Yarn for Garden cardigan

I got this yarn to try out at Let's Knit store in Gardena. The store was nicely stocked with yarn but was also nicely cramped and suffocating. But lena and I still managed to spend an hour there. She got some nice gold paper to fold cranes while I got the silky wool by elsebeth lavold. Who can pass up a yarn with the name silky wool right. I thought it'd be the perfect yarn for the Garden cardigan. I would just have to double the strand and since they didn't have needles bigger than a 13, I had to use that even though gauge calls for 15. I'm hoping it will work out. It was very hard getting used to working with such huge needles since I've been working with size 2's for socks. Right now I have about 5 rows left then have to graft up the under arms and find some buttons for it. Can't wait !

Shibui

This 1 skein of Shibui I got because it was on sale and I wasn't sure how nice the yarn is. Let me tell you, it gorgeous and soft from the feel of it. I will have to knit myself a pair of slipper socks with this 1 skein for sure.

Sweet Georgia!

Look at that beautiful color of this yarn that I got at "eat, sleep, knit" . I was so excited to find this there and the shipping was incredibly quick! The yarn is so nice and soft, one of my new favorites. I'm thinking of making the "Olive" pullover with this and the Orange Fabel for the yoke. The 2 orange shades are very similar.

Sock yarn!

Look at this beautiful array of colors of Fabel yarn from Nordic Mart! The boys have already picked out their colors. Mikey wants the dark purple as his next pair and B wants the aquamarine one. I love these in that I can get a pair made from 1 skein with enough leftovers to make Adam a pair as soon as I can get the dimensions right.

Another pair done

Another pair of slipper socks done for Mikey. Now billy wants a paid too. Working on his second one right now but then got distracted with new yarn coming in the mail from Webs and Nordic mart and Eat, sleep, knit. I know, will post those pix soon 

Mikey's Turkish bed socks

This is currently my obsession to knit. After knitting up this pair for my son, he wore it for 2 days and 2 nights saying they are so comfortable that he didn't want to take them off. Plus, he's requesting for a pair in every color. This, coming from a boy who's always hot. I do love to knit these with garn studio's fabel superwash though and just got 8 new colors! And now, my second son wants a pair of his own too. I just hope they hold up after washing and being abused by these boys of mine. I also tried to downsizing to make baby a pair but it came out too small. Back to the drawing board.

My Risata grass arrived!

Thanks to a kind lady from TX I can now continue with my turtle project. I had given up on it actually and was close to frogging it since the lady from OR promised that she would send it out to me that day but never did. I just happened to say to myself, I'll just check my Ravelry mailbox again just to be sure. And guess what, there was a message in there waiting for me saying that she has a skein to sell me. And the rest, as they say, is history. The only problem now is that I've moved onto 3 other projects and so my turtles must wait for me ...