Local knitblogger Deb is thinking of opening an Etsy shop to sell her hand-dyed yarn. If you suggest a name for her store that she ends up using, you could win some of that same hand-dyed yarn. Leave your suggestions by June 4.
Had a good weekend up at the cabin with my brother and SIL and I even got a little bit of knitting done. Friday was 80F, sunny, and very buggy. It rained Friday night; Saturday was cloudy, breezy, and at least 25F cooler. Definitely fewer bugs. Sunday morning we awoke to lazily drifting snowflakes! Eeeeeeeek!!! No bugs, though.
I was one of numerous winners of Sachi’s birthday contest for my amazingly brief revised lyrics to Happy Birthday. Sachi sent me some of her gorgeous handspun (with beads!), a skein of Cascade Sierra Quatro (which I haven’t tried before), stitchmarkers, and some chocolate (not pictured). Thank you, Sachi!
“Is Neatnik reading? I know she likes pictures of my butt.” -Chaos
Local knitblogger Kelly sent Chaos and May some catnip mice that she made – you’ve already seen a couple of the pictures of how well the mice were received and you will see more, since one of the mice had Chaos cavorting like a kitten!
“Mmmm… stripey… Hey, wait a minute – I do not cavort. Whatever that means, I’m sure I don’t do it.” -Chaos
Check out what Kelly included for my refrigerator – thanks, Kelly!
Yesterday my Coffee Swap package arrived from (tragically blogless) Laura, who knows how to do an awesome swap package. She baked gluten-free biscotti for me and they’re very yummy! In the picture below, Chaos is trying to get into the bag of biscotti – no way, Chaos! Those are mine. Laura also sent me some Equal Exchange fair trade coffee, a wee bottle of wool wash, two balls of purple Jaggerspun wool silk and an Addi lace needle (with a note that she better see some lace on the blog soon…), dark chocolate truffles (not pictured…), black kitty statuettes, and stitchmarkers.
“I’m sure Laura meant to include a note that the biscotti were for me.” -Chaos
The stitchmarkers came in a cute necklace style bag, which will be very handy for holding markers as I need them… and keeping them out of harm’s (feline) way. There was one more blue kitty head marker that managed to evade the photo shoot.
The black cat statuettes are really cool, aren’t they? (No, I will not be getting another cat so I have a set that matches the statuettes!) Thank you so much, Laura!
Wow! You are a lucky grrl!
Hey great swap! What really does it for me? the heart bag. That is incredibly cool! Enjoy your goodies!
That’s some great stuff! Lucky you! Oh, gluten-free biscotti…yum. And those little statuettes are cool.
Sorry, Chaos, she’s at school now. I’ll try to remember to show her your butt later.
Imagine my surprise when I thought I was opening an etsy shop! Thankfully, I can fade back into obscurity……
Chris- Maybe you can make tiny bibs for the statuettes.
The stitch markers are the cutest- and I love the bag.
I really like the idea of a necklace style bag for stitch markers. How clever!
What a cool swap package! I love the statues.
Reminds me that I need to get my butt going on my Coffee Swap package.
Lucky you all around — I particularly like the blue kitty stitch markers… and the magnet… and the… lucky you all around :*)
But… then the poor catless statue that doesn’t have a furry counterpart will be sad. Poor statue.
Wow, she is a swap package expert!! You are very lucky!
Tiny bibs for the statues! *dies laughing*
Poor matchless statue. Won’t you think of the statue???
Wow! The black cat statues are so cute! And the stitch markers and their bag are wonderful!
I quite like the idea of little bibs for the statuettes. Not for the stitch markers, though; that would be weird 😉
I like the statues, they remind me of an Annubis statue – which is also cool. So anyway you cut it, it’s more Fonzie than Potsie.
Great loot!
wow what a great mailing day for you…
and why not get a 3rd black kitty? You about the power of three right? I would think that power would be great because they would be black kitties.
