Episode 41: Merry Christmas!

Jetsetting:

Shelter man car port for the car. 3 hours, turned into 7... horrible directions. augusta for lunch, truck gas cap disaster, truck remote programming, all presents arrived safely. I Love having time off. Trip cancelled on Tuesday, may be cancelled Friday too! Meaning I might get almost 2 weeks off... PAID! xmas eve - spent working around house and getting honey's present done and watching football! Skyped with my fam back home and laughed and laughed and laughed!  Honey got home late! we opened presents, had christmas lunch and he headed back to work! Mega snow event going on. First of the year... check it out!! Look at my presents, I am so spoiled! I am a blessed woman! Presents or not, I am the luckiest in the world! Merry Christmas!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks 
Wedding Blanket 

Take Off:

Socks! and a gradient shawl

Landed:

Nothing

Ground Stop:

short time between 'casts

Holding Pattern:

None

Reservations:

Knitabulls - traveling woman shawl pattern,
Tamiknits: TGV pattern
Knitterphreek: Juno regina stole/wrap (cardinal lace weight by highland handmades)

Calendar of Hope:  www.fitterknitter.com

Special TFR:

 I'm a lucky woman! Merry Christmas!

Episode 40: Christmas is Here People!

Jetsetting:

Went to see my honey and we took a long ways around drive down to meet up with Heather and her Hubby! Only got to spend a few hours, but know I know where she lives and it is a slight detour on my way home from my honeys, but easy to swing down and see her for a bit! and it breaks up my looooong drive! Gonna be heading out in a few weeks to my cousins wedding.  Not going home for the holidays, gonna have a quiet christmas with my honey.  And by the way, WHY IS FAMILY SO INSENSITIVE AROUND THE HOLIDAYS?!??!!?!? Oi, family drama!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks 
Wedding Blanket 

Landed:

None!

Take off:

Want to knit with my handspun, maybe the shawl


Holding:


None

Ground Stop:


I have lost my mojo.  I am not going to stress myself with finishing that blanket.  and I just don't wanna knit lately.  Oi! I may dig through my UFO bin and get reinspired!

Reservations:

New to me Podcast is the Stockinette Zombies:  They are from MN, my home state and they crack me up.  One is a project ho, and one is a uber monogamous knitter... I tend to be more ho-ish in my knitting... :)

Love out to Wendy and Sheila from the Knit 1, Heart 2 podcast.  I totally admire those women and just wanna send them some podcast love! (I love all my podcasters) Go check them out if you don't already!

MNY Swap package! AWESOME!

Missing a post office package... trying not to panic.  Its nothing irreplaceable, but will be really irritating if its gone! it says delivered and is NOT here! local post office is great and working on it!

Mean Girls Yarn Club: Homerun! I loved it! Great yarn, loved the candle! Thanks Laura!

Thank you to everyone who is shopping on Amazon and linking through the shownotes page.  It is really going to help out the podcast and am so excited to get some goodies to give away for something! :) Please shop away! I even shop on amazon and link through my page! like a discount! hahaa Sincere appreciation!

Special TFR:

Mom's Sugar Cookies and Holiday baking in general

Episode 39: Full of Random

Jetsetting:

Light work week as the plane has been in Maintenance. Drove to Manchester, NH to pick up the plane then had a long weekend with the honey. We had brunch with 2 of his coworkers, and then my company christmas party. Schedules are all over the place and not matching up very well, but we will get some time together!  I spent a couple hours outside of Cleveland Tuesday, had some italian food and back we came! Travel in January to a cousin's wedding but not much else planned! We'll see what work brings.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks 
Wedding Blanket

Landed:

My Christmas Stocking - KATIE

Take Off:

La la's Simple shawl

Ground Stop:

Been productive

Holding:

By golly there is spinning!  CJ Kopec creations... I never remember what kind of fiber it is... or the colorway and everytime she tells me... I forget to write it down.. OI!

