Dream in Color Sponsor- Navajo Knitting

Dream in Color was nice enough to sponsor the yarn I needed to make the Hippo on my quest to knit through the Itty-Bitty Toys book by Susan B Anderson and an extra skein to give away. One of my lucky readers is going to win this amazing skein of Dream in Color Baby.

I used the pink for the hippo tripling it, using the Navajo method, to get the right gauge.
The Navajo Method triples yarn using just one strand of yarn. Check out this Video from YouTube.

I have to say that I didn't try to knit this yarn as a lace weight yarn since I tripled it to make it a worsted weight but loved the way it came out using the Navajo method. This made a very sturdy fabric and made the hippo feel great. I do have some yarn left over and might try my hand in a little lace but I don't have time for it till after the holidays.
The pink brown color did not excite me at first but when I started knitting it up using the Navajo method the color really came out great. I'm very happy with it. I did use a little Palette KnitPicks yarn for the inside of the ears and the bottoms of the feet. I only doubled it since it was fingering weight. It came out very nice. My 2 and a half year old has had this love for hungry hungry hippos and really likes this toy and keeps saying that the hippo is hungry.This hippo even survived being washed the other day using wool wash because my oldest pored chocolate milk over it by accident. Actually I had to was the whole basket of knitted toys and they were fine after. I was amazed and happy that I can do this once a year to keep them clean.

Now to the giveaway. I don't know what the name of the blue color is but it is yours if you win it. 

You have 4 chances to win if you follow the rules.

Here are the rules for this giveaway:
1. Leave a comment on what you would use this skein of lace for or tell me what you are working on right now and a way to be contacted.
2. Sign up to follow my twitter account @olofdrofn and then come back to leave a comment with a way to contact you.
3. Become a follower of this blog or sign up for e-mail feeds at the bottom of the page then come back and leave a comment and a way to contact you.
4. Write a blog post about this and link it to this blog by going to the bottom of this post, click on links to this post and then create a link to this post then come back and leave a comment with a link to the post and a way to contact you.

Sign up for this Giveaway will be open til midnight on the 28th of November 2010

Good luck to you all!

Itty-Bitty Update and Knitting Fever Sponsor.

Since the giveaway I have finished knitting the Frog and the Turtle from Itty-Bitty Toys and started the sisters and that is about all I have done.

The Frog and the Turtle were sponsored by Knitting Fever. Susie with Knitting Fever was nice enough to send me the yarn to make this toy. They were made with Ella Rae Classic Wool . Knitting Fever has so many amazing colors in this yarn. It is a classic wool so it's not super soft but softer than many other classic wools. It knits up evenly and makes a nice fabric. It would knit up great as a blanket or an outer sweater. The lighter green is a heather and I LOVE the color. 

 

The Sisters are knitted with an amazing yarn and I can't wait to finish them and do the giveaway that comes it them. You all will be very excited as well when you find out. Anybody want to guess.

Everybody but me have been sick here at my house. One bad, bad cold. So I have had no free time to knit. Too tired. I've been wiping noses and of course since M is so little the cold made him gag and usually this happened in the middle of the night so I had to clean up vomit as well. Oh the beauty of motherhood.

I did manage to read a book though. I read Sh*t My Dad Says. It was so funny and I will be doing a separate post as a review of that book. I don't think I have read anything that funny and great in a long time. I also finished up Candide by Voltaire and I'm working on Through the Looking-Glass. Candide was interesting and makes you think a little. A bit odd when I first started reading but very readable once I got into it. Through the Looking-Glass is a bit hard for me to read. It is so random but I want to finish it. Nothing is keeping me interested though except that I know I should finish it to know the story.

Tomorrow I will do doing a review and giveaway of the yarn I used to make the hippo so stay tuned.

What do you have on your needles?

Blue Sky Alpacas Winners!

We have 2 winners of the Blue Sky Alpacas yarn to make some toys or something else fun.

The winners are:

Number 42: One Sheep said...
I'm a follower.

I wold have disqualified her if there wasn't contact info when you click on One Sheep because the rules say to leave contact info.

One Sheep won the Worsted Cotton in Aloe  and the Sport in Natural to make the Matroshka dolls.

and ............
Number 103: odessa said...
I love the Multi Cotton in Slushie.

Also didn't leave contact info I guess I am just feeling generous and I found her Ravelry ID on her blog.  

Odessa won the 2 skeins of fine cotton in tan and pink.

Congratulations Ladies!

Contact me with your addresses and I will get this shipped out to you.

Itty-Bitty Update.

I have been very busy these last few days.

 

We are still art journaling. O loves paint! I love his art!

 

M has been sick and just wanted to be held but I tried to get as much done on the needles as possible. Mom has been a God send.

 

I finished the hippo. Will go into the details when I do the yarn giveaway with this one.

 

Finally finished the Cedar Leaf Shawlette. I did some modifications. I cast on fewer stitches because I didn´t have a long enough tail to do the cast on and since I was doing this for the 3rd time I was not going to pull it and cast on again so I just added the stitches in the second row. Then there were a fewer garterstitch rows by 2. Then I had 2 fewer short rows and then I finally had enough yarn to finish. I still need to block it and then I will say what I think about it. Right now I´m just happy that I´m done for the 3rd time.

 

I finished the Big Montana Tunic and now it needs to be blocked. I enjoyed the knit using double Cascade Ecological. It was cheep at 30 dollars for all the yarn I needed for this.

 

This is the Icelandic Sweater Vetur that I was making for hubby but he didn´t like the wool so that I am know knitting it for me.

 

Working right along on my Tea Leaf Cardigan with my own hand dyed yarn.

 

Then now I am trying something new for me which is the White Witch Mitts 2 at a time using the magic loop method. It´s a mess but a learning experience. It´s getting colder here and I´m going to start to need them on my walk to O´s preschool 3 mornings a week.