Random pictures from my phone....

Lot of knitting, chicken antics, sunsets, hand calligraphy and such going on lately.

My cousin is getting married and I am knitting the halo blanket for her. I'm also hand lettering all of her wedding envelopes. She has a very long guest list so it's been a big project! I finished them this week!!! Woohoo! Now to finish the blanket....ALMOST!

Ravelry link for Halo Shawl

Picture Perfect for a Lesson

Can you think of a better place to take lessons? nope. I didn't think so.

As I sat outside last night to enjoy the weather and knit, my sister Liz was holding a beginner crochet lesson on the farm. It was picture perfect for sure.

Basket Making with The Shore Fiber Arts Guild

Over the weekend, Shore Fiber Arts Guild met at our farm for basketweaving.

My mom and sister Liz are members so I joined the table with my knitting and my camera.

The Shore Fiber Arts Guild is a Monmouth County based organization for people interested in sharing their love and knowledge of fiber arts.

They are knitters, spinners, and weavers with a wide range of experience and expertise. They not only enjoy knitting, spinning, and weaving but also dyeing, felting, basketry, beading, crochet, and just about anything related to the fiber arts.

The membership fee is only very minimal (I think it's $15 a year) plus material fees.

For this workshop the material fees were only $3. How awesome is that?! One of the members guided the group and shared her knowledge on how to make the baskets.

For more information about the group or to join, visit their website:

Shore Fiber Arts Guild

Here are the photos I took from the day....

It's a great group of women and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

After the baskets were done, I pitched in and used the woodturning tool to sign a few baskets.

Thanks to the ladies for letting me sit in and document the day.

Yarn Along everywhere with my shawl!

My Halo shawl is with me at all times. It's the perfect on the go project and it's been so enjoyable to knit. There is something soothing about a pi shawl combined with Jared Flood's designs that make me happy. It's easy to follow, never more than a few lace repeats to memorize and it just goes and goes...round and round. 

I'm knitting this one in O-Wool fingering super wash. Now, let's talk about super wash wool. Some people are super against it and I get that...but this is going to be a gift for someone that doesn't knit and might not be as aware of care of a 100% wool or alpaca blanket might need. OR if you're someone like ME that ACCIDENTALLY put their Leaves of Grass shawl knitted with 100% baby alpaca IN THE WASHER AND DRYER and it came out as a small crumpled up sad wonky shaped blob of wool....then yeah, Superwash is sometimes a good idea.

Yes that happened to me. It was years ago and I'm still trying to recover.

Anyway....back on track. So yes, I'm knitting this with fingering O-Wool wash in the Oyster Mushroom color way and I love it so far. I'm on the lace edging right now and on track to finish it in time to gift.

In other knitting news, I have taught my son's girlfriend how to knit and she's obsessed! YAY FOR ME!!!!!!!! Maybe not yay for my son. LOL. He said he feels like he's with his mom when she's knitting. hah. But I'm thrilled that she likes it. She's made 2 hats already and I took for a trip up to Chelsea Yarns in Red Bank for their sidewalk sale. We had a good time. Doesn't my son look thrilled in the store photo?! I designed the big banner for their Shawlapalooza knit along. Love doing the graphic design for Christina. Such a fun shop and she's awesome to work with.

We had a really nice little snack lunch at a Crepe store. (Purple Debbie if you're reading this you would like it there). I had a coffee, Chase had ice cream, Dalton had an apple pie crepe and Maire had a cheesecake crepe. They also have breakfast and lunch crepes. Yummy! And very cute inside. The cafe was a hit with all of us. We had a really nice time in Red Bank for the afternoon.

I've been bumming about not getting to the beach much this summer. I start to twitch if I don't get good beach time in!!!! So last night we all went up the beach and had pizza and then some beach play time. I'll take what I can get these days. It was a picture perfect weather night and I of course got a few rows knitted.

Hope you're all having a good summer and knitting up a storm!

Links: Halo Shawl

Whipped Creperie

Chelsea Yarns