Reservations:

15% discount at Desert Vista Dyeworks you use the code: KOTF15  She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out! It is good until Dec 15th, so go grab your Christmas gift now!

Calendar of Hope:  Asked by a Raveler, Cindy Moore(fitterknitter), who is a breast cancer survivor, to mention it and I will!  Go check it out! All donations, minus the paypal fees go to The Army Of Women, which researches Breast Cancer.  You get 13 patterns of Dishcloths and Towels for $18 and it all goes research!

MNY swap package is out to my partner...she got it and loved it! Whew! Still waiting on mine! :) so excited!

Christmas shopping is done for the most part.  A couple people left, but those will be bought online and sent to them at their homes! Christmas party on Sunday for work at an AWESOME restaurant! And my honey gets to be there! YEA!

Might be meeting up with Heather from Highland Handmades

Got my WINNER fiber from Ethereal Fibers, its pretty!

Becky from the Addicted to Yarn podcast has opened her shop and her bags are AWESOME!  Check out her Shop:   Bitchin' Becky's Boutique of Badassery

Special TFR:

Nativity Scene from my childhood!

Click through to Amazon.com and do your shopping and the podcast gets a little bonus to help with costs!! Thanks!

Episode 38: Christmas Time is Here.

Jetsetting:

Went east this week to see my honey, Marden's for bowls to make ceviche and I always look for off the trail crafty things.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks My Christmas Stocking - KATIE

Landed:

Nope!

Take Off:

shawl still

Grd Stop:

Got stuck because I finished things to a point where I had to wait til I got back to continue working on them

Holding:

None :(

Reservations:

15% discount at Desert Vista Dyeworks you use the code: KOTF15  She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out! It is good until Dec 15th, so go grab your Christmas gift now!

Calendar of Hope:  Asked by a Raveler, Cindy Moore(fitterknitter), who is a breast cancer survivor, to mention it and I will!  Go check it out! All donations, minus the paypal fees go to The Army Of Women, which researches Breast Cancer.  You get 13 patterns of Dishcloths and Towels for $18 and it all goes research!

All the Outside decorations are up and house is ready for holidays. I have the urge to bake up a storm, but an not going to until the week before christmas.  I don't need that crap in the house for a month. No no no!

500:  Here is a link for the closest to what we play.  We put 5 in the kitty and we use the jack opposite the trump suit also as a high card. If spades is trump then the Jack of Clubs is high card above the A of spades.  So rank of the trump suit of Spades is: Jokes, Jack of Spades, Jack of Clubs, A,K,Q, etc on down.  we take out the 2 and 3's also.  

Wolfe Farms: Apple Crisp, Cucumber Melon, Vanilla Creme, and Cherry Almond.  I LOVE Cherry Almond! Go check it out! I got mine on her cyber monday and free shipping sale! :)

Amazon Shopping:  If you link to amazon by going to the blog(which is here, obviously) and to go amazon and do your shopping, the podcast gets a small percentage of your purchase... and it doesn't cost you any extra! It helps out me just a little and is greatly appreciated. A few have done it to buy Kindle FIRES and that was awesome! Thanks so much to those that have done it already!

Special TFR:

Christmas Movies and Shows

Towels for D.E.W. Wildlife Kingdom! Look at the box! 13 towels arrived this week, plus some awesome goodies!

Episode 37: Merry Thanksmas

Jetsetting:

Family is here to visit. Went flying, adventuring up the coast, played lots of cards! Honey came back and surprised me and my family knew it was gonna happen. Kitty adjusted well and came out and saw everyone! Work has finally slowed down a little bit! Whew!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks 

Landed:

Honey's Christmas Stocking 

Take Off:

Lapghan for cousin probably

Ground Stop:

Time with family.  I didn't knit a stitch while they were here!

Episode 36: A Quickie

Shownotes Soon with Links!

Episode 35: Hello, My Name Is Ralph

Drawing first for winners of the Ambroso Mittens October KAL with Mommy Needs Yarn! Congrats! Send me a PM with your address!!!

