the blue blog archives: it's your knitting calling

Okay, so I'll admit it, I haven't knit but for a few minutes since baby L arrived. There just hasn't been much time where I was both awake and had my hands free. But I'm hoping that this new arrival will help motivate me to find some time.

It's a whole box full of gorgeous Shelridge Farms yarn from The Sweet Sheep (one of the cutest little online yarn stores there is!). I'll be working on a design for them and am really excited about it. This yarn is soooo soft and the colors are soooo awesome. And I desperately need to do some knitting again!

posted by alison at 9:09 am | in design workshop

Comments

That's a tempting treasure box!

Posted by: Felicia at March 15, 2007 9:24 AM

Can't wait to see what you will make out of the pink yarn. Congrats on the new baby, she looks so precious! :)

Posted by: ~Jo~ at March 15, 2007 9:46 AM

Ooooh Shelridge Farms yarn! Enjoy!

Posted by: Johanna at March 15, 2007 9:51 AM

What beautiful, happy colors to have around with a new baby girl in the house.

Enjoy your knitting, and enjoy your baby!

How are the boys adapting?

Posted by: Emilee at March 15, 2007 10:02 AM

So pretty! That pink is right up your alley... The woman who runs Sweet Sheep just visited my store recently, very cool :)

Posted by: Dani at March 15, 2007 10:07 AM

What amazing colors...hmmmm

Posted by: Darci at March 15, 2007 10:17 AM

You are amazing. Baby L is just a bit more than a week old and you're back to blogging. Plus you're ready to design and knit. Your energy is an inspiration.

Posted by: Sherry at March 15, 2007 10:41 AM

Oh, I know that call... sometimes I just don't want to hear it, and other times, it's me who's calling the knitting but the yarn doesn't hear me (that's when I finish something and don't know what to start next).
Nice yarn box!

Posted by: Dorothee at March 15, 2007 10:46 AM

That yarn is soooo beautiful. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

Posted by: pennie at March 15, 2007 11:06 AM

oooh, I went nuts at the Shelridge Farms booth at Stitches West. I bought some lovely pinks too--can we say, "Candy Floss" ? Who can resist a color like that!

Posted by: Juls at March 15, 2007 11:12 AM

Oh, how I love yarn. Peeking into such a box instantly makes me wish I was at home instead of work. :) What is it you're going to make? (And btw, a friend and I are going to be shop-hopping this weekend... any awesome yarn shops in the Denver/Littleton area? I've been to a Knitted Piece in downtown Littleton, but that's it...)

Congrats again, Alison! I'm sure baby L will love all of her beautiful, soft things. :)

Posted by: Minns at March 15, 2007 11:39 AM

Ooh, that looks hard to resist...

Posted by: C at March 15, 2007 12:03 PM

Yummy yarn. :)

Posted by: Samantha at March 15, 2007 12:17 PM

Oh those pinks are gorgeous!

Posted by: Laura at March 15, 2007 12:23 PM

I'm looking forward to a photo of Baby L and the sweet little doll you made for her. (By the way, my older daughter's name is Lily - well, really Elinor, which we picked for several reasons, one of which was so we could call her Lily - and she has been extremely happy with that name. Don't know, of course, what YOUR "L" stands for. I'm guessing "Lickidysplit! Or "Lilliput." Or "Lillikapookiliana" or whatever the last queen of Hawaii was called. But not "Linoleum" a la Bert on Sesame Street - I hope you're familiar with that episode, or I'm going to feel very silly........)

Posted by: Mary K. in Rockport at March 15, 2007 12:55 PM

Shelridge Farms wool is lovely, I was in their booth many times at Stitches West - they had the incomparable Lucy Neatby and I could not get enough. Looking forward to seeing what you create.

Posted by: Sonya at March 15, 2007 1:04 PM

What she's like a week old and you don't have the knit with baby technique down yet :) Enjoy your moments as they come - what ever way they come. That box of yarn is tempting though. Can't wait to see what you do with it.

Posted by: michelle at March 15, 2007 3:26 PM

All my 3 children loved being carried in the Baby Bjorn. With my youngest I would often knit when she was in it and soon she got so used to it that she would only fall asleep when I was knitting. Hope you can get a lot of knitting done!

Posted by: Elisabeth at March 15, 2007 3:42 PM

Girly colors!
Yay!

Posted by: Lynn at March 15, 2007 8:29 PM

If you can find time to knit and care for yourself and a newborn, you deserve some sort of award! Or perhaps you have a calm, easy baby like my first daughter (who continues to be an amazingly accomodating child)? But my twins (now 13 months) resulted in a EIGHT-month bleak spell of no knitting whatsoever. Oh! The sacrifices we make for our children! (:

Posted by: m at March 15, 2007 9:22 PM

You, dear, are amazing. Having a baby, coming home, taking care of baby and boys, and ... and getting more yarn!!! I don't know how you do it. I would be tempted to hold sweet Baby L non-stop!!! Yeay for new baby and new yarn!

Posted by: Heidi at March 15, 2007 11:12 PM

That yarn is postively yummy looking. The colors are so sweet, and the texture comes across in the photo beautifully.

Best,
firefly

Posted by: firefly at March 16, 2007 8:02 AM

That yarn looks good enough to eat! Like some yummy strawberry ice cream confection! I hope you are lucky in the baby napping department. My darling granddaughter who just turned 4 months has not slept much during the day. She has always slept pretty well at night but generally is up wanting to be held & entertained about 12 hours a day - nothing more than 5-10 minute cat naps (& it takes about 20 minutes to get her to sleep for those). I had a baby girl just like that (not the baby's momma - my other dd) & know how exhausting it is. So dd has gotten not a single stitch knit in 4 months! This week, sweetiepie took nice 2-3 hour naps twice. So we are all hoping this is a new pattern!

Posted by: Donna at March 16, 2007 2:56 PM

to quote Jane Krakowski: "Yummers" :-)

Posted by: Orli at March 18, 2007 10:56 AM