Win a $50 Gift Certifcate to the Fat Quarter Shop!

Ah...so many things I could do with $50 at the Fat Quarter Shop! I'm sure you could do a lot, too...so head over to P.S. I Quilt to enter your chance to win!

My Two Favorite Things...Together!

There are two things I love: knitting (you knew that) and classic movies. Doing the two together brings me great joy. But then when I'm knitting and watching classic movies, and then the actor/actress in the movie is knitting, it makes me giddy. Here are some of my favorie classic actors/actresses knitting.

Katherine Hepburn...LOVE! She is my all-time favorite.
Favorite Katherine Hepburn movie: The Philadelphia Story

Cary Grant...sigh, so dreamy.
Favorite Cary Grant movie (so hard to choose): Arsenic and Old Lace

Rita Hayworth...the most beautiful woman ever. (And probably THE woman my husband would leave me for if she were still alive and they were the same age.)
Favorite Rita Hayworth movie: Gilda ("Decent? Who me?")

Bette Davis...an amazing actress
Favorite Bette Davis movie: Now, Voyager (although, I still need to see more of her movies)

Ingrid Bergman...so elegant.
Favorite Ingrid Bergman movie: Notorius

KnitPicks Lace Sampler = Savings!

Depite my woes with my other lace yarn and not finding the right project, I couldn't pass up the deal the KnitPicks was offering on lace yarn samplers. Each hank below is 440 yards, and I got all of them for $24.99!

This is the "Riverstone" color pack.

There are four color packs you can get. The top left is "Atoll." The middle left is "Coral Reef." The bottom left is "Riverstone" (the one I bought). And the right is "Deep Sea." It was very hard to choose!

All of the hanks in one pack can be used to make the Chinook Shawl on the left, or one hank can make the Pyrifera Scarf on the right. The sampler packs come with the patterns for both. I'm not sure if I'm going to use them for that, but I'll have to see how my lace knitting is coming along. It takes great concentration...and I'm lacking that lately.

Here is another look at the Chinook Shawl spread out. So pretty!

One More Try

Yep. Down below is a picture of ANOTHER new pattern for the lace yarn I bought back in January. If this pattern weren't going so well, I'd think this yarn was jinxed. I think it would take two hands to count all of the projects that I've started and pulled out with this yarn. It's so bad that the yarn is starting to look a little fuzzy in the beginning. But, I'm not going to let that stop me from FINISHING this one! It's going to be a shawl...maybe a Xmas or birthday gift for someone. This pattern is working really well, so I think it will stick...then again, I thought that about the last pattern this yarn was raveled up in.

Holy Drool!

I feel like the luckiest duckiest girl in the whole wide world! Just lookie at the wonderful RAK I received from memoe33 on Ravelry! Fabric! Lots and lots of fabric! On my July wishlist, I had asked for scraps of designer fabrics or fabrics in patterns that look similar to the designers I like. On a knitting site like Ravelry, I didn't think it would go far, but boy-oh-boy was I very wrong! I can't wait to get started on all kinds of projects. Now I just have to figure out what those projects might be.

Still drooling!

memoe33 also included two quilt patterns she created. Such a great RAK package!

Cupcake Bouquets

When you need a sweet little bouquet, this project is perfect. Head on over to Inspired Ideas to see the tutorial for these cuties.

Itty Bitty Blueberry Pie

Over at Whip Up there was a Whimsy Girl tutorial link that shows you how to make the sweetest, teeny felt pie using a bottle cap. It's seriously takes about 10 minutes to make one of these, so how could I resist? (And a borrowed camera is how I took these shots.) Bon Appetit!

So cute and calorie-free!