A Favorite Place

First, an announcement: I was featured on Yarn On The House this week! There is an interview and a giveaway, so click on over to watch my awkward videos and enter for a chance to win one of two prizes!

This year continues to move at warp speeds, so I always appreciate being able to sneak in some purely indulgent moments. I had visitors from out of town, so I took them to one of my favorite places: the lovely town of Rockport.

Have you been to Rockport? What are some of your favorite places?

A different Friday Finds

For today's Friday Finds, I am sharing these old photos of my grandmother that my mom found. Today would have been my grandmother's birthday.

She passed away over 20 years ago, and I still miss her dearly. Sylvia was an amazingly gentle and creative soul. To me, she was one of the most wonderful people in the world.

Happy birthday, grandma.

Showing You The Stars

A few weeks ago, I met C.C. in a sock knitting forum. C.C. is half of the Geeky Girls Knit podcast crew, and a fellow knitting and Doctor Who enthusiast. Then I heard about a Doctor Who inspired sock pattern she had just released, and magic happened!

We've partnered up to bring you the Doctor Who Starry Socks Kit! The kit includes one skein of my Starry Starry Night yarn, and a PDF copy of her sock pattern, Rescue Me, Chin Boy, and Show me the Stars. The yarn is named for the episode "Vincent and the Doctor" in which the 11th Doctor meets Vincent Van Gogh. C.C.'s sock pattern is named for the episode "Asylum of the Daleks" with the 11th Doctor, where Clara calls upon the Doctor to save her. The pattern has a series of little stars along the front of the sock and the leg.

The kit will go live online on Monday, but I have a special deal to share with you - through tomorrow, Friday, at midnight EST, you can contact me to get the kit at a pre-release special price of $25 plus shipping. As of next week, the kit will be priced at $27. Sold separately, the yarn is $26 and the pattern is $3.50.

I hope you love this kit as much as we do! Leave a comment below or email me to snag a pre-release kit!

Sweater Situation

Well, I guess it's time to talk about the sweater situation. I've had this Breezy Sweater by Hannah Fetig on my needles for a few weeks and was making good time - until I had yardage problems again. This is my second sweater with Araucania Huasco sock yarn (the first was my Folded Sweater), and I've run out of yarn with both when I should have had plenty. My gauge was right both times, and the patterns are by different designers, so I don't think it's a pattern issue.

Araucania doesn't have dye lots anyway, so I ordered an extra skein. It doesn't match. In the photo above, the sleeve cuffs are done in the extra skein, and it's very different from the ribbing at the bottom of the sweater. Much more neon, and it doesn't have the soft peachy tones. So I emailed Webs and after a lot of back and forth, we figure out that Araucania has changed this colorway and I am pretty much never getting a match (grrrrrr). Conclusion: I picked a contrast color and am waiting for the yarn to arrive. I am majorly displeased. I have one more sweater's worth of Araucania in my stash, and then I don't think I will be purchasing from them anymore.

While I am waiting, I finally started that Blank Canvas Sweater I mentioned back in March. It's the perfect project to test out my new DK weight yarn, and I'm really enjoying these colors together.

What are you working on? Have you worked with Araucania, and have you had any yardage issues?