...KAL...

Just a heads up on a KAL with Octavia. Lorajean from The Knitted Wit is doing a knit-a-long with her beautiful Sakura starting May 1st. To celebrate the KAL get 20% off of the Octavia pattern through May 7th!

~enjoy!

...the water's fine...

I have something new on the design table. It's coming together nicely and I'm excited about releasing it. What I need, to make this happen, is some help. I'm looking to add to my list of test knitters. I have a really great group that has been testing my patterns as they come along. These knitters are wonderful and I owe them a huge thanks, so here goes....

Thank you Marcy, for your wisdom and humor (you know what I mean). Thank you Linda, for jumping in and helping even though you've only met me once! Thank you Mary Ann, for testing, listening and guiding, even from long distance! Thank you Leianne, for your quiet confidence in me, it means the world. And last, but never least, thank you Susan, for your testing, frogging, testing some more, cheering, muttering, note taking, phone calls, car rides and gabfests (complete with wine). I could not do any of this with out each and every one of you.

That said, I would like to add to this fantastic pool of test knitters. If you are interested in jumping into to the murky waters of my test knitter pool leave a comment in the comment section or email me at thestitchesofmylifedesigns@gmail.com. Come on in, the water's fine.....

...and the winner is...

In my post on Tuesday, I posed the question as to what I had to do that day along with this photo~

I got some pretty funny and clever answers! The actual correct question was:

"What do you use to repair a broken piece on your jumbo flyer and a broken elastic band on your scotch tension?" Both of these things happened when I dropped the flyer on the floor and broke off a piece, glued it back together with the gorilla glue only to discover that the elastic band was broken too. Of course I surely had a rubber band hanging around the house that I could use to fix it, right? Guess again....

A trip to Staples and $4.99 later I was the proud owner of not one or one hundred rubber bands but a bag of a 1000. They don't sell them in smaller amounts. Now I can rest easy knowing that when this rubber band breaks I have 999 more to take it's place. By the way, every spinner should have a tube of this in their spinning bag.....

...notice it's the"IMPACT TOUGH" formula.

Anyhow, after reading and re-reading the questions posted I have decided that the winner is.....drum roll please........ (remember, I didn't say the correct question, I said the best)....

Katharine and the securing of a honey badger, etc. Congrats Katharine! Email me at thestitchesofmylifedesigns@gmail.com and I'll send you the pattern of your choice!

Thanks for playing everyone!

knit on~

...i'll take "Spinning" for $500, Alex......

And the answer is:

...Gorilla Glue and rubber bands...

In the spirit of Sock Camp how about a contest? Any idea what I had to do today? Leave a comment (in the form of a Jeopardy question) by Thursday and the best one will win a copy of one of my patterns (your choice!).

Good Luck!

...honey badger....

So apparently honey badger does care.....

This was a gift from Knitspot when we were at camp. Thank you Ann!

knit on honey badgers~

p.s. The bobbin behind the honey badger is a super secret gift I'm working on. More on that later......

...sock camp...

Just recovered unpacked from Sock Camp. As usual it was best of times, it was the craziest of times. The theme this year was Alice in Wonderland and boy what a rabbit hole we all fell into!

The campers were amazing as always. Fantastic talents at the Talent Show (dancers, puppet masters, singers, quilters, magicians, poetry reciters, story tellers..... you get the idea). I love the Talent Show and I am continually amazed and impressed by the multitude of things these people can do!

And then there was the homework. With each and every presentation we were blown away. The imagination is unbelievable.

The teachers/classes were wonderful. JC and Anne were rock stars, as usual. I heard so many great things about what the campers learned from them. I would love to take a class from each of them sometime. Hmm.....road trip.......

I got to be a class room aide to Steph. That was pretty cool! In her class the campers learned the fine art of darning. It was awesome!

I was able to slip away from Steph's class one morning and had the opportunity to dye with Tina. It was pretty great. Here is what I came away with.

I've already got several new designs in my head that will feature these lovelies!

Getting to spend time with Anna Zilboorg was especially nice. She is one smart cookie!

The best part of Sock Camp for me is getting meet new campers and being able to welcome back repeat offenders returning campers. Some of my closest friends have come from Sock Camp. Some of these people I only get to see once a year but I will tell you when we get together it's like we just saw each other yesterday. I love that!

Marcy, Carrie and I.

I got to spend a great deal of time with Stephen, a.k.a. hizKNITS. We shared the job as camp counselors. That definitely was a high point for me. Stephen is a pretty cool dude and loves to laugh as much as I do. I think we might be a deadly combination. He's also the one that turned me onto Honey Badger. You can thank him for that........

As always, I am thankful for the opportunity to be at Sock Camp. Thank you, Tina. I loved it.