Eve's Kerrera Sweater

Introducing... Eve's Kererra Sweater! (ravelry link)


This turned out perfect. The colors, the style, the energy of this sweater is total “Eve”.
I LOVE this, a knitter’s ultimate goal is to create something with love that captures that person’s essence. So everyone is happy. :D

She has not taken this off. It’s Aug here in the PNW and in the low 60s.

Knit from Malabrigo Twist in the color way "Indecienta"~

Phew! Was afraid I did not have enough yarn to complete this… ended up with one skein left of a 10 skein bag. (Beware the color differences even within the same dyelot!)

LOVE the pattern… modified by eliminating the double garter at the cuffs and edges, replaced with straight garter instead. (to conserve yarn). 

Also eliminated the pockets.

Washed on “handwash” cycle on front loader… DUH. Should have used wool setting or done by hand (and I KNOW BETTER). Felted just a weee bit but did not alter the size. PHEW. The slight felting did eliminate that wool halo that loves to pill so much with Malabrigo though. So all is well.

A huge success!

Major Case of Start-itis~

This morning I finished Eve's Kerrera (details) (ravelry link), which triggered a serious case of start-itis!
This is a good AND a bad thing. Good because it's cool to have several projects on the needles, having options never hurts. Bad because I am not sure how to stop myself.... ha (maniacal laughter).

On the needles still are...

The Five Year Socks. Lorna's Laces in Amish. Almost to the toe of sock #2, but not in the mood for tiny needles right now so it is in time out. Hopefully they will not turn into six year socks. haha.

My Atelier ~ On sleeve #1 and it is boring me stupid right now. I save that for tune-out knitting when I cannot think anymore and just need to, well... tune out. Fantastic pattern, highly recommended and I am excited to complete and wear it, but zzzzzzz.

NEW projects...
Red Alpaca Dragonfly Cowl~ Just cast on this morning out of nummy Alpaca yarn Co. Paca Peds. (color way is one of their experiments from the lab). This cowl is amazing to wear. I made myself one two years ago and wear it a LOT in the fall and winter. Quick and satisfying project.  Knit about two inches and saw this...

Saroyan scarf~ Researching right now but I am pretty sure I have enough yardage left from my Blue top-down creation to make it. PERFECT yarn for it... Miss Babs Yowza! 

I think blogging about all of this broke the start-itis madness. phew!

The End of an Era~

Today marks the end of an era... 

We are very VERY excited at all of the new changes, this is not a sad time, 

but a time for NEW BEGINNINGS! and how can that ever be a sad thing?

Material Whirled is being phased into our new farm business,  Peculiar Ambitions!

We will no longer be using our shopping cart to sell products.

(This site will only remain active until I get all of my free patterns transferred to the Ravelry.com pattern database.)

Around the beginning of September 2011 the Material Whirled url will forward to my personal blog where you can follow our antics and receive updates.

Link to Reenie's Blog

Link to Peculiar Ambitions' Blog

Link to Reenie's Facebook Page

In the future I will be offering products in our farm's etsy site, but for now we are taking our time through the transition.

Thanks to ALL who have supported Material Whirled over the past SIX years!

We love you and thank you for staying in touch!

xoxoxoxo

Score!

Hit the scary Goodwill Outlet today... This outlet is not a typical Goodwill, it is the place where things that are not suitable for Goodwill go to be sold... it is stinky and scary, but they have these huge bins full of old books... big ole hard covered books for $2!


Got a pile of to make into visual journals.... 
Super cheap too!
So excited.


I will use these to make visual journals ala Mary Ann Moss's Full Tilt Boogie class.
(highly recommended btw)...
I will take pics of the two books I have already made for Eve & Ann and post them here soon.
promise. :)

The Hanlin's Flying Fish~

Eve shot this video of the trout jumping in our pond... 

They jump and eat the baby dragon flies and other bugs that hover over the water.

Eve got her braces off!

Today I was an Aviatrix!... Taking Flight 2011~

Paul got me the perfect gift for my birthday! An hour of intro flying lessons. Not the Kelly Rae Roberts kind of Flying Lessons (although hers are fantabulous too & I highly recommend them...)

... the in the air kind. In a plane.

A month late since the girls were in a production of Robin Hood and we were immersed in all that entails for a month or so... 

So today we went. Just the girls and I since the plane seats 4 and we need that instructor.

James was a great instructor and cute too! Made me feel very safe and let me drive a LOT. 

And take off once (kinda) and land once (kinda again).

SO MUCH FUN!
There was this incredible feeling of freedom and floating and peace. I felt so much safer up there than driving to the airport.  I have wanted to do this since I was a little kid. Yay for being older and having COURAGE. oh.. and the cash to afford it. haha. Can't forget that. 

I am totally going again.... not yet sure I will follow all the way through to get my license or not. Need to process that one a bit as it's a big time commitment and I have two people to get through college.

Here is a link to my flickr set, with some videos and pics~  MORE PICS HERE.

We couldn't fly up to our farm (and hour and a half car drive northeast) since the cloud cover was too think near our mountain range... but will try next time. I also want to fly over the volcano... (maybe push James out of HIS box a bit (evil grin)).