I signed up for a knitting virtual vacation swap.  Matt makes fun of me daily (jokingly of course) but it's been great fun so far!  Right now they have a BINGO game going that is proving quite addicting since you have to find the blog that corresponds with the location- much harder than it sounds!  It's filled but check it out anyhow.  If they do it again definately get in the three ladies heading it up are so incredibly creative.  I've never done a knitting swap like this, I've done a few seed swaps and a few other dishcloth swaps-very few went well but I have high hopes for this one!

http://virtualvacationswap.blogspot.com/

That is what I've been spending my morning computer time on lately! =)

I dyed yarn for the first time this weekend.  It was SO much fun!  I only dyed one hank of the worsted weight bare from knitpicks and it seems like the WW is a bit on the thin side, but it turned out pretty.  I used koolaid and just kind of mixed until I liked the colors.  I LOVE the orange, but I wished I would've used yellow instead of pink since they look pretty close to the same color.  I'm making a ribbed spiral hat and it's turning out so nice.  Here's a few pictures- I have two more skeins to dye, plus I found a ton of light slate blue superwash I bought off of ebay that I'm not thrilled with so I'll overdye that with blues, greens and purples.

here's a picture of the hat over the ball of yarn- the orange isn't showing up too well, but it's a gorgeous orange:

And here's a close up of the stitches- again the orange isn't photographing well

It's a long weekend- YIPPEE!!  I am so tired of winter, some weeks I'm exhausted by Wednesday and the rest of the week just drags so very slowly.  Now that we have so much snow I dread having to go anywhere since our driveway is so very long and the wind blows it over so completely I get stuck.  And having to half carry half drag 4 children through the snow isn't as fun as it sounds!   Here's a picture of Matt's truck buried in the snow

One good thing about all this cold and snow is I've gotten lots of knitting time.  I'm working on the Anouk from knitty anouk and I LOVE the colors I'm using- it reminds me of a sunflower.  Here's a picture from yesterday I was on row 50.

My MIL is Jewish and I found a great site that had Jewish dishcloths on it, so I made her the dreidel.  It turned out really cute.  I used some of the cotton I got in an exchange so I don't know the color but it was perfect for the dreidel!  The pattern doesn't show up the greatest in the picture, but it was very nice.  Let me see if I can find the link for the pattern- here it is scroll down a bit dreidel cloth

With Christmas quickly approaching, my time for completing knitted projects is practically non existant so I had to find alternative gifts.  I had wanted to make a bag for my grandma so I found what I thought would be a good sweater to felt down and turn into a bag.  It had already been partially felted (by mstake I'm assuming) and was quite thick as it was.  One trip through the washer yeilded this amazingly thick wonderful tiny sweater just asking to be a simple bag.  A pretty flower embroidered and a pink polka dot lining and it's perfect- I hope my grandma likes it, or I want it back!   Here's the picture of that one:

And since I was on a roll I dug out a cute snowflake sweater that was a bit too itchy (and tight) and washed it up.  It didn't felt as nicely as the white one, but it fit perfectly over the straw bag I bought at the Salvation army for $2!  I need to add some new lining it has red checks now but it's cute.  The snowflake was up a bit too high, but it had to be since that's were the armholes fell, but it'll be for my brotehr's girlfriend if she comes up over Christmas- mine if she doesn't!   So for $3 I got two cute bags! It was a good day!