that connects to my blog...I just see problems. So, I will be leaving this site soon. I will give you all the info as soon as I have it. I promise things with me much, much better. Knitting updates: Citron is in need of another skein....! I will get that tomorrow. Color Affection should be cast on tonight, since I am out of yarn....booo! Sock still on the needles. Seriously distracted.... Happy Knitting!

Been busy.....

I have been very busy in a different fibery way. I have been exploring the world of hand dyeing your own yarn. It has interested me for awhile and some of my fiber friends were kind to donate some naked yarn for me to play with.

And play with it I did. The first one I dyed the entire skein with different food color gels that I use when I make my Christmas cookies. It came out pretty neat. The second skein I broke up to 3 skeins and dyed them in Cool Aid...this too was fun.

Hubby and I were talking and if I wanted to take this to the next level....Acid Dyes....I needed to get alternate supplies. I love my All Clad pans, but putting acid dye into them was not how I wanted to see them used. So off to the flea market we went with my list of needs. Some we got, some we didn't. Before we left, I had the forethought to soak a skein so it would be ready when I got home.

I grabbed my lobster pot and went to work on some beautiful naked yarn. I used the stove top method with the acid dye and I am in LOVE. The color is gorgeous and this method is my favorite.

The next step is hand painting the yarn. I can hardly wait. This will be a during the week event when I have the house to myself.

The laptop is working, but Google is a hot ass mess. They are chaning their format for the blogs and it is making everything a pain. I have a ton of pictures, but if I ask my hubbymone more computer related question, I think he might loose his mind. Poor guy has been working on it for days....

So, that's what I have been busy doing.

Happy Knitting!!

Frustrating Friday.....

Frustrated, you bet. The laptop came back last night. I didn't get to check it out until this morning. Still can't get to my blog from the piece of shit the computer is now becoming. Called hubby and said, still sucks. He got the hint that I was way less than happy. I went around taking pictures of all the things I wanted to show you and nope, nothing. I need to get off this topic before I hurt someone. One a lighter and happier note, my small shawls group is doing the Color Affection shawl on Ravelry and we had lots of fun on Wednesday night putting colors together and enabling others to make this beautiful shawl. Blogger must be messing with it's format, because now everything is different and I can't get a link to work. They want feedback, I am just the woman to do it. I really dislike it when my technical world goes wonky on me. Citron is almoste done...yeah, I've been saying that for days. I've been spending quite a bit of time on the Internet doing research on some new topics that have me quite smitten and somewhat distracted. A future post for sure. I'm off to do something. Maybe a little cleaning, knitting, winding. I did clean the 1/2 bath and the kitchen sink, so I think that does it for the cleaning portion of my day. :-} Happy knitting~

Wip Wednesday....

Still no laptop...there are just no words. Except the ones I screamed at my husband last night.

Citron is almost done. It's really cute, I wish you could see it!!!

I am iching to work on the newest shawl, Color Affection, on Ravelry. I have my colors, I am ready to rock and roll, but I have to finish the Citron first. I am really doing well at the faithful knitting......except I started a sock....ROFL....I haven't knit on it much. :-/

The next few day are littered with doctor appointments and work, busy, busy.

Maybe if you all pray for pictures, they might appear.

Happy Knitting!!!

Hermitville....

I made a conscious effort to get out of the house early today. It was worth it. I saw friends at the shop that I haven't been able to spend time with due to the month of illness, which is what I am calling February!! When you are home for so long, hermitville kind of sets in....this is not so good.

I am almost done with the Citron shawlette and I already have the yarn for my next project, Color Affection. I will be using Madeline Tosh Light in 3 different colors. I am very excited about this next shawl....really, aren't I always!!!

I thought the laptop was fixed...but it's not. I took it out of hubby's hands and am going to be driving it to Best Buy where the Geek Squad can mess with it.

I have a shawl to finish and a short row toe of a sock to complete, so off I go.

Happy knitting!!!