And the Winner Is...

The winner of our first yarn giveaway is TopHat, who said, "I love the Debbie Bliss Cashmerino in purple. I would make mittens for my daughter!"

I will be contacting you for an address to get your Noro Silk Garden yarn sent out to you as soon as possible. Congratulations to TopHat.

Be sure to check back for future giveaways!

Spring Knitting and Winter Snow

Despite my limited free time lately, I now have 5 inches done on my Lovegood sweater. Although I like the look of the finer gauge, I don't think I will be knitting a sweater on a size 1 or 2 anytime soon...3 and 4 is small enough for me right now! Some of the other projects listed on Ravelry had lace panels on the back, too. I think it looked beautiful and intended to do it. The real reason mine doesn't have lace on the back? I forgot and was too lazy to take it out and start over. Thankfully, the original sweater by CanarySanctuary looks great without the extra lace on the back.

While uploading the picture of my sweater, I found my missing pictures of a trip to the mountains at the end of February. The snow falling and covering everything was too beautiful not to photograph!

New Moon Rising

In honor of the DVD release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which I watched last night, I have decided to post the pictures of my Twilight-inspired Phenomenon glove/mittens (aka glittens). This was one of my projects in January (National Knit Mittens Month, as you all know), though I confess I did take about two weeks off and, as a result, ended on *gasp* February 2nd.


I love them! I wore them more than I expected to, mostly because I turned them into flip top mittens. For some reason, I hate the idea of having my fingers trapped in a mitten even though I know I can just take off the mitten if I really needed my fingers. Anyway, the flip top turned out really well. If I had it to do over again, I would cast on a few extra stitches for the flip top on the thumb to give a little extra room.

Now I just need to add my modifications and pictures to Ravelry!

Welcome to Needles and Ewe!

OK, so I am notoriously bad at consistently writing journals, e-mails, and letters. My Ravelry page spent a long time with no project pictures...crying the whole time, I'm sure. My great idea was to add the care instructions for each yarn to my project page so I would not forget, but yeah, that hasn't happened yet. (Note to self: I think that will be on my to-do list this weekend, along with my brown shrug.) ...and that is why it takes me so long: I can't seem to avoid tangents! But back to the point, I have decided to use Julie/Julia as my inspiration and commit to a blog for one year. Since I do know myself, I am going to go for one post a week, cheer for myself, and count any extra posts as, well, extra.

I love crafts of all sorts. They usually fall into the category of crafts I've done, crafts I'm going to try soon, and crafts I will keep in reserve to try in a few years or so. The current obsession is knitting, which I have been doing for about a year and a half, though crochet, sewing, quilting, rubber stamps, ceramics and so many others would make the crafts list. One thing on the list of future things to learn would be stained glass...ahh, so many crafts and not enough time!

Speaking of time...that's it for my first post. I have considered going back and changing it from three posts to one per week (though I didn't) and I considered staying up past midnight tonight to add a second one tonight (but I decided that would be cheating), so for now I bid you adieu!