Project Spectrum Eve! Can you feel it!? I can’t wait to see the explosion of pink and red over the month of March! Thank you for your enthusiasm about the Project - I simply can’t wait to see what you create! There are nearly 400 participants, and remember, you can join at any time (through the end of August!) so, if pink and red don’t float your boat, check us out next month!
…and I warmed up this weekend with my Strawberry Swirly sock…
I am about two inches away from a completed sock - just about to start the toe decreases. This Hill Country Yarns Sweet Feet is great to work with - a simple and soft merino that stripes so well! I chose a generic 3 x 2 rib pattern to show off the yarn’s colors, and experimented with a new heel: the German heel detailed in this Basic pattern.
Mama E, my generous neighbor to the north (about 20 miles north!) sent me a lovely skein of her own hand-dyed sock yarn. Notice to amazing sunshiney color - I don’t think I can wait until April (the yellow/orange month) to cast on. Thanks so much E! This brilliant yarn put a huge smile on my face! (Here’s a closeup!)
Project Spectrum is about many things for me… and sock knitting will be one of my major contributions for each month’s colors. I am planning many other crafts as well, but I am really enjoying looking through the free sock pattern repository that Amy Boogie set up searching for that perfect pattern for the sock yarns I have in my stash. A great resource and completely free!
My weekend was so great - jam-packed with fun! Saturday morning, Heather dropped off the beautiful Pixie girl at my house for a few hours. We played Play-do, went to the park with my dogs, played on the swings, and had lunch all before her mom came to pick her up! She is so much fun - just like her mommy!
Then Heather and I packed it up and headed down to Virginia to meet up with several DC Metro knitbloggers - Ann Fidget and Heather coordinated a meetup and a Stash swap! Ann held the meetup at her lovely home in Alexandria, and there was a great turn out. We had such a great time catching up with each other, seeing each others’ knits, and swapping the different yarns.
(l-r) Isel, Jenna, me, Shelley, Sarah, Rossana, Erin, Liz, and Ann.
Unfortunately, this is not everyone who was at the party, but too good of a group pic not to post! Photo compliments of Heather.
There was a lot of yarn to swap - a whole table full! Lara, Rossana and I check it out (well, that is the back of my head, and the black/red is Rossana…)
And there was even more on Ann’s kitchen island! (Thanks to Ann for the kitchen pics - guess who did not have her camera?) I bet we had about 50 miles of yarn right there! After swapping, we sat around in the living room and stitched and bitched. It was so much fun. I hope there is a next time!
…and those who eluded the camera - unphotographed but not forgotten: Paula, Holly, Chelsea, Amy, and Kel! Great to see some of you again, and to meet everyone else for the very first time 
Thank you Ann for hosting us in your great place!
Then on Sunday my little Hawaiian sister came to town!! Mimi is here in Maryland, and we spent some time together over the weekend! It is great to have my sister here on the mainland
… and tomorrow if the big day!! Get your scissors, needles, thread, hooks, glue guns, beads, fabrics, paints, and mixing bowls (and don’t forget your cameras!) ready, my friends!!!