Jetsetting:

Up to meet up with Heather and her hubs at Kilby Ridge Farms. Got some fiber from Elena! Crazy work week: BOS, PHL, TEB(watched movies in their Theater, seriously) Then off to Knittin' In The Mitten. Here is a picture of Little Mr. CJKopec and I. I didn't get it in the show in time.

Stories for many many minutes fill this space. Travel home was EASY! Love it! easy work week this week.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #3
Vanilla Socks

Landed:

Nothing

Take Off:

Shawl of some kind


Ground Stop:

Travel, work a little... but knit a bunch on my socks.

Holding:

Plyed my merino/tencel from Highland Handmades... YEA! now to figure out yardage.  18-20 WPI... not sure what weight that is.


Reservations:


Goodies from the Retreat! So many good vendors! Links follow:

Winding Wool Creek - cotton candy fiber and stitch markers
Wistyria - Wool Sampler Pack
Valley Yarns - 2 skeins in mustard and arctic in our grab bags
CJ Kopec Creations - 2 bumps from her shop in greens, browns, blue and oranges to be plied together
Hornshaw Wood Works - my new WPI tool and I want one of their swifts



Prize from Ethereal Fibers in Ground Pepper in her supernal Sock Yarn

Gift from Susan and Savannah of their Mono Gradient in the Purpleberry colorway. You guys are awesome. We are going to do a coupon for 15% off and You use the code: KOTF15  She will donate $2 from your purchase to a Wildlife Rescue group! Thanks so much! Go check her out!

Episode 34: Cool Stuff is a Comin' your way

Jetsetting:

Work back and forth to Boston, big jetsetting to PHL and TEB, then off to Knittin' in the Mitten in Michigan hosted by CoggieTM. Will be arriving late, but will get there! Work is still just crazy nuts.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens  - hate

Landed:

Honey's Hat

1/2 landed: One Interrupting cow sock!

2 purple baby hats 

Take Off:

Some stripy socks in Vesper "Smoke On The Water" for Knittin' in the Mitten, need some mindless knitting for all the yakking I'm gonna do. My honey picked the yarn 

Ground Stop:

Been busy on sock and baby hats and finishing the honey hat! 

Holding:


Finished the Merino/Tencel in Peotic from Highland Handmades
Need to ply it, but there is no more fiber left!


Reservations:

Mean Girls Yarn Club Shipment Spoiler: Yarn(Christine), sucker and a tea kit for your purse! 

Delivered 163 baby hats to the distribution center.  Next year I will email you the labels... that was a lot of labels! I am floored by the amount of hats I got. I was hoping for 30 or so.. you all blew me away!


Donations of towels and blankets to D.E.W. Wild Kingdom. We WILL reimburse you for shipping. Can be old, miscolored, stained. But PLEASE make sure they are clean. Dirty laundry is not fun to get as a donation.


Knittin' In The Mitten: Nov. 3-6th. I will arrive on Friday morning super early! Got an awesome ride to the retreat and I totally fan girled her. I had no shame. OH BOY! haha, she is a good sport. So pumped for my FIRST retreat! WOOT! I am gonna meet some awesome people! Be prepared for clips through out the weekend on my youtube channel: for the podcast!

Work has been so Psychotic!   HUGE ups and downs! So crazy! I got a raise, spoke about the busy-ness of the schedule. Then when I asked about the retreat days off, my boss had totally forgot about it, but it's going to work out almost perfect! :) 

Special TFR:

Electric Screwdriver to wind off the bobbin onto my $1.25 cardboard bobbin.

Episode 33: So Many Things To Talk About

Jetsetting:

Work has been crazy: Wednesday last week: RKD BED BST HVN SYR BST BED.  Overnighted in Bedford, MA. Thursday: BED BWI TEB BED SYR TEB HVN.  There I got out and drove 2.5 hrs to BOS to meet up with the honey to catch our flight. Saw old friends in MSP, went to a rockin' wedding, split and stacked some wood for my mom... busy weekend!  Next month will be Crazy for work!!  Knittin' in the Mitten is the first weekend of November and I will be arriving a little late.  Actually very early in the morning, but later then most!

