Margarita and her baby, Miss Magic

On Sunday, Sept. 13th I met up with a bunch of Ravellers at Fibrefest in Almonte. Idea was to tour the two venues together and then grab lunch. The first building we visited (Agricultural building) was the better of the two locations. Plenty of fibre vendors, including several alpaca farms selling beautiful yarns.

Here is my bounty from Fibrefest:

The lovely orange one (colourway = Fire) in the front is Alpaca sock yarn! The two to the right of it  are hand-dyes from OVFA (Ottawa Valley Fibre Arts) in the colourways: sea turtle and denim jeans. Also in the upper left hand corner is another hand-dyed by Pumpkinseed designs, the natural coloured one is alpaca in a heavier weight (for a hat??) and some Regia sock, some Fleece Artist worsted (for a scarf??) and a ball of Crazy Zauberball for socks.

Overall it was a fun day! It was nice to meet up and put a face to some of the gals from Ravelry. The vendors were terrific, but the hit of the day had to be Margarita and her baby, Miss Magic. I sign off with some pics of them:

Ladybug!  Ladybug!
Fly away home.
Your house is on fire. And your children all gone.

All except one,And that’s little Ann,
For she crept under
The frying pan

In keeping with the Seinfeld back in time episode, and, as I promised in yesterday’s post,  I continue my trip going back in time. Earlier this week (Monday, Sept. 21) I received Woolgirl’s sock club  August  kit (it was late and we only got it in September). So, this is a SPOILER kids,  look away now if you want to keep it a surprise:

Okay….it was the spoiler button, so one more chance to look away before I show the contents of the kit……….

August/September’s theme is ladybugs, or “love bugs” as Jen of Woolgirl calls the sock pattern. Cool, huh? That plastic ball thingy is a 7″ fibersphere….To keep yarn in and out of the dust. I’m using it right now with an earflap hat project.

Here is what was inside the hamster ball fibersphere:Yowza! A whole bunch of ladybug swag!

1 skein of Miss Babs Yummy fingering weight in the Ladybug colourway.

Fly Away Home pattern designed by Lisa Dykstra

1 mini-skein of ladybug black in Miss Babs yummy fingering (for heels/toes)

7″ Fibersphere

Mini ladybug sphere

ladybug stitch marker

ladybug pen/tape measure

ladybug emery board

ladybug notepad

ladybug eraser

2 Love bugs magnets

ladybug stickers

ladybug tattoo

Miss Babs Ymmy in "Ladybug"

The pic doesn’t do the colour justice..I can’t wait to knit up these socks!

So, Wednesday I got back to blogging - Tuesday I finished the Primaveras and went to a new knitting guild meeting, and Monday, I received the ladybug kit…Next post I’ll continue my trek back into time….

As the ladybugs fly away home, I, too am signing off now with a few pics of some of the last of our summer flowers….

Moonflower/Datura

poppies

assorted field flowers

I have been incredibly lame. No, I’m not talking about the injured knee that I’ve been sqawking about all summer - I’m talking about how delinquent I’ve been with keeping  up this blog and my quilting blog.

It’s been ages….But, hey, I’ve got places to go, things to do, people to see…..yadda yadda yadda.

So, instead of one big gigantico blog entry, I’ll ease into things…And, like a Seinfeld episode, I’ll slowly work my way backwards.

So…today…well, today I am at work, crunching numbers and getting very frustrated with numbers that are not adding up. At lunchtime I had  yummy Vietnamese.

Last night I finished these socks:

Primavera knit in Indigo Moon Yarns "indigo"

They are a knitalong (KAL) that the Ravelry group “socks squared” sponsored for the month of September. The pattern is Primavera, by Natalja, and I used 100% merino wool Indigo Moon Yarns colourway indigo. I can’t wait to wear these!

Last night I went to the very first ever meeting for a new knitting guild that’s starting up in Lanark. About 20 or so of us met at the Almonte Public Library and signed up for membership. I think that it is going to be a fun guild, and it will be very interesting to see it evolve.