Snow Day!

It snowed! Finally can make snow angels.

Well, not good snow angels. The snow was pretty heavy.
But we still had fun!

Wed update

We've got the winter crud here. So not much exciting is happening. A lot of laying on the couch and staring at the TV. While the cold medicine was working yesterday I knit some. And! After 7 yrs of marriage, my husband has a PAIR of hand knit socks. Finally! :)

I knit them in Hazel Knits yarn in the Sassafras colorway. First time using this yarn, and I LOVE it! Very nice stitch definition, and super nice colors. Love. I shall be buying more. :)

 This is the best picture I have on them as of yet. It is one of me modeling them. What is super exciting is that I was able to get a size 13 pair of socks out of 1 skein of yarn! There is 16 grams of sock yarn left. whew!

So! That's a skein out!
Yarn Destash 0
Yarn Knitted 1
Yarn In 0

Total -14

I also joined a Mini skein swap.  I'm cutting up a skin of my bugga into 22 mini skeins. In return I'll get 22 different  bugga colors back.  I've never done of of these before, so I'm kind of excited to see what I get back. I'm thinking I want to make one of those cute ripple blankets, so we'll see. :) 

My husband.

He does comics.

He rocks.

And the St Cloud Times did a story on him. :)

Go HERE.

Blogging More.

Yup. I'm trying to blog more.  I get mad when my favorite bloggers don't have new posts, so I'm totally going to blog more.  Not that I really and truly believe and anyone out there is waiting for me to post more...but. Still.

Look! I made a hat.  It's a hat for a brand new baby. M's coworker and his wife expanded their family, and I love knitting tiny baby hats.So there is a new tiny baby hat. Yeah! I snapped the picture just before I stuffed it in the bag to give to them.

So, that's another skein of yarn out! :)

Yarn Destash 0
Yarn Knitted 1
Yarn bought from destash 1 (yarntin sock)

Yarn total -13

I also wanted to show off my big super spending just for me me ME! Gift to myself. :)
I did some commission work, and I counted these when I bought them in Jan. But here is my Vday Bon Bon set from Verdant Gryphon. And I am in love. :) It wasn't from budget money, and I destashed more out then in. So I can totally be guilt free about it, right? I feel like I don't deserve it. But really, what else would I have spent extra bonus money on?

Knitting, Knitting.

So last night was my first time teaching a class at work.  My BFF Rose was there to help me, and thank god for her! I has 7 students, and holy cow! It was a lot of work, but fun. I hope they all had fun too and learned! :)

Yarn Tally!

Yarn out destash - 5 skeins
Yarn out knitting - 2 skeins (really, 2.25 but I'm only going to count whole skeins)
Yarn in - 4 skeins (only a buck each at work. But still. Gotta count them all)

Total from last time -10

New Total =   -13

Not bad! Still more out then in! :)
I'm only counting the yarn as knitted out after the project is finished.  I've cast on 3 new projects this month, but finished only one. Counting when I'm done will hopefully keep me honest, and that way I don't count it as out, to end up frogging it later. :)

Fabric tally still sits at zero/zero.

And, just because I haven't shown any pictures in forever, here is my son modeling my new hat.  They yarn is a cheap-o mix from work.  A buck a skein! But it looked a little hand spun, and the colors sucked me in.

Less is More

So, this year I decided that I'm really and truly going to work on not having so much stash.  I've given myself some rules to follow, lets see how long they last. :)

First one would be "more out than in"  Which I actually did this month! Hooray!  I bought no fabric what so ever. And for yarn, I destashed 15 skeins of yarn, and bought 5.  Which brings me to the second rule, I can only buy with destash money.  Or 'free' money.  Not budget money.  Like I said, so far so good. I'm also trying to knit things up, so that counts as out as well.  So I might try and keep track at the end of each month, just to see how I'm doing. :)

Yarn  15 out   5 in   total -10
Fabric  0 out   0 in  total 0

Lets see, what else is going on...
I'm the new knitting instructor at Crafts Direct. Woo! My first class in Monday the 6th.  I'm pretty excited, and hope all goes well.   I'm also taking Wilton's Class 4 at Crafts Direct, and the first class is tonight, and I am not prepared at all.  They just got the kits in, and I haven't even looked at the sheet to see what I need. But I'm super excited to take it!  :)

Nothing  really exciting happening here I guess. Which I'll totally take, as when things get exciting, it's normally the bad exciting.