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens 
Test Knit for Heather at Highland Handmades - Hat for the honey!

Landed:

Nothing

Take Off:

Baby Hats

Ground stop:

I'm loose.   I mean I'm a loose knitter so the test knit and the Ambroso mittens had numerous attempts at getting gauge.  But it's finally figured out.

Holding:

nothing, but need to get the merino/tencel done and plied so I can have the bobbins for Knittin' In The Mitten

Reservations:

OMG HATS! I will post a picture at some point of the pile of hats I have already.  Thank you for all your patience as I struggle through my first charity drive. All hats are accounted for, just have grown legs and moved around! Thank you to everyone.  Drawing will be done next time and I'll try to get more organized!

Podcasters who have donated: (If I miss you, please email or pm me... it was not intentional)

Froggymonkey: Knitting In Circles
SillyFru: Sassy Pants Knitter
SockBunny: sockbunny knit and fit
KnittingSamauri plus 1 podcast


Package from Podcaster Challenge package I got:

Mini Spidle from Spinerosity
Fiber Sample from Bartlett Yarns here in Harmony, Maine 
Notepad, pocket mirror and Stitch Markers from KnittingsmyBag
Wooden Knitting needles - size 8
Bottle of Bvlgari lotion
A sample skein of Miss Bab's in A Day At Aunt Viola's donated by Knittingsmybag!
and a goodie bag with coupons from Ethereal Fibers and Wolfe Farms(soap sample also)

From my KAL Prize Package I received: 

4 oz Polworth - Pitch Pine Top int he Forest Path colorway from Highland Handmades
1 pattern from Apple Blossom & More
1 skein of custom dyed yarn from Ethereal Fibers

I love the prizes. thank you so much for donating to the Podcaster Challenge! Great job, Lois!

Special TFR:

My iPhone.  I didn't say that, but it is my special being now... Still trying to figure out all the stuff, but it's going well.

Episode32: HOLY COW!

Jetsetting:

Work has been crazy and getting worse, MN trip from madness next week. Sad news from the airport.

Enroute:

Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2
Ambroso KAL Mittens

Landed:

Cable Comfort Throw
Take Off:

baby hats!!!

Ground stop:

Not really much: been very productive, but not nearly enough. need to finish project bags, tree skirt, blanket and hats ASAP! EEEeeekkkk!!!! Ambroso project has been frogged twice. 

Holding:

*head hanging in shame*  None... again!

Reservations:

We won the KAL prize (HH fiber, how ironic)  We took second with the bears.  We had 50, and Knitabulls edged us with 66... but we ended up with more then 250 bears for the Mother Bear Project! YOU ALL ROCK!  Working on finishing making bags for the prizes... sorry!!  They are coming!

I got a donation from allison1031. Thanks so much for thinking of me... it will be used for shipping of prizes! :)

PURPLE HATS: Holy crap! they are pouring in! summerieday(April), tgknits(trish), crojulee(jullee) 14 hats, hishandmade(Dianna) came in this week!

Ambroso KAL with Erin at Mommy Needs Yarn... I have cast on, and so many people are tearing through it! I can't wait to get mine rocking along! Sarah at Apple Blossom and More has donated 3 patterns from her shop as prizes for those who KAL with me during October! Thanks so much for the donation. she has great patterns and the charts are fantastic! perfectly sized! gotta find some yarn for the shawl!

Sarah at the Rainlover Podcast - Has a sock pattern - Ribbons for Mom - that has all proceeds going to breast cancer research. The donations will go on forever, as long as the pattern is up.  She has close family that has battled Breast Cancer and this is her response... what a way to give back.

