Traveling Woman...

For those that don't know - I travel weekly for my job.  It is great on the pocketbook and difficult on the soul.  My knitting is my daily meditation.  Here is the view from my office in Springdale Arkansas.   I want to talk a little about the type of projects I have going on at the same time. 3 Categories..

I try to have something super easy on my needles at ALL times.  Something that requires no thought - or very little.  It has to feel good-- no cheap yarn..yes I am a bit of yarn snob - but I believe if I am going to spend the time to hand make something - it needs to be high quality fiber and feel really good.  Even the easy stuff. Think Socks Hats Mittens. A quick fix

Enter Fingerless Mitts...hellooo beautiful!A wonderful and cushie DK from a company in Uruguay- similar to Malabrigo.  This is a simple Mitten pattern with no top.. yup topless.  Simple ---easy.  Fits Category 1.  Bought this beautiful fluff on our trip to Wyoming.

Category 2
Usually a bigger piece.. sweater or something... again not too difficult, but longer in duration to complete.  Afghans and blankets fit this bill.  But for now... I have this great sweater on my circulars.  In a silk and cotton from Knitpiks..

That leave us with Category 3- this does not travel with me, it is too complex and too fussy to bear travel well.  I only work on it when I am happy and content, have eaten and exercised and feel totally undestructable.  It is the project that lays in wait sending tendrils of black smoke from my closet.  This is the project that challenges me and I learn something new.. even if that "new" is that I hate this project.

  These socks fit the bill.  They wait for my return.. yeah buddy you and the mold in my refrigerator.

Wyoming is for Lovers!

My husband and I took a wild and wooly journey to Wyoming.  Having never been there before we were enchanted by the wild beauty.  We make our way through Kansas, Colorado and finally up through Laramie.  What an amazing place.  Now if Logan had been a girl -- he would have been Laramie.. no one liked that name but me  .. and I didnt care much -- being very pregnant.  But I digress..

So let me tell you about the rock and roll guy I married - he was looking online for a good place to eat lunch and then handed me the phone - with a map - and on the map was ..no fainting - no hyperventilating.... a YARN SHOP...yes my husband willingly showed me a yarnshop - knowing that it may lead him to hours of being bored as I touched and gazed at every skein. 

So let me introduce you to Cowgirl Yarns.  http://cowgirlyarn.com/

I had a wonderful time - found my elusive size 9, palm, lantern moon straight needles and bought several beautiful yarns and some fleece to spin. 

And it was not all misery for Mike.  The curator of the shop was from the area, and lead him on many adventures in farming Wyoming style.





The best guy ever.