Happy Birthday to Me Contest!

I have spend a bunch of time recently looking through my yarn stash and setting aside things that no longer hold the same appeal as they did when I purchased them. Sometime in the near future I am going to be listing them all here for sale, and this will hopefully help the two reasons I have not bought yarn in a Very Long Time: lack of funds and guilt over existing unused yarn.

So I was thinking it might be fun to do a drawing and give a away a little bit of this yarn to a lucky blog-surfer. And what better time to start then on my birthday! So if you would like to become the new owner of these 8 skeins of Mission Falls 1984 Cotton,





here is what you have to do: send an email to contest (at) yarndreams (dot) com and put Birthday Contest in the subject line. I will pick a name randomly, let's say on next Wednesday the 8th. Anyone can win and I will ship your new yarn as soon as possible. Good Luck!

EDITED TO ADD: I should have thought of this earlier, but please include your blog or website address in your contest entry. Not required to win, of course, I just want to look! =)

Kind of a slow week.

I have done only small amounts of knitting this week, in between reading HP7 and fighting the dreaded summer cold. Blech.

(Oh, and I haven’t finished HP yet so shhh! No spoilers!)

I finally finished clue 1 on the mystery stole, and am looking forward to started clue 2 tonight. Now that I am going to be working across a fixed number of stitches (i.e. the increases are finished), I am going to place markers every 10 stitches and block off the chart in groups of 10 so it will be easier to find my place at a glance and (hopefully) catch mistakes sooner. I made some non-dangle stitch markers for the occasion:





I know I am going to jinx myself be saying this, but so far I have caught any mistakes before the end of the row so I haven't had to tink back more than a few dozen stitches. I mainly attribute this to not knitting while distracted and luck. Lots of luck.