A Princess of Yarnia

My Halloween costume this year really reflects my knitty alterego....a sparkly tiara for a Princess of Yarnia.  You know what I mean...one of the many who love to knit and love yarn, all yarn! Here's a sampling...

Red Heart yarn for Special Olympics Scarves 2012 project.  Great project that I have done with my daughter the past two years...can't wait to start this year in blue & red!

Pretty Lorna's Laces yarn....perfect for socks and shawls.

Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock....great colorways for awesome socks!

Sanguine Gryphon...more great colorways for socks and shawls.  And the reason for the missing tiara in the last two pictures?? I'm wearing it, of course!  Princess Yarnia is off to fill the trick or treaters' bags full of candy!

Happy Halloween!



Special Olympic Scarves - Revisited

This year's colors for the Special Olympic Scarves

Last year, my then 12 year old daughter and I knit scarves for the Idaho Special Olympics.  Our challenge was to see if she could knit one scarf faster than I could knit two...I'm proud to say she did! This year we are going to try again.  I will probably only knit one this year as I seem to have a major startitis thing going on.  My daughter loves the offical colors of the yarn...Red Heart Blue and Turqua.

 We found a list of states' deadlines for receiving these scarves at this website.  I'll let my daugher decide where to send the scarf.  I'm glad she is doing this again.  She didn't knit anything else last year after she was done with that 6 foot loooonnnng oh mom its sooooo loooooonng scarf.  But she's learning how to knit and she's doing something for someone else.  Last night, she cast on the scarf completely without any help, found her stitch counter and started knitting!  Maybe one day she'll decide to knit something for herself but in the meantime I'm happy to pass along this skill that I learned from my grandmother!