{Fat Cat Crochet}

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted.  Too hot.  Too humid.   The Lake is like bathwater. So not refreshing.  Blech.  
I’ve been trying to knit and just not feeling.  All I really want to do is lay around an watch TV with the A/C on.  But the dog gets me up off my ever growng backside every so [...]

Well the plan was to Spin every day the Tour rides; Saturday July 3rd through Sunday July 25th. Days of rest: Monday July 12th, Wednesday July 21st. (Just like the actual tour).  And I did!  WINNER!!  Even got me a Yellow Leader Shirt!

I kinda like this spinning thing but I’m still going to wait until S.A.F.F. in [...]

I’ve been a baaad blogger but a very devoted spinner!  I’ve spun every day they’ve ridden.
I’ve spun up some mystery fiber

And some Gale’s Art
the lovely Briar Rose  

and the first of the 3 different amazing Alpaca from Wonder Why Alpaca Farm.

The difference between wool & alpaca for this first time [...]

Yes, yes I’m still on the Wonder Alpaca thing.  Ain’t it great!  HA!  Not only did I get to participate in the shearing of the Wonder Herd, I was rewarded for it!!!  Look at all this Cool Stuff!
Andrea at Wonder Why Alpaca Farm was very generous.  She and Holly put together a basket of things for [...]

Where to begin?
 
 
 
 
 
I found  Holly’s blog  Knit with Snot for You (it’s like knit with Love but with 3 small boys in the house, well you get the idea) while searching Google trying to find yarn in Clemson University colors.  She’s adventurous, fun, a total riot, alpaca wrangler, poop scoopin, give you the shirt off her back & [...]

I purposely went up to SW Michigan to help shear 18 alpaca.  Yes, yes I know.  I don’t know anything about alpaca or shearing but it was the perfect excuse to meet all my Ravelry friends, the Zombie Prom Date Knitters!  I couldn’t pass it up.
Andrea is not only a member of the Zombie Prom [...]

Wow, what a week!  What an awesome, busy, wonderful week with the Zombie Prom Date Knitters!  I’m home  now and  I have some time to write a post and sort through all the photos I took.  So lets start with the basics.  Today we will cover the differences in the two types of Alpaca.
(All info [...]

 
With the extinquishing of the Olympic Torch this coming Sunday so too do the Ravelympics come to a close.   Whew! Boy Howdy!   That was a lot of knittin’ I’ll tell you!
During the Olympic Opening Ceremonies I SKYPEed in to Kalamazoo, Michigan where the rest of  Team Zombie Slayers were assembled at our KWAKtians lovely home [...]

The Winter Olympics start on Friday.  So do the Knitting Olympics!  Or as some us like to call them …
The Ravelympics!  
And just like the Winter Olympics have Events; Cross-Country, Curling, Skiing and  Hockey.
Ravelry has events too…Cable Cross-country  (All things cables), Charity Curling  (All things made for Charity),  Sock Hockey  (All things socks and [...]