Mojito Monday #2 aka The Lace Poncho is my Moby Dick!

The Lace Poncho is my Moby Dick!

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Happy Mojito Monday!

Welcome to my new Show between the Show "Mojito Monday".  Kick back with your favorite beverage of choice and listen as I recount my knitting and non knitting related adventures and de stress from a loooooong Monday!

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My knitting ADD List:
Bee Keepers Quilt
Jeweled Cowl
My Mt. Horeb Warm Shawl
Lonicera
Gillian Ruffle Scarf
#05 Lace Poncho
Watermelon wedges socks
Spring showers

On the Roku/Netflix/HBO Go:
Mad Men Season 1
Game of Thrones

Cheers:
Happy 3rd Podiversary Laura and Leslie of  The Knitgirllls
Thanks for the awesome project bag Absolute Wonder
I forgot to mention that this is the project that I put in the bag, Hypernova , yes I know more projects to add to the Knitting ADD list.
Thanks a million to A Dandelion Blows for making me another "Major Award". Go visit her shop and tell her Carmen says "Hi!" she's amazing.

The original blue one with a pink and green friend!

I put a Gynx on you!

This week Tapgurl on the go talks with Laura Jinks Jimenez, the creative force behind Gynx Yarns.

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If you want to purchase Gynx Yarns you can find her here gynx.etsy.com
And to learn more about dyeing check out her video podcast here http://gynx.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-dyers-notebook-episode-29.html

Tapping at Fancy Fibers Farm

This week's show comes to you from Fancy Fibers Farm.

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If you're in Austin this weekend, check out the Texas Fiber Arts Festival. 
www.texasfiberartsfestival.com

Welcome Back Carmen

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Welcome back Carmen

***The audio for show number 2 is above.  I had some technical difficulties, so I had to relaunch this episode.  Enjoy!***

Show number two!  Not quite the biweekly show that I planned, but I explain why and where I've been during the show.


Stops on my Wisconsin Yarn Adventure:
The Sow's Ear
Blackberry Ridge Woolen Mill
The Cat and Crow
Oregon Alpaca Fest
Madison Knitters Guild
Lakeside Fibers

I've been reading:
Training Manuals and
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim

My Christmas Knitting
Infinity Cowl
Wandering the Moor
Christmas Dishrags

Knitting for Me!!
Tang
TTL Mystery Sock 2013
Warm Shawl

Finally off the needles and on my feet. Madison

On the Roku: Good TV to knit by.
Sons of Anarchy
Gilmore Girls Season 3
Larkrise to Candleford

Baaa!

Where the Yarn Harlot leads I follow.

When I discovered the joy of knitting socks, I was enamored with the idea of joining a sock club. It sounded so cool. A few friends in my knitting circle were in different ones and I would gaze in wonder at the new yarns, gifts and patterns that they would receive each month. So I decided that I would join one too.

After some searching I soon found out that those sock clubs don't come cheap, and I vowed that one day when funds permitted I would join one. Over the last year and a half of living a semi-civilian life ( I say semi-civilian because I haven't completely given up my artistic ways....sshh don't tell my boss) funds have started to permit. And with the coming of the new year I thought that this would definitly be the year that I would join a sock club. I even had a few picked out. I was just waiting for registrations to open up and with credit card at the ready, I stalked several sites just waiting for my chance to pounce and start receiving my monthly shipment of sock yarn wonderfulness.

But then over the last few weeks a few things happened.

1) I started catching up on The Yarn Harlot's Blog.

2) I finally organized my yarn stash
3) I started to plan for my return to my previous artistic way of life.

For those of you who don't follow the Yarn Harlot, here's the inspiration. Over the last year she has been participating in her own self imposed sock club. She began the year by going thru her sock yarn and favorite patterns, put them all nicely into baggies and then stuck them in a closet. Each month she reached into the closet pulled out a bag at random and knit that sock.

I had decided after going to the DFW Fiberfest that I really needed to start knitting more from my stash and to also start knitting patterns from my ever growing library of knitting books.

Add one and two to the fact that even though I got a nice promotion, every day I yearn more and more for a life that doesn't include a timeclock, meetings and me having to wear "business casual" everyday and BAM!, the Tapgurl Sock Club was born.

So this week I gathered up all of my sock yarn. Then looked through all of my favorite patterns found some favorites and matched them up with my sock yarn stash.

Then I put my yarn and patterns into 11 different baggies, 1 pair will be striped knee socks so I'm giving myself 2 months for that pair. Hunted around in my closet for my travel hamper, threw them all in, shook it all about and came up with January's sock.

The yarn is Colinette Jitterbug the colorway is Toucan that I purchased in Austin last year when the boy and I went on vacay. I have been saving this yarn for the perfect pattern, and I realized that I wasn't going to find it. So, it's going to be plain stockinette. When in doubt, stockinette it out!

No shipping and handling, no waiting til next month. I know that I will like the yarn and best of all $200-$300 dollars saved!

Viva la Harlot!