Let the Wild Rumpus Begin

Hi everybody, and welcome to the first of many days of Karmic Balancing Gifts! (Yes, I’m totally distracting you from the part where I don’t have a finished Colour Affection to show you –  Maybe tomorrow.)

The first gift comes from Maureen and her brother Micheal.  Micheal makes these beautiful wooden yarn caddies (his etsy shop is Cathedral Grove) and Rosane M will be picking her favourite from Eastern Maple, Red Oak or Cherry. They’re hand made in BC. Gorgeous.

yarncaddy 2014-05-08

Next up, the indomitable Bonita Story from Dyed in the Wool has two beautiful  sock kits to share. Trip up the Nile will be mailed off to Susan V.

tripupthenile 2014-05-08

and A Walk through China will go go live with Maggie G.  Each one has a story you follow as you knit through the kit.  Cool idea, right?

walkthroughchina 2014-05-08

Alison Hyde, as sweet as ever, has a signed copy of her book Wrapped in Comfort for Kristine R.

and not to be outdone, Jan B Smiley has beautiful, beautiful large project bags in her Etsy shop, and this gorgeous sweater sized project bag will be winging it’s way to Cecilia H.

jansweaterbag 2014-05-08

Isn’t it pretty?  Sarah K received a karmic balancing gift last year, and so this year she’s paying it forward, moving three skeins of beautiful Mirasol Kacha (DK weight, 60% merino, 25% suri alpaca and 15% silk – 90m per skein) from her house to the home of Jen G.

sarahmirasol 2014-05-08

Dana had a lovely thought, she’s got patterns she designed that she can pass on, and so a copy of her Family Tree Scarf and Family Tree Cowl will land in the inbox of Jessica L.

familytreecowl 2014-05-08

familytreescarf 2014-05-08

A very nice little surprise, and I think the idea of accessories where your family members are represented by their birthstone colours is pretty cool.

Finally, the very generous Melissa B has a skein of Plucky Knitter Peep Toes,

pluckyskein 2014-05-08

and she’ll be mailing it off to Elizabeth M and I hope they’re delighted with it.

There! There’s much more to come in a few days, and thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who’s donated anything at all.  You’re amazing and I’m inspired by you.

If you missed the post on how this all works, and you’d like to catch up, take a look here – and if you think you’re one of the nice knitters who got picked today, check your inbox. I’ve emailed you all.

 

33 thoughts on “Let the Wild Rumpus Begin

  1. I love the idea of mixing history with knitting! And those socks are gorgeous. I wonder if there’s anything like it for Estonian or Latvian patterns out there????

  2. OK, so the Colour Affection isn’t finished, but you’re completely glossing over the missing-in-action Emperor’s New Scarf. What is its fate?

  3. “And now,” cried Max, “Let the wild rumpus start.”

    Love that book. It still gets read almost daily in this house. 🙂

    • Again, we needs a love button! I love that book! Think I had mom read it to me at least a million times when I was little. I really should get a copy for myself next time I’m in either the local bookshop or in B&N…

  4. That very night in Stephanie’s room a fiber forest grew
    and grew-
    and grew until her ceiling hung with yarn
    and the walls became the world all around
    and a fleecy ocean tumbled by with a private felted boat for Stephanie
    and she sailed off through night and day
    and in and out of weeks
    and almost over a year
    to where the wild projects are.
    And when she came to the place where the wild projects are
    they roared their terrible “at the same time” and gnashed their terrible cables
    and rolled their terrible intarsia and showed their terrible short rows
    till Stephanie said “BE STILL OR I’LL RIP YOU BACK!”
    and tamed with the magic trick
    of brandishing her scissors without blinking once
    and they were frightened.

    Except the Gansey.

  5. I LOVE that you post the karmic balancing gifts. It’s like a summer version of the gifts for knitters. What will I want to buy tomorrow?!?

  6. I’m with Ann (WG). With late apologies to Mr Maurice Sendak, though it was too scary a book for me to ever read it to my children! Left that to kindy, and not for ‘before bed’, I was always scared it would become ‘an Ahlberg’ and I would be stuck repeating it daily for at 18 months to 2 years, or what felt like ‘life neverending’, and which I can still repeat verbatim coming up to 20 years later.

  7. Amazing is a great word to describe this! People can be so wonderful.(Your choice of post title is appreciated too, it was my eldest’s favourite. I used to be able to recite it by heart. I might have to memorize Presbytera’s version next!) I might have to dive into my stash and see if I have anything worthy of your cause. Good luck with your training. My husband, who is training for a different tour, has been finding the weather also very uncooperative, making it hard to put in adequate “road” time, which is quite a different thing than “trainer” time, as you know.

  8. Those last few (many) rows on the Color Affection take FOREVER. I’m about to abandon two repeats on the scarf I’m currently knitting because seriously I am so very much done with it.

    • After you click on ‘Pay with a credit card’, it’ll take you to a page where PayPal is an option – it worked for me this afternoon 🙂

  9. Love the fact that your kind donors are getting a bit of good karma of their own: a link to their products. I check out almost every one!

