"Someone at this number requested . . . "

Have you received a phone call that starts out, "Someone at this number requested (fill in the blank)"?
Now, of course, it is not a live person, but a recording. This morning I got one informing me that someone at my number requested information about a brace for back pain. Not true. Did not happen. It got me thinking about my visit to see my doctor in December, having an MRI before Christmas, and subsequent visits to a local chiropractor. These visits should be covered by HPPA laws, right? All of these visits were covered by insurance, so I think my insurance company is selling my data! I am not pleased, but also not surprised. Or, maybe it was data mining from my own computer searches when I was googling sciatica.
My train of thought is never far from yarn, so I thought about making my own recording that would start "Someone at this number requested information about yarn." It could be a breakthrough for Weedy Creek Yarn!

We'll knit in the sunshine, we'll laugh every day . .

I am borrowing from the Gale Garnett song with a title close to that (We'll Sing in the Sunshine), but that is what I have been doing here this last week in Baja. Our pergola is a great place to sit and knit!
I am working on (dare I say "finishing ") this KAL from last year, Fourteen carat.  I love working with fingering weight yarn but it takes an awfully long time to finish a project. The pattern is by Michele Hunter, and first appeared on her website, knitpurlhunter.com.
Here is a link to the pattern on the Ravelry.com. I am using sock weight yarn, as I mentioned. It is CoBaSi, a cotton, bamboo, silk and nylon blend that comes in loads of colors. It is available at Weedy Creek Yarn, of course 🤗

Fiber Fair!

I have been to the fiber fair in Scottsbluff and Mitchell, sponsored by Brown Sheep Yarn. It is a lot of fun, but a long drive for those of us living in Eastern Nebraska. So, I was happy to hear about a fiber fair that will be quite a bit closer to home, the Mid-Plains Fiber Fair in York, Nebraska, April 22-23, 2017.
There are demonstrations, vendors, classes, competitions, door prizes (Weedy Creek Yarn is giving away a set of addi Rocket knitting needles), animals and I think it will be lots of fun!
The registration deadline for classes is April 15, just around the corner. Go check out the classes and the vendors, and plan on getting yourself to York, Nebraska April 22-23!

Scoreboard KAL

The Nebraska Cornhuskers last game of the season was a bowl game played on December 30, 2016, and here it is March of 2017. I do not have a good excuse for waiting so long to finish this Knit-along. I will blame it on the lackluster performance of the team and the generally apathy I felt toward football by the end of the season. I know, I am not a very good fan. Since posting about the ten-stitch blanket and my WIPs last week, I decided it is time to make those works in progress into finished objects. The scoreboard KAL had the least amount of work to finish, so I did it!
This KAL is sponsored by Skacel Knitting, one of the vendors we use at Weedy Creek Yarn. The idea is to keep track of the football season of your favorite team. When you are finished you have a cowl! I chose the shorter version in which I knit two rows for every score, red for the Cornhuskers and white for the opposing team. The black yarn separates the games. You can see way too much white on this cowl! The longer version would have you knit a row for each point scored and would be a more accurate representation of the season.
It is always a bonus if you learn something from a project. This time I learned how to Kitchener in the round to join the ends. Not as hard as it sounds!

Ten-stitch Blanket

I have several unfinished knitting projects, a poncho, a shawl, a scarf, and a sweater are here with me in LaRibera, B.C.S., México. All four of those WIPs (works in progress) are well past the half way mark, and typically, I would be all in to finish. But, here I am, plugging along on my ten-stitch blanket. Go ahead, look it up on Ravelry. It is a free pattern.

Looks easy, doesn't it? Well, it is easy, requiring very little thought on my part, as well as using up my embarrassingly large stash of left-over sock weight yarn. I did not bring the entire amount of sock weight yarn with me, though, and I guess I will probably run out sometime next week. Sigh. 

Prayer Shawl

Have you ever made and given away a prayer shawl? Here are some lovely words you could enclose with your gift. I do not know the author, so if you do, please let me know to whom credit should be given.

In my hand
The knitting needles
Called the energy
Down from the heavens
Wound it 'round the yarn
In intricate pattern
Lacing it through the weave
Turning it into healing.
Straw into gold
Wool into light
Emanating
From every loop
Filled with my prayers
Whispered from my heart

Please receive this shawl.
Curl it around you
Close it over you
Like child's play
And enter into
The warm, dark, quiet
Stillness.
There you can rest
Wait for healing
Make friends with time.

Let your body
Breathe in
The secrets of the shawl.
Feel the light
Reach into your bones
Mending knitting,
Weaving them together
In a new way.
Birthing a new body
Creating a new future.

Prayer Shawl

Have you ever made and given away a prayer shawl? Here are some lovely words you could enclose with your gift. I do not know the author, so if you do, please let me know to whom credit should be given.

In my hand
The knitting needles
Called the energy
Down from the heavens
Wound it 'round the yarn
In intricate pattern
Lacing it through the weave
Turning it into healing.
Straw into gold
Wool into light
Emanating
From every loop
Filled with my prayers
Whispered from my heart

Please receive this shawl.
Curl it around you
Close it over you
Like child's play
And enter into
The warm, dark, quiet
Stillness.
There you can rest
Wait for healing
Make friends with time.

Let your body
Breathe in
The secrets of the shawl.
Feel the light
Reach into your bones
Mending knitting,
Weaving them together
In a new way.
Birthing a new body
Creating a new future.