Laura

Ok, so I have yet another obsession that has now taken over to go along with the knitting and photos of Ivie!  Stitch Markers!!!  I bought a beautiful set of hand-made stitch markers from SWAK about a month ago.  Kary (aka knitwitchick on Ravelry) made them and they are absolutely adorable!  I loved them so much and I used to dabble in jewelry making so I thought I'd get out some of my old beads and such and try my hand at it.  At the same time, Courtney was looking for more stitch markers and came upon the same idea, so we've been enabling each other for the last few days.  Here are a few of the markers that I've done so far.

I've also made a set for Stacy and Wendy along with some for Laura (aka sprout and Biomaj5), Mary (yobeach) and Courtney (Yarntramp).  I'm hoping to get the markers to my local girls very soon.  Of course Laura already has hers since she'll actually brave the long drive to Guthrie to come see me. LOL Just sayin'!

Ivie decided to help me yesterday and lets just say that I spent the better part of an hour rehabilitating my beads.  You know it's my fault though.  It's not like you can expect a 2 year old to be neat and tidy all the time, right?  Plus she's so darn cute that I could never could stay mad at her.  Especially when she's saying, "I'll be a good girl, Momma" and "I'm sorry!"  But as you can see, she was pretty proud of herself.

I had to trash most of my tiny little seed beads but I was able to save and re-organize the bulk of the rest.  I'm really having a great time playing with them though and even got a few more sets done last night when insomnia crept in to keep me from my beloved sleep.  Time well spent though, I assure you.

The progress on my girasole is going pretty slow because I mostly only knit on it when I'm with more experienced knitters so as to "try" not to make any serious mistakes.  The progress on hubby's sweater is coming along nicely though.  I'm not too far away from shaping for the arms on the back side.  I'm really enjoying watching those cables appear!

All in all, I have to say thanks to all of you.  You've managed to pull me in and make me a happy knitter along with the rest of you!