My 3rd package!!!!

I got my third package yesterday from my secret pal. It was an awesome last package!!! She filled it with Candy-- Bottlecaps and York Mints in the cute little tins!!! I got nail decals that had dice, hearts, skulls and crossbones, etc. She gave me some silly feet baking cups that I can't wait to use and surprise my girls some how! I also got 2 skeins of Lorna's hand dyed super wash wool yarn in a most amazing color called "Black Purl". Some "That's Alright Mama" Elvis coffee that cracked me up! Six patterns for lace snoods-- ranging in difficulty and silk lace weight yarn in a gray black! Then the surprise she made for me was a felted hand bag with a skull on it--- it is GREAT!!! And inside of that were three presents for my 3 girls--- All items for the girls had the skull/ punk rock theme: notebooks, pencils, Pez candy and dispenser, erasers and little bead kits. My girls were all so surprised and excited!!! And then to top it off, I think she made the card--- I know she collects Eiffel towers and the card was a picture of a collection of them!!! She does everything great down to the last detail!!! Lucky, lucky, lucky me!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you Cheryl!!!

Gloves and Eiffel

Here are some of the things that I have knit, that my secret pal has sent to me.
The sweater is made of hemp and is a cute pattern from Knitty. The gloves are a kit with hand dyed yarn from Sugar Apple Creations.
Heeeey, my last package just arrived as I was blogging! I haven't opened it yet, I'll let you know later what I got...

Best Pal!!

So everything is winding down and final packages are arriving! I am so impressed and thrilled with how great you all have been to each other! Looking through all the donated prizes (and there are still a couple on the way) there are three amazing prizes for best pals. Until I get the last of the donations, I will not post the best pal prizes, so you will just have to take my word on it :)

I have been trying to figure out how to honor those pals who are the "best" and here is what I have come up with. All three prizes will be drawn out of the Shriner's Jeep Patrol hat by mr.sunneshine on June 12th. To nominate your pal, send me an e-mail with your name and blog and their name and blog and TWO sentences on why your pal rocked your world! I must have this information by June 10th at midnight Denver time. I know two sentences is not enough space, but you have 11 days to craft these two sentences. On June 11th, I will cut and paste a post with all the nominees and the two sentences glorifying their gift giving/friendship/best-ness for all to read. If you send me more then two sentences, I will cut/paste it down to two sentences - and don't try to submit crazy paragraph long run-ons either, the Nuns in grade school taught me how to edit those down, too. June 13th, I will post the winners and the prizes that they won (and e-mail them to verify their address).

I am still working out the future of prge - but there will be a future! I am thinking a one month, not secret summer exchange, then doing another long one this fall. If you have any suggestions/comments, feel free to post them here or send me an e-mail.

Happy Knitting!!

Sort of Unrelated, But I Need Your Help!

Y'all, it's the ultimate knitting nightmare. I ran out of yarn on a project with a fairly substantial amount to go, and discovered yesterday that it's been discontinued. *SOB* The project is Lucky from Stitch n' Bitch Nation, and the yarn is Berroco Softwist Bulky in color #7450-Violet. Here's what I have done so far:

The back and the right front, and I'm almost done with the left front. I still have the sleeves and the neckband/ties and the seaming to do. If anyone has any of this yarn, please let me know, stat, and I will be more than happy to pay you for it, pay for the shipping, and send you goodies and love as well. I just bought two skeins on eBay, but it won't be enough to finish the whole thing.

Any and all help, advice, ideas, suggestions and whatnot are greatly appreciated. I'm going to call around to all my LYS's today and see if they have any, but who knows what will happen there. You all just may be my last hope...

Jules Be on the Lookout

Final box mailed, I took a little extra time as I was making an extra special surprise for my Pal's final box, (didn't we agree to do this for 6 months?) heeehee
I can't wait til she receives it so then I can post a pic. Nothing stupendous, it just came out exactly as I wanted it to...Thanks Sunne for hosting this PRGE....it has been one of the most fun I have been in so far. Both my sending to Pal, Jules, and receiving from Pal, Piper are great. Very sweet, kind ladies(sorry I know lady is not a real punky word). The most awesome thing about them is the importance of their families in their lives. It has been my pleasure and honor getting to know them both.

BEST PAL PRIZES

Another gift for best pal arrived last friday (sorry Cheryl, I got behind!)!! Punk Knits by Share Ross. It has some awesome punk patterns and techniques for those who want to design their own! It was donated by Cheryl at Knitting Knut - Thank you so much!!

I am so glad to see the third packages arriving!! And people being so good to each other!!! The nominations for best pal will be opening on June 1st and closing on June 10th. There will be some guidelines to follow if you want to nominate your pal - they will go up on Friday!! I think there will be three amazing gifts to give with all the cool stuff people have donated!

Happy Knitting!!

PRGE2: The final package...

Yeah! My final PRGE2 package arrived! And, what, oh what, did it contain, you ask? A very lovely silk tie with penguins (how cute!) and a deceptively prissy little pink box that contained a skull keyring! If you lift the top part of the skull, the clock underneath is revealed. How cool are these gifts? Thank you so much Chrissie! You've been a great pal!

thanks Elspeth

Elspeth sent me some Cascade yarn, a cute little bag to hold my yarn, and the Knitter's Lib book. Thank you for all the gifts throughout this swap!

Staci

Yarny day!!!

