True Confession Time

I can't seem to help myself..I am obsessed with knitting socks. Yesterday, I was standing in the kitchen knitting while I was waiting for the water to boil...I had 4 spare minutes so I figured...what the heck I can do a couple of rows...that's when I realized I'm a sockaholic! Doesn't matter where I am, who I'm with or what I'm doing if I have free time you can bet I'm knitting socks. This leads me to my second confession...or I suppose that I am confessing on behalf of my son.

Yesterday somebody pointed out that I kept making things for my son David and not for my son Daniel. Alas and alak ...that's not true! I made David a Personalized Towel because he lost his Incredible hulk towel the first day of camp...the next day I made another towel for Daniel. Unfortuantely, Daniel lost his personalized towel the first day he brought it to camp! The irony is staggering isn't it?

Next I made Daniel a pair of "lovey dovey" socks out of Cotton Joy. I finished up the toe at the park (I told you I would knit anywhere) and he immediately changed into them. Within 5 minutes he was down in the ravine digging clay out of the creek bed and the socks were caked with muck! They still haven't been washed and blocked so again no picture! As you can see there is no need to worry Daniel is getting his share of the crafts!

Meanwhile, Monika finished making up the Favortie Things Lunch Bag using the lollipop frog fabric and some funky dots! It was a quick afternoon project and the the little lunch bags make great gifts. We used some thermal batting inside the bag to be sure that our lunch would stay cold!

Knitter's Club and Lots of New Yarn

On Tuesdays during the summer please join us in the afternoon from 1 - 3 for knitting and chatting. We have informally dubbed ourselves the "sock club" because Hilma is showing us how to make socks. If you have never knitted before we will get you up and running with a project ... if you are an expert join us for the company! There is no charge so just feel free to drop by and join us... don't be shy! 10% off all knitting supplies and yarn for those who join us!



This week we received three beautiful yarn collections. The first one is aptly called "Yummy" and it is a sock yarn in absoultely delicious pot dyed colors. There are 10 to choose from and each skein is 16.99 --- you can knit an average sized pair of socks from one skein.







The second collection is Wisdom - Marathon Sock Yarn. These are self-patterning yarn named after all the great running marathon cities: New York, Boston, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Lots of great colors and styles to choose from and they are well priced at per 12.99 ball (and you can knit an average sized pair of socks from one ball).

I've decided to leave the third one to tell you about tomorrow...as there is a whole bunch of related information to pass onto you!

Hope to see you Tuesday!

Buy A Ball..Give A Ball

We have a great new program in the store: the Buy a Ball – Give a Ball Program. Diamond Yarns, a local distributor, has offered us some beautiful Chunky Snowflake yarn at a very low price. For every ball that you purchase Sew-Sisters will give one ball to Project Linus. Enjoy a tremendous value for yourself and donate to a worthy cause at the same time!

The SRP of this yarn is $9.79/ball. For only $3.49 you get one ball for yourself and one ball to give away!

If you can't use the yarn yourself we encourage you to add a ball to your order anyhow and we will give both balls to Project Linus!

Project Linus is a not for profit organization that supplies children in need with gifts of homemade blankets and quilts. You can drop off your homemade blanket or quilt at the shop anytime and the Project Linus Blanketeer will ensure that it gets to a child in need.

Project Linus also provides a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children. There are many willing volunteers to knit blankets who cannot afford the cost of the materials. You can help get yarn to needy women in our community through our buy a ball – give a ball program.

Mark Lipinski's In the House!

We have been waiting and waiting and waiting but Mark Lipinski's new Line Califon is finally here. We love both colorways equally. The patterns and designs are bead and embellishment "friendly" so they are just waiting for your finishing touches.

Califon - Black and White Fat Quarters

We are trying to decide what to make with them and my mind is spinning with ideas - a bag? a quilt? something flashy for the house...here are some links to what other people are up to with it...
Jean Boyd has been making her trademark picture frames using the black and white run.

Mark's got a great bag made with the yellow and blue line coming up in his magazine and there is a sneak preview on his blog!

Pati Carey of Northcott made a show stopping quilt in the blue and yellow.

Now let's see what we can come up with!

Califon - Bright Fat Quarters

For those of you who aren't familiar with Mark Lipinski. Mark is the “the bad boy of quilting” and is a media phenom! Mark conceived and developed an innovative magazine for quilters named Mark Lipinski's Quilter's Home, which is published byCKMedia and is available on newsstands and by subscription. He is also a designer, teacher, quiltmaker and much talked about public speaker!

7 in 7 ... Final Tally!

Last week I challenged myself to complete 7 projects in 7 days... actually I promised to finish one project a day for 7 days ... but I am attempting to revise history since I didn't quite make my goal!



Here is the tally:

Project 1 ... Gnome Pillowcases -- completed

Project 2 ...Baseball Pillowcases -- completed

Project 3 ... Yo Yo Pillow -- completed

Project 4 ...Personalized Towel -- (David) completed

Project 5 ...Personalized Towel (Daniel) completed *

* Would you believe that my kid has already lost this towel? I'm hoping it will reappear tomorrow but as of today it is missing. So far this summer we have lost: 1 Hulk towel, 1 bottle of sunscreen, 2 baseball caps and today the whole swimming bag including the brand new personalized towel and swimsuit! ARRRRGGGGGHHH.

Project 6...Cotton Striped Socks for Daniel...getting closer to completion ... I have finished the heel of the second sock and am well down the home strectch towards the toe...might finish tonight (which would be 3 days late).

Project 7...Binding My Hunter's Star ... started this in a class with Irene Dewar back in February. Cheryl of Magpie Artworks did the gorgeous machine quilting. Sandy and Hilma even made the binding for me and I still haven't sewn it on ... even with 3 helpers I haven't given it to my parents yet! I will definately do this next!

So all in all I did 5 in 7 days but I did get number 6 much closer to completion than it had been earlier in the week. I am going to do a UFO list and see if I can work my way through it. But for tonight I will be back to finishing the socks!