Old Hooked #5: "Too Cool!" (2-1-11)

It's a Knitting Basket Cake!! How. Cute.

Old Hooked #4: "I WANT A BUNNEH!!!!" (1-31-11)

I want a bunny terribly. I'm looking at getting an English Angora so I can spin its lovely fiber :) I found an ARBA registered breeder only 45 minutes from us!! Here's his website: The Fair Hare. There's a SUPER CUTE Bunny Cam which is a webcam he sets up over his bunnies so you can watch a live feed of them being adorable!! I have to confess...I've been watching it all day ^_^ I've also been researching them for the past 24+ hours. I've been learning so much: grooming, feeding, house training, even the genetics behind coloration. I just spent a few hours reading articles and taking a quiz! For example, a Blue Tort Angora will have at least these genes: aaB_C_ddee. As usual, the upper-case is dominant and the lower-case is recessive, therefore, you need only one dominant in order to show, but two recessive in order to show. aa = non-agouti, B = black, C = colored, dd = dilute (dilute of black is blue), and ee = non-extended (tort). The empty space next to B could be B or b (b is brown), and the empty space next to C could be C or c (or a bunch of other c's with superscript letters that I don't want to explain. Plain ol' c is for the albino gene). How cool is that??? Well, I think it's fun ;) If you want to try it out, HERE's the link.

Chris and I plan on taking a trip to see his rabbitry in a few weeks to chat and visit the bunnies. We're thinking we'll be able to get one in May, and that works perfectly if he breeds the rabbits when we visit or if he has already bred some right before (one month gestation period and 2 months for weaning). Wouldn't that be cool? I could watch my bunny grow from conception!! Haha, well, maybe not that closely! Maybe right after that! I also want to be able to visit the bunny (once a week?) while he/she is growing up before I can take him/her home. I'll have to work that out with both Chris and the breeder. I don't know if I want a boy or girl yet. I'm thinking a girl, since Bo is a boy. He might bond better with her if she's not oozing testosterone. All details to be worked out in a few weeks :)

I'M JUST SO EXCITED!!!

Old Hooked #3: "Latest 2 Projects" (1-26-11)

I crocheted a couple of Christmas presents in 2010. I did a couple of coffee cozies for my mother-in-law and a Cthulhu hat for my hubby! Both Patterns came from Ravelry. Here are some pics!











Now I'm working on knitting a scarf! I've never knitted anything before, so this should be an adventure! I'll post pics when it's done :) Wish me luck!!

Old Hooked #2: "New Yarn" (9-17-10)

Well I'll be honest; the new yarn was a huge disappointment :( It's not necessarily the seller's fault, but the pictures were kind of misleading. I thought I was buying worsted weight, when in fact, I was buying fingering. So now I've got a few hanks of embroidery-floss-sized yarn, and no idea what to do with them. The grab bag box wasn't a total loss, though. The main complaint I have with it is that hardly any of the hanks are plied, so they're a pain in the patella to ball up. Lesson learned: eBay yarn = not necessarily a good idea unless you know what you're looking for.

Old Hooked #1 "Euphoria!" (9-9-10)

I have just been floating on cloud 9 today :) I can't definitively say why, though. Perhaps it's because my birthday was yesterday, my husband spoiled me ROTTEN, and I got to spend it with awesome friends. Or it could be that, in celebration of my birthday, I skipped all of my (two) classes yesterday and today. It could also be that I just got my enormous order in from Amazon, which included 2 knitting/crocheting books, Sia's latest CD, and the Three Wolf Moon shirt, along with many other goodies. On top of all of that, there's THIS:



I ILL'd this book sometime last week and I picked it up today. I just LOVE it!! It makes me a billion times more excited for my big shipment of assorted yarns coming in!! (Remember that part about my husband spoiling me? ^_^) I spent a solid couple of hours just reading and dreaming about someday having my own dying and spinning studio. Part of me wants it to be it's own little, tiny house out by the barn, hooked up with electricity and water with its own mini-kitchen area for dyeing, a nice big spinning wheel, and a fireplace and rocking chair for crocheting. Then again, if I make it too nice, I'll never see my dear husband! :O Perhaps I'll keep it in the house, then :)

Well, I'm going to go read some more and anxiously await my yarn. I'll post pictures when it comes in! Hopefully there's some green so I can make Chris an alpaca Cthulhu hat!! I just bought the pattern last week! If there's not any green in the box, some green Vanna's Choice will do. He's not picky :) Tootles!

The Plan

I'm transferring all of my blog posts from Hooked here to more easily manage things. I just don't like having multiple blogs as much as I thought I would :\ Here goes!

Hmm...

So, I'm not sure if I like this whole "2-Blogs-at-the-Same-Time" deal. I already down-sized from 3. Maybe I'll do some tinkering and see what I can do...