thanks

Thank you to all the knitters who have purchased the Eiki shawlette pattern.  Thanks to you, the donation tally so far is $1300!  I'll be making a donation to the Japanese Red Cross in a few days and I'll post here when I do.  Meanwhile, I've added a tally to the top of the right sidebar if you want to know how much is being donated.

I've been keeping an eye on the news of the nuclear reactors in Japan, and sending positive thoughts to the people of Japan.  I am so impressed with how calm and caring people have been in the face of this multi-disaster.

In knitting news, I'm currently working away like a hamster in a hamster ball on something unbloggable, so I think I'll take a moment to show off some previous items. 

This is Lani!  I met her recently at Madrona, and I was thrilled that she introduced herself and showed off her colorwork mittens!  These are the mittens from my colorwork club/online class, made with Jared Flood's Shelter yarn which is a really cushy, warm woolen yarn.  She chose the pinwheel quilt pattern from among the two quilt-inspired choices. 

And here's a picture of her Chullo from the same club.  This was an exercise in design, she chose the elements and how to place them on the hat.  I love the turtles and the rabbit together on this hat.  The yarn is Classic Elite's Fresco which is wool/baby alpaca/angora.  It comes in lots of bright colors so it's perfect for this style of hat and it's so warm and luscious, just what you want on a cold wintery day.  In fact I wish I were wearing mine right now!

Beautiful work Lani!!!

And now on to some showing off from my other colorwork club, the Illuminations colorwork sock club.  The yarn for this club was Shibui Staccato, a terrific superwash/silk blend that has a nice body and shine. This is the first pattern from the club, Dawnsinger, and I just love the way Meghan photographed it!

And here is  Marion's version, she chose to do one of each pattern for her pair.  Dawnsinger and Habitat.

Brava Meghan and Marion!!!!

One of the most wonderful things about what I do is seeing what other people do with it.  It really makes my job worthwhile.

OK, it's time to go back to the secret knitting, but I'll have some more not-so-secret stuff to report very soon.  Another shawlette is on the way and a new pair of socks too!