Author: Chauntel Ensey
~Happy Mother’s Day~
To all the Mothers in my Fiberly.
Have a blessed & loved Mother’s Day!!
Le Tour de Sock Registration~ Check!
I am doing it this year. 6 pair of socks, speed knitting, challenging patterns, hand-dyed yarns, count me in!!
Here are a few of the details:
Have fun and raise money for a worthy cause in this speed-knitting competition based on the famous bike race with a similar name! Competitors will race to finish a pair of socks in each of six stages earning points for finishing the fastest. Registration fees (less paypal and shipping expenses for prizes) will go to Doctors Without Borders to help continue their excellent work of providing medical care to those in need around the globe.
Total Donated to Date (over 2 years):
$4,069.62
I am also very excited about the sponsors; 3 of which I am giddy over!
Love of my life. These yarns are amazing. I am planning to use ASC yarns for all the socks in the race but we’ll see just how well that works out. Crossing my fingers!!
Funny enough, I just bought my first hank of Dragonfly Fibers Dragon Sock yarn. The colors are to die for and I can’t wait to knit with it. Chances are it’s going to be a shawl & not a pair of socks for TdS but I can get more if I need to!
For years I have loved Miss Babs yarns. Unfortunately I don’t have any in my stash at the moment, it was all lost in the storage unit. Usually I stock up at Stitches West but I haven’t made it in 2 years. Le sigh.
I haven’t been excited over a challenge like this in a long time. June 1st is going to take forever to get here! Not really, I know, time is flying by.
Swap Package for Caffeinatedfrenzy
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I love swaps! I sent out a package last week & in my excitement I forgot to take pictures!
Luckily, the recipient, Caffeinatefrenzy on Ravelry, took a ton of photos & posted them.While my next batch of coffee is brewing, I thought I’d share (read: brag) about some of my goodies. I took sooo many pictures.
Everything was wrapped in polka dot paper :). This package had absolutely perfect timing. I threw a little tea party last night where I got all dressed up, and was able to use my new nail polish (these are like little stickers with bright flower designs on them, made out of nail polish. They smooth right onto your nails, and voila!), my new burt’s bee’s lip balm (the natural hue is absolutely perfect for my pale skin) and serve tea on my cute new coasters! I also cooked with my hot pink new spoons and measuring spoons.
And look at these little boxes! They were filled with gorgeous stitch markers she made herself, a pin, a keychain, some handmade face scrubbies.
The cowl she made me is in almost every photo I took, because, well, look at it. 🙂 (I wore that to my tea party, too!) I haven’t even gotten to the deliciousness and all the handmades and fun little things yet, but I have to run off to work. But I felt this package deserved a thank you thank you thank you as soon as possible! |
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But wait, there’s more! 🙂 I’m probably not the easiest swappee, I have no blog, twitter, and am always deleting my facebook, and don’t post all that much on here. But firebrunette still nailed it!
Socks that match the scarf! And some gorgeous sock yarn in pink and a painted white/pink that coordinates. A lovely little notebook, marshmellows shaped like cupcakes, some mike and ikes, tootsie rolls, and some of them were wrapped in a cute little reusable pink bag.
She also made me a mug! She also found a book filled with poetry/art and illustrations that I’ve been drooling over on amazon. It will definitely be great inspiration! And the coffee! I tried it for the first time this morning. It’s super fresh, brewed 3/29, and tastes amazing. I don’t typically put anything in good coffee but creamer, but those cupcake marshmellows, I couldn’t resist 🙂
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This Girl Got Goodies!
So once a year I do one of the Caffeine Addicts group swaps. It tends to be the spring swap for some reason. I had so much fun putting together the package for Kelsey, which I will post next.
Calling CaffeinatedFrenzy!! I got a package!!
And it’s filled with goodies!
Sewing notions! The cutest yellow ribbon, buttons!! I love buttons! And the zipper is so cool I will have a hard time finding a project worthy of its use.
How cute is this ribbon bag that contained all of the sewing notions? I am hoping I can use it to hold a sock project & not have the needles ruin the ribbon. I guess I am going to actually have to use point protectors!
The yarn is smooshy & soft & there is enough to make myself a nice fat cowl/infinity scarf. The second I saw it I knew what pattern I wanted to use but I have work to do so I can’t cast on yet, dangit.
Kindle/tablet stand…
Look how cute the kindle cover is!! I have a great button to put on it. I am so happy I don’t have to knit one for myself ;o)
This beaded bracelet is gorgeous! And the perfect color to go with pretty much every single thing I wear.
This basket will be perfect for me to keep my set of crochet coasters in.
Thank you so much Kelsey!!
It’s such a fun package. Now to put all of my goodies to use…
Comic Con Geurilla Yarn Bombing
I am starting squares soon!! I have a couple of projects already on a time deadline so it may be a week or two but I am so doing this. I think I will dedicate one skein of at least one color. How many squares do you think I can get out of a Super Saver Red Heart skein? We’ll see!!
YARNBOMB PROJECT: “RUBIX CUBE PARK”
I haven’t finished making up the advertisements to go with the Comic Con project, however the ball needs to get moving! I will need 2,700 squares and ANYONE/SKILL level can help. I need 450 squares in each of the colors listed below. I chose a specific brand and colors for this project to keep it all cohesive. Who doesn’t have a skein of Red Heart laying around, right?
Yarn: RED HEART
RED: Hot Red ID# 0390 (Super Saver)
YELLOW: Bright Yellow ID# 0324 (Super Saver)
ORANGE: Pumpkin ID# 0254 (Super Saver)
GREEN: Paddy Green ID# 0368 (Super Saver)
BLUE: Blue ID# 0886 (Super Saver)
WHITE: White ID# 0311 (Super Saver)
SQUARE PATTERN
Hook: I
Form a magic ring OR ch 6 and join with SL ST
Round 1: Ch 3, 2 DC in ring, TR in ring, * 3 DC in ring, TR in ring, repeat from * twice more, join with SL ST to the top of beginning Ch 3
Round 2: Ch 3, * DC in each DC to TR, ( 2 DC, TR, 2 DC) in TR. Repeat from * three more times
Repeat round 2 until square reaches 7.5 inches
Finish off and weave in ends!
Squares can be mailed to:
Crochet Grenade
PO BOX 17188
San Diego CA 92177
Deadline for squares: June 25th
It will be installed guerrilla style, w/no permission, in the middle of downtown San Diego, during Comic Con. I am asking for 2,700 7.5 inch crocheted squares. I will be making an event page for all who want to help. More details about it will be made available in the upcoming days or week, but if you’d like to participate then let me know so I can send you an event invite.
Thanks so much for your interest and I look forward to collaborating!
Crochet Grenade
Caffeine Addicts swap
Baby Sundress…Just in time for Spring
I love how this precious little dress turned out.
I used a feather & fan stitch pattern for the skirt, decreased to a seed stitch ‘belt’, worked the yoke top and then another additional green seed stitch border at the top. I-cord ties with leafy shaped ends and a bit of a frilly crochet edge along the top edge.
Obviously you can see I had a difficult time getting accurate color in the photos. The second photo up is the most accurate for both the green and the lavendar.
This is a custom piece commissioned by my sister in law for the baby girl in a set of twins that will be born to a family in Cambodia in June.
Next up, finish up the boys outfit…
Pretty Pink Pony & A Hat
This is Sadie in her Hannah hat from Magknits & her pretty pink ponytail.
I used Microspun from my stash for the hat. I think she’ll need another one out of superwash wool for her winter runs.
