~ Sponsor:
Trickle Creek Farm and Fiber is donating a bar of their soothing goat's milk soap and some of their bubblin' bath salts! So wonderful!
~Contest:
Come play with us in le Tour de Sheep! Post photos in the Ravelry Group so help inspire us to spin and knit from our stash!
~Knitting/ Spinning:
I just started that sock last night and did all the toe increases. The rest has been knitted in the car on the way back and forth to Seattle and while I was at the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon! I didn't think there was such a thing as too much chocolate, but I was proven wrong. But it was so much fun! I also got asked questions about my knitting while I was taking a chocolate break! Yay for KIPing!
Finally, last night I started knitting the Brandywine Shawl by Rosemary Hill! I'm knitting it out of KnitPicks Shadow Laceweight (which runs $2.99 for 440 yards! Awesome!) I've knitted the first 30 rows and I really like that the pattern is charted and written line by line. I think it will help me improve my lace skills.
As for spinning, I've been working on some 50/50 baby camel/ tussah silk on my Akha spindle, some merino/bamboo/silk blend on another spindle and some Polwarth on my wheel! Yay for le Tour de Sheep!~Free Entertainment:
Crooked Row: by Kim, an awesome new podcast about knitting and gardening! Kim is going to be a huge asset to the knitting and gardening community!
Knitting Pipeline by Paula: Paula is a knitter and a bagpiper and she talks about how those 2 things affect her life! Her voice is soothing and her music is really lovely! Check out both of these shows on iTunes!
~Garden Update:
The garden is doing super well, and I thought I'd share a little about my chickens!
I have 2, a Barred Plymouth Rock (the black and white one) and a Gold Laced Wyandotte (the gold and black one). They are super fun! They live in my backyard and they have an indoor and an outdoor coop that is connected by the little trap door you can see in the above photo. The outdoor coop is where they hang out during the day (if we aren't home) so they can roll around in the dirt and be cool. The outdoor coop is connected to the indoor coop by a sweet trapdoor. The 
indoor coop is actually my childhood playhouse that we converted into a coop! Inside there is a nest for their eggs, and their perch that they sleep on. The trapdoor closes to keep any predators out! The usually wander in there when it gets dark and go to sleep!
They are super adorable and fun, and fresh eggs are so delicious! The are super inexpensive to keep, about $15 every 3 months. A 50lb bag of feed is around $10 and lasts about 3 months, and a bag of the pine shavings on the floor of the inside coop lasts about 3 months and is around $5. Sometimes we trade the eggs for other produce and the chickens eat the bugs out of the garden! The only downside is that the poo attracts flies (even when Aaron is awesome and cleans it up every day) so we have to be sure to wash everything in the garden super well! But we'd probably do that anyway, so we love having our chickens around to make us breakfast! I know a lot about chickens, so if you guys have any questions about keeping them in your yard or anything like that, I'd love to answer them! I think everyone should have chickens because they are rad!
~Sales: (/ Tip of the Week/ How I Saved the Week!)
- WEBS is having an awesome sale on silk laceweight cones! Only $37.49 for 2450 yards! That's a lot of shawls!
- Amazon has a Polaroid 10Mp digital camera for $70 because it is orange. The silver one (that is exactly the same) is $150! I bought my mom the orange one for her birthday because she wanted a new camera and this one was a great price!
Tip: Be open minded about colors as long as it won't affect the performance! Sometimes things cost less just because the color isn't popular!
How I Saved: I got my mom an awesome gift for a little bit of money because I used my KnitCents!
~Worth It!
The Cool Girl's Guide to Knitting by Nicki Trench
I picked this up at JoAnn for $5, but Amazon has it for $.99!! The patterns aren't great, there are probably only 2 that I would actually knit, but the techniques pages are really well done! The pictures are really well done and the descriptions make a lot of sense. The book is aimed at young girls (like teenagers) and while I probably wouldn't wear a lot of things from the book now, I would have worn everything in this book (at the same time) when I was about 15! If you have a young lady in your life that is interested in learning to knit, for $.99-$5, this book is TOTALLY WORTH IT!
~Contact Info
Ravelry: Roue
Twitter: Roue0824
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