DragonflySoars 20110424, Help DramaticKnits!

Through the Looking Glass Shawl (Ravelry pattern page)

Contest Reminder and Rules (leave messages on last podcast post)

• Win a Unique Sheep set of Coffee House Reef yarn (Rav yarn page)
  
• Open to anyone, even international and sisters
• Leave comment by April 30th
  

DramaticKnits finished the Japanese Garden Shawl and is auctioning it off on eBay to raise money for Red Cross to support the relief efforts in Japan.

Box O' Yarn (and a contest!)

Projects
Preemie hat, #5 & #6 (link to Ravelry post with my pics and info about the Sweet Caroline Project)
Pergola scarf (my Rav project page)
Habitat sock, pattern by Janel Laidman


New Stuff
New Illuminations Sock Club shipment, pattern not released yet as not all have received shipments.


Vesper, Neapolitan, Knitterly Things
Fireweed Dyeworks, Magenta Orange, Lavendar, Yellow self striping
Fibernymph Dye Works, Mint Chocolate Chip, Amble Base, self-striping

Box O' Yarn!!
Blue Tulips project bag
Fearless Fibers, Rubicund
Pagewood Farm, sky blue pink
Fireweed Dyeworks, Winter color wheel
Hedgehog Fibres, Koi & Marble

Exonumist Shawl by Wendy Johnson my Ravelry project page

Random Aside: Curtains from Curtainworks

★ ★ CONTEST!! ★ ★

Leave a comment here on the blog or a review on iTunes by April 30th to win Unique Sheep Coffee House Reef club colorway. Matches my Isar Scarf. I will also gift the winner a Ravelry download pattern to go with the yarn, fingering weight ~100g total, ~550 yards. Good Luck!


-Dfly

Why Do I Knit?

Knitting
Dawnsinger/Habitat Socks has not moved (pattern by Janel Laidman)

Currently focused on Preemie Hats for Sweet Caroline project, working on number 5

• Keegan Lane Yarns Big Footies, Club for All Seasons, Spring, Rainbow Impressions (stitch pattern was from Wendy Knits, Double Eyelet Rib socks)
  
• Keegan Lane Yarns, same club, Winter - Bluebirds of the Tundra
• Opal
• Vesper
  
• Girl Gone Loopy (colorway is Kiss the Sky)
  

New Yarn
Unique Sheep True Colors club, yarn is the Pashmi base, pattern is Tulip Festival shawlette, designed by Susan Pandorf

Books
"Charts Made Simple" by JC Briar
Klutz Knitting book (newer version than mine)

Miscenalleous
Sinful Colors (awful nail polish in my experience, website down for maintenance at this posting)
Yarn Harlot
Herbert Niebling designer (Ravelry link)

Sweet Caroline

Japanese Garden Shawl by Wendy Johnson, pattern purchases through end of April go to Red Cross
DramaticKnits will be auctioning his Japanese Garden Shawl, after completion, and donating the proceeds to the Red Cross


Highland Handmades, lace in Moss colorway, 1100 yds
Vesper striping, Build Me Up Buttercup

Knitting's My Bag, medium bag
Piddleloop Large Box bag

Working on Dawnsinger/Habitat Socks by Janel Laidman

Special Request, please if you can, knit Preemie Hats for Sweet Caroline project. This is a Ravelry link, a basic knit pattern is in the first post. If you are not part of Ravelry and want information, please contact me.

Thank you!

-DFly