(hehehe)
oh and what a great idea the stitch marker holder bag is! ok hope she doesn’t mind but may have to steal that idea lol…i have about 25 knitted cell phone bags that i didn’t know what to do with …now if i add a cord, some bead they will magically be transformed into stitch marker holders! woohoo….ty to your swap partner…and hope she doesn’t mind….or better yet does she have a blog? maybe we can ask her to share her pattern for her little bag? 😀
(geez…we yarn addicts are thiefs huh? OH i mean sharing generous souls)lol
Aww, there are so many stitch markers that you could share! I’m sure Chaos and May would appreciate it if you dangled one on their collar!
Hey, I’m knitting a shawl out of that exact yarn – wanna borrow a picture to post on your blog? 🙂
LOL, Vikkie! Sharing generous souls… definitely sounds better than yarn addict thief. 🙂
I love the idea for the stitch marker bag to keep the pretty danglies out of kitty reach. Only problem is, I suspect my Suzy would enjoy playing with the bag as much as the markers.
I wonder why all the chocolate is followed by this:
(not pictured)
Could be to “protect” the felines – but I’m thinking there is something else at work…..
Wonderful stuff! I really like the stitch marker bag/necklace. I’m inspired to go find my embroidery floss.
Chaos, it’s OK to cavort! We won’t laugh (much)!
Oooh so much pretty and fun stuff! *drool*
Abundance Abounds for real! Thanks for the shout out.
Wow!! That is such a great swap package! You better be knitting up some lace soon! I wanna hear how you like the addi lace needles!!! 🙂
I’m so sorry I missed sign ups for the coffee swap – seems like a blast!
An abundance of riches!
(((hugs)))
I don’t know…having three kitty statues and only three kitties? Sounds like bad mojo to me….
Wow – great stuff all ’round. I’m a little suspicious about the tails on Chaos’ mouse, has Mayhem been at them already?
erm…only having TWO kitties…yeah.
Wow, what a great haul. I really liked the 8 thigns about Mayhem. It was fun getting to know the little fur ball better.
Love the flat kitty picture.
although it also made me very sad as I saw a little black kitten like her crossing the Mississippi River bridge in the middle of the interstate. I couldn’t stop to save her either, so I cried all the way to work. She was over half way across, so hopefully she kept hugging the outer bridge wall and stayed out of traffic.
I just love those cat statuettes! What an awesome package.
I like pictures of Chaos butt too. 😉
I’m glad you like the loot.
Great kitty stitch markers, and I LOVE the black cats!
Chaos, Mayhem…how I missed you!
Oh, and you too, Chris. 😉
I’ll gladly grant you an honorary claim on my black cat Ophelia to “borrow” as your third so as to keep the Mojo balanced. She’s always fascinated with Chaos and Mayhem’s antics.
Awesome goodies!!
Very cool stuff in your package!
Going from 80 degrees to snow is very strange weather. Yikes!
Wow, what great packages. I’ve wanted to try the wool with beads on it.
Oh, you ALL just make me blush! The little bag is crazy quilted. All you really have to do is cut out 4 pieces of fabric, in this case, heart shaped, sew two pair right sides together, leaving about 1 1/2″ open. Turn, press, stitch openings closed. Stitch two finished hearts together with a decorative stitch like blanket stitch leaving top open. Attach a ribbon for around the neck and voila! Okay, so I was a quilter in my former life. Also, isn’t there something wrong with giving someone TWO SKEINS of Regia silk lace weight and what everyone goes dorky over is a little quilted bag??? I thought this was a knitting blog! Har har!!
Chris, DH & I agree that the new third kitty should be named “Havoc.”
Cool goodies! One of these days I’m going to try spinning with beads. It’s good to see Chaos is keeping up with his inspection duties.
Oh go on – you need a third 😉 Definitely Havoc!!!
you can’t go wrong when a swap includes chocolate!
i like how Chaos interjects his little quips. hopefully he’ll save some biscotti for you!
🙂
Cute cat statutes! How tall are they? Three inches? Five?