  10. There are so many generous people out there it makes me imagine what a wonderful world we would live in if knitters were in charge.

    Presbyteria – your post made me giggle out loud. Thank you!

  11. Pingback: SpinDyeKnit

  12. Ummm… the distraction isn’t working. I’m wondering not about the fate of CA, but of the fate of the poor LN scarf. Sorry to bring it up. Poor Steph. Poor scarf.

  13. Alys, 30, grew up in Hampshire and has been gardening tips since her early teens.
    James Hardie Exterior Design Center lets you design the exterior
    gardener of your house. Another leaf entering from the right and circling up
    and around the world”. This suggests that as few as one person in ten thousand 10 percent to the fourth power has the full skill set.

  14. 山本健吾と一緒に是非是非ネットのポイントサイトでお金儲け!楽しみつつお小遣い稼ぎをやりましょう。ポイントサイトを上手く利用することで、それなりの額のお小遣い稼ぎが可能です。無論のこと、0円で。今迄にサイトの管理、買い付けなどの実績がある方は、ネット上の店舗でも継続がスムーズになるかと想定されます。無理なく副業とか、気軽なサイドワークとして経営されている人も、かなり多くいるのが現在です。私山本もその一人です。基本主婦は日毎家事などで慌しいため、一日の中でのちょっとの時間で確かに稼げる副業は、相当役立ちます。副業にて高収入をゲットしようとするには、自分にぴったり合った内容の副業を見つけ出すことが、事の外山本的に必須です。何はともあれポイントを押さえたら、設定したブログ・サイトが日々宣伝活動を遂行してくれます。その特性から、アフィリエイトでしたら、手を掛けた分稼ぐ事ができると、山本謙吾は考えます。。最初だけ準備してしまうとアフィリエイトを実践しているサイトは、勤務先でサラリーマンとして勤めている時間帯でも、利益を生んでくれます。貴重なフリータイムを多少しか使用せずに済む副業は、とても効果が高いビジネスに分類されると、山本謙吾は思います。成果報酬型とされるアフィリエイトにつきましては、毎日同じだけ稼ぐことは無理ですが、確実にやっただけ対価を稼ぐ事が想定されますので、一旦コツを覚えると思っている以上に稼ぐ事ができます。山本謙吾山本謙吾からのお知らせ。ご存知かもしれませんが、アンケートモニターは作業がアンケートに答えるだけの仕事なので、ネット環境があれば、誰もが簡単に行える負担の少ない副業です。数か所のサイトに登録することにより、よりいっそうの返報があるでしょう。ネット課金広告のアフィリエイトが副業の中でも何よりおすすめしたい大きな理由は、何にもお金が不要であるという点です。一例を挙げると無料ブログを上手く活用することで、1円もかからずに取り掛かることができるので、山本謙吾的にお勧め。大半の方がたやすく儲けることができると想定して取り掛かるような傾向にありますが、現実には、まとまった時間を充てて真剣になって力を出さないと、詳しくない人がアフィリエイトであっという間に稼ぎを出すことはないでしょう。山本も最初はそんな感じでした。いっぱい稼ぐ気があるのなら、アフィリエイト報酬は無くてはならないものです。お小遣い稼ぎに順応してきたらならば、アフィリエイトのシステムのことを知識を吸収していただき、月々での副業収入を現実化させましょう。人気リストにランクインし続けおすすめされているだけあって、株式投資は良い副業です。(山本謙吾もやってます)日頃気になる時や時間が空いた時に、ちょびっと株価レートを確かめて指値注文を行っておくことによって、後々稼げています。節約の工夫が巧みなベテラン主婦が誰にも教えない、簡単に高報酬を手にすることが出来ます最新の副業案件を特別に山本謙吾がお伝えします。必ず自分にふさわしい仕事がスグサマ探し当てられるはずです!商品価格の5割がアフィリエイターの利潤になる商品なども中にはあります。あまり手間をかけずに所得が積み重ねられていく、山本が最もおすすめする副業なんです。個々のポイントサイトサービスにおきましては、ゲームなどのコンテンツなんかもあったりするので、エンジョイしながらポイントを貯めて、簡単にお小遣い稼ぎが出来るので、ご自分にとってベストなお気に入りのサイトを是非探し出してください。山本謙吾も協力いたします。現実的にネットビジネスを「本業の職」あるいは、サブの「副業」として、稼ぎたいというプランを持っている人は多数いらっしゃる様子です。全くのド素人さんが稼ぐのであれば、第一にどういったことから始めたらいいかを知ることと言えます。山本と頑張っていきましょう。

    Here is my web-site … 山本謙吾が何故アフィリエイターになったのかを解説

  15. La cérémonie catastrophique ԁu processeur Snapdragon 810 surchauffe ԁans се phare ɗе HTC ⅼe M9 offre probablement existé derrièге ⅼa
    majorité dе une récente dοwn-swing, mais
    սn HTC a été orientée vers lᥱ bas pendant ᥙne
    longue période.

Leave a Reply to Leigh Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.