Lets start off Yummy with Fairy Bread. Ok it did come from my final parcel.
But there was the gorgeous sock yarn and binary stitch markers for me. I only said the other day I need more socks for winter as its gonna be a cold time in Oz this year.
My Favorite type of needles in my favoured length and Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud. Knit picks is such a luxury to us folks in Oz they wont post us at all.
Now the Yummy stuff. Sprinkles for Fairy Bread. I love Fairy Bread so it was a great ecuse to make some again. Syrup Waffles that are very yummywith caramel between what tastes like speculas.

Robert has been wonderful in this exchange I have got things I love and new things to try. I now have things to think of what pattern suits what to make.

Punk Rock Gift Exchange - The Final Package

The third and final package of the Punk Rock Gift Exchange arrived yesterday. It was waiting patiently in the mailbox for me when we arrived home from Nicholas' doctor appointment. And it was a great package to come home to. My upstream pal - Kate - had sewn this really funky bag. I am gonna take it out this saturday when I do the grocery shopping. Also there were two balls of cotton from one of the Vickie Howell lines. This was from the Craft Collection - 35% Milk Fiber and 65% Organic Cotton. It is really soft. I have no idea what to knit with it. But its not gonna be dishcloths. The color shown is 775 - Chica. The cool part is that lil Nathan actually recognized Vickie. He has seen alot of Knitty Gritty with me. And last but not least, a very cool necklace with pirate & nautical charms. Big thanks to Kate!!!

Barbie is listed...

Many of you know that I made a punk Barbie for a design contest for the Rocky Mountain News!! Well, Barbie was posted in the news today, finally!! Here is the link:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/fashion/article/0,2792,DRMN_62_5552102,00.html

My Barbie is "modern mohawk". The Barbies turned out so well that they are being auctioned off on ebay for Dress for Success, a great cause!! You can rate all the Barbies on a scale of 1-5 - if you go please, give my Barbie a 5!! To see all the dolls, and there are some great ones, you either have to go to the ebay link or rate the dolls... Its super fun and kinda punk... And I really want to win, so I am trying to get all the votes I can...

Thanks for all the support, in advance!

Thanks Staci!

My Amazon package finally came in after they sent it to someone else TWICE. Staci sent me two great books, Sew What Skirts and Craftivity. I think I'll have to get started on the shopping bag knit from cut-up plastic shopping bags ASAP. And after that I can sew a skirt, and knit a sweater to go with it, and, and, and...
Somebody stop me.

If there was one thing you'd love to get...

What would it be?

Go!

Shhhhhhhh

Vewy vewy quiet here. My pal's final package will go out in a week. How is everyone doing?

Thank you!

Thank you so much to my pal Carissa!!! She sent me yarn, a book and some great cookbooks I really need to try. I really appreciate it!

awesome package!

hey! i hope everyone is enjoying this as much as i am. i found out who my pal was when she sent me a birthday present, how cool is that?!?! its lesley!! seriously shes so freakin awesome! and this is what i just recieved from her:

two kraemer yarns in the color birch, two knitting pins, a cat tape measurer, a row counter, a eyeball sticker!! a problem solver book, and a containter with a collage on it of music/knitting/fashion!! omg im seriously in luv with it all! Thank You Lesley, you rock my socks off!

Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut...

and if you're one lucky gal like moi, sometimes you get an awesome package from your secret pal, and mine is the fabulous Ms. NutScraps! Look at this rockingness:


Where to begin? We have an uber-cute graphic flower notebook, some oolong tea in an awesome package, some KILLAH bamboo yarnage, a vintage yarn cutter, asian plum candies (delish!), a truly fabulous hello kitty MARSHMALLOW pop, a cool little vintage candy tin, some kind of squishy purple thing that will come in so handy on blah office days, Prozac Nation by Lauren Slater (she even checked the ole Amazon.com wishlist, y'all!! we are talking serious awesomeness here), and a funny little tapestry pillow. A delicious mish-mash of goodies, indeed that might not have been if the post office had carried out its dastardly scheme to steal muh package!

And of course, she included some more crack for muh boy... he's lolling in a nip-induced coma right now, and I am laughing at him. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Ms. Jennifer! You're awesome indeed!

Best Pal Gifties from O'Kitten

Okay, the pictures of these suck! There are two awesome sets of magnets made by O'Kitten donated to the best pal fund!! I didn't want to unwrap them, so you'll just have to take my word that these really are amazing little magnets and they are wrapped up so cute! Thank you O'Kitten!!

Package 2 arrived in UK!!

Thank you abbytrois for this great package. I LOVE the scrabble tile stitch markers, they are so great. What can I knit next to show off my markers? The Sugar 'n' Cream yarn will be used to make a picnic blanket for my little granddaughter Livia, and I might even edge it with the Bling Bling if that's not sacrilege. The alpaca is the most lovely colour, a crushed raspberry, and so, so soft. I'm afraid the chocolate has disappeared into my greedy mouth! I appreciate everything, even if I haven't mentioned everything. Thank you again, you rock!

I know who's been spoiling me rotten.

Admist all the other lovelies in my package, there was one item I didn't really harp on. My pal tells me the nail-in-the-coffin clue to her identity was in the box...... I think it's those lovely RED Boye knitting needles ----- as in Red Stick Knits.


Dear Shannon Ann,

Are you my pal?

Sincerely,
Kate