Special TFR:

Rosemary Chicken with Orange-Maple Glaze

OH MY GOODNESS!  In love... my honey even ate the leftovers the next night... and he doesn't do leftovers... :) SUCCESS!!

Carmel Apple Cake - mom's recipe... so delicious!

And Mom's Pumpkin Cream Cheese cookies... oh my goodness!

Episode 31: All the pretty hats!

*Music is my Dad's polka band that he played for before I was born*
 

Jetsetting:


Finally back to work, super busy week coming up, knitting to also get done, Traveling in 10 days for cousins wedding. Airplane news :( sad stuff.  May also be teaching a certain person how to waltz for the upcoming wedding! Dancing in the hangar! It was awesome!


Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw
Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2

Landed:

Nada

Take Off:

Ambroso Mittens, and another Scathach's Hat(#3)


Ground Stop:


Been a good week with no disasters!

Holding:


None.

Reservations:

PURPLE HATS!  Everywhere! Its awesome! And a LOT of you have my address to send them to! Try to get them in the mail by the 15th please.  That will give me time to drive them up to the hospital!

GoPreds
Netta
Jakelsey
Knittingsmybag

Ambroso Mitten KAL with Erin at Mommy Needs Yarn

Naming my wheel suggestions: Hotpinksocks and coggietm: Goose(What a more perfect name for your wheel than…..Goose! Your wingman! Lol!!!! (Top Gun)) and Piper(The name is associated with those who are creative, inventive, and ingenious in practical matters, such as handicrafts. It is also a good single prop ;))

Winners are drawn for Mother Bear donations and the Scathach's hat KAL! Please contact me with your info! Please go vote for the Plurk Podcaster Challenge.  And also go add this tag to all your patterns that you knit for the challenge:  PPC2011   I think it makes you eligible for prizes from Knittingsmybag, Lois, who was our fearless leader and supporter!

Donation from Sarah at the Apple Blossom and More has donated 3 patterns from her shop.  Great patterns and charts.  Will mention it again and again over the coming weeks. Thanks Sarah!

Special TFR:

New Section so I can share a favorite item, recipe, pattern or whatever strikes my fancy!  This week:

Dumbo!!  My favorite childhood movie!

Episode 30: I'm a Ramblin' Woman

The Wild Kingdom video had to be posted separately so you can see that in the post below.

Jetsetting:

Numerous trips to Manchester to pick up the Pilatus from scheduled maintenance. Took a load of insulation up to the D.E.W. Wild Kingdom and Sanctuary. www.dewanimalkingdom.com Had a little party at our house for a friend! Love getting together!

Enroute:

Cable Comfort Throw
Interrupting Cow Socks
Scathach's Hat #2

Landed: 

Mother Bear #2

Take Off:

Yet another Scathach's Hat for a friend out of MMMMMMalabrigo!

Ground Stop:

Lots of busy at home, but still got a lot done, so not too bad this week.

Holding:

Absolutely none.

Reservations:

Halcyon Yarns - www.halcyonyarn.com
         Awesome price on Cardboard bobbins and little trinkets!  40 years in business!(sorry for the              pauses... was texting with my honey! haha)

www.clickforbabies.org -

I have 15 hats already and I know there are many more coming!!  Getting more and more prizes! Check out the thread on my group and see the prizes at the top of the page. You guys are screaming through the hats!

Amy - Knitting in Circles
Sillyfru - Sassypants Knitter Podcast

Prize donated by Susan and Savannah from Desert Vista Dye Works.  A skein of mono gradient fingering in the Purple Berry colorway



Dawn at Knit Naturally gave me the sweetest compliments! Thanks *blushes*

Liz at Needle Bound Podcast giving us some bear support!  Thanks Liz!

Knitabulls has us by a couple bears... Bring on those BEARS!

Noteable Needles has gone PPC crazy... guess we know who's getting that prize!

GO VOTE and VOTE MANY TIMES!!  If no one votes, then it takes some fun out of the whole process... go check it out!! click on the link above!