The Giving Flower

Just one more picture from our vacation.
I hadn’t been home very long when the organizing bug hit. Isn’t that what vacation is for, to come home and see how horrible things look and start cleaning and organizing? Well, I started with my double points. I’ve needed a needle case for the longest time and now I finally have one; here it is. Click on a picture to make it bigger.
My sister’s good friend, Deb, used to sew and doesn’t have the time anymore, so she’s trying to get rid of boxes of material. When I heard this I gave her one of my I-need-material-to-live face, and she promptly brought me three boxes to sort through. This blue flowered material came in a whole bolt and I just love it. It reminds me of the 80′s. I put a pink ribbon under the pockets so I can write the size of the needles in front of each pocket. I haven’t gotten that far yet, though. Now onto a circular needle case-it’s in the works.
Just a few more goodies from the States which I just had to have. I was so disapointed earlier this summer when I went to my local yarn shop to buy some markers and they said they don’t use them here! How come?? I called everywhere frantically trying to find some. Eventually I gave up and my mom sent me some. Thank goodness for my knitting mom. This made me decide I would go home to the States and find all the fun things I could possibly need this year and stock up. So as you can see that’s just what I did.

Look at these finds, of course if you live in the States, near a good knitting store and Walmart you don’t need to get excited, but I sure am. I just love these plastic pins to pin together sweater pieces. I’ve used them already to sew my minisweater together, and now I wouldn’t go without them.

Aren’t these sock needle toppers great? I bought some for my mom and plan planned on giving some away because they are cute and very useful, especially when knitting lace when you decide you need to put the laundry in the dryer, and don’t want any of those valuable stitches to fall off the needle until you return. Just plop one of these on the ends and your stitches are safe, too cool.

Here is the promised picture of my finished black minisweater which I lengthened and added cables to. The picture is not the best, click to enlarge, but black is tough to photograph and I wanted the cables in. Notice the ribbon as a closure, I like this much better than the button. This sweater is so cozy.
Tomorrow is my birthday, I hope something knitty or sewy comes my way. If you happen to be in the neighborhood stop by for carrot cake! I think I’ll have a dinner party for the girls next week, I absolutely forgot about tomorrow being my birthday until Christina mentioned me coming to breakfast and by then it was too late to plan. Now I think I’ll have a girls’ night with dinner next week. No kids, no husbands, just girls and food. I wish I could say knitting but the knitting bug hasn’t hit my friends yet, so that might not go over too well. I’ve tried everything I know to get them into it. We’ll see, I haven’t given up yet.