My new Knitting Vlog Post (with no actual knitting content)

Hi! Welcome to my first ever TreasureGoddess Vlog Post! YAY! YARN! Because this is a high quality, polished venture (ahem) I had to edit out the actual KNITTING content. cripes. BUT the video DOES show two cool projects for working with Supercoils art yarn! See what you think. I promise actual KNITTING and CROCHETING projects next time. :) Links: Coils Cowl on Ravelry
Coils Cowl on Etsy
TreasureGoddess Etsy Shop, home of Supercoils yarn
Insubordiknit, home of amazing art yarn & textured yarn spinning classes & awesome blog too

Thanks for stopping by!

Sock Yarn Leftovers

These are my four rectangles of sock yarn bits from the FREE pattern over HERE. It's the Itty Bitty Sockyarn Bits Blanket pattern, which is basically starting with a small rectangle and creating a log cabin garter stitch blanket and growing out from there.
An ORGANIZED woman would probably have determined the size she wanted, then knit each to those specifics and voila, a perfectly sized blanket would be created. I have never been known for either being organized OR doing things the easy way the first (or second, third...) time(s). SO I just pulled out leftover yarn bits, knit until I thought it looked similar to the others and cast off willy nilly. This resulted in me having 3 different sized parts of the blanket and one in-progress that's still salvagable.



As you can see, they're close, just not quite there. I decided on the easy way out, frogging off a bit of the extra sides rather than keep knitting to try to match them all up. Last night at an outdoor middle school concert, I pulled out my notes and my blanket parts. I started ripping away while sitting in a lawn chair, listening to the almost jazz being played by the 7th grade jazz band. Suddenly, a VERY LOUD WHISPER YELL came across to me, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING???!!!???" This poor woman (who was NOT a knitter by the way) was having a conniption that I was ripping part of the project in my lap. I quietly comforted her and told her that ripping was ok. It was part of knitting. Seriously. It also wouldn't explode.



Now I've just got to knit 3 inches along one long side of one piece and I'll have 3 mostly the same size rectangles. I'll use these actual measurements to finish up my 4th piece and then it'll be seam time. :)

He's sort-of a Farm Baby...

Meet Rio (his brother is Bravo--from the John Wayne movie Rio Bravo). Rio is just over 6 weeks, a Miniature Ausralian Shepherd, and FULL of cuteness. Back at Christmas we lost our little puppy Frank. We didn't actually LOSE Frank, he died. Poor thing. He got sick from an unclean injection at the vet's (NOT using that vet this time around, thank you very much) and we had to put him down just after Christmas. Boy, that was a cheerful introduction to our new puppy, wasn't it?

ANYWAY, back to the CUTENESS! Just like a human baby, he eats a little, sleeps a lot and poops. He also is up in the night just like a new baby, but that's getting much better.



He's my Farm Baby because he came from a farm outside of Leavenworth, KS. I imagine in about 6 years when my kids all graduate from high school, we'll be moving to our own farm and then Rio will be a farm dog once again.

Who wouldn't buy wool when it's 90 degrees outside?

Holy crapamoly, I'm doing an outdoor fiber event tomorrow (Saturday, 5/5 Cinco de Mayo) and it's forecasted to be HOT AS HELL and MUGGY. How's that for a great invite? Come, Sweat and BUY SOME WOOL! That's probably not how all those online business/life coaches would promote this event, but you know what? I'd TOTALLY go buy wool in the heat of summer. :)

Shawnee Indian Mission Fiber Festival
3403 W 53rd St, Fairway, KS 66205
10am-4pm
WOOLY yarn, spinning fiber, demonstrations, make & takes, cold drinks & yummy food vendors, what more could you want?


YAY! YARN!
Come out and say howdy! I've got SHADE and YARN, what could be better?

Treasures I brought home from the vendor market!

4 oz of superwash merino/tencel from Nerd Girl Yarns in colorway "Burn it Down" LOVE it. Also got 2 oz of yak blend in a yummy earthy reds n greys.


Gryffin Sock from Hermione Jean Creations Oh holy hell I fell HARD for these yarns. Can you see the SPARKLE? The amazing colors? The SQUOOSH factor is pretty incredible as well. Colorways are Sugared Butterfly Wings and The 3 Broomsticks. *sigh* My Harry Potter Soul is soothed with these very sparkly very addicting skeins. She's rockstar awesome and I'm so glad she came to KITH!


550 yards of soft 50/50 merino/silk turquoise/brown/deep nayv/forest green wooly heaven from Woolie Bullie



It's SO FLUFFY!! wool & silk fluffiness from Two Windows Dye Co.. Deb is one of the most talented women I've ever met. I'm continually inspired by her and spend entirely too much time hanging out at her booth at vendor markets giggling and petting her pretty pretty fiber & yarn.

Tired of links & photos yet? :) My thanks go out to Franklin Habit of the blog the Panopticon, who was our superstar teacher at Knitting in the Heartland! He also posted a link to the goodies he brought home from our vendor market and my green baby alpaca/silk/cashmere lace yarn was in his photo of his post on playing with strings (along with some amazing other wooly wonders)!

Not photographed yet and quite possibly buried in one of the many bags of yarn that came home from my booth are some fire red hand dyed kid mohair locks from Dalcrista Farm and some undyed shetland wool roving from jwrayco. There may be more. I think I blacked out in wooly wonder at one point. I do looooove vendor markets. I am amazed at those vendors that are able to just sit & sell and not bring home MORE WOOL from the others!