Shocked at the time

Sitting here I am shocked at how long it has been since I have done anything here. But there is a good reason. Since the last time I was typing the husband and I have been trying to be awarded a veteran's house through a wonderful organization called Homes for Heros. They are giving homes to veterans that come home from Iraq and what not. Now in February of this year (the 3rd) we were told that the house we wanted was not good for us. But there is another house that was better for us and we were given that house instead. On the 24th of February we moved into our house and have been slowly settling in. I cannot wait until the 14th of this month. That is when the wonderful foundation that gave us this wonderful house is going to be flying us back east to be presented our house at a HUGE gala. It is going to be with the NRA where they are going to be presenting to us. I am not sure what is going to be going on there all I know is that they are flying us out and letting us stay in a hotel. This is going to be the first time in 17 years that I have flown. Good thing it is going to be done with the husband as well as with some close friends of our that also were awarded a house through the wonderful foundation.

All the while I have been practicing with some yarns to see what they are looking like when I am dying them. So far I have made one that has a white and blue coloring in which I am going to be seeing what happens if I add some red to it. I have also found that there is a bamboo yarn out there that handles the color really well. For the testing I split the yarn into half and dyed them at the same time. One came out looking very creamsicle and the other was more of a pinkish yet they were dyed at the same time in the same container. I will show pictures later. I am going to see how they come out when I knit them into something. I have also had some left over cotton yarn and dyed them a VERY deep and bright red. Those too were VERY beautiful. That one will be knitted into something nice with pictures posted also.

I am also making some more of my star bottles since the mother-in-law has found me some AWESOME bottles to put them in. I cannot wait to see what they are going to be like once I have filled all of the bottles with the stars. Or as many bottles I can fill with the stars. Once I have them filled I am going to be selling them online on my ETSY store and see how they do there. My ETSY store is located HERE. Check it out and tell me what you think of it.

As usual I am always looking for new patterns to do since I am addicted to knitting but I am also making more sewing items. One of those things that I am making is the recycle bags as well as I am currently working on making an apron and seeing how it comes out. If it comes out nice I am then probably going to be making them and selling them in my ETSY shop. If anyone that reads this has any ideas outside of the box that I should be knitting as well as sewing please let me know I love having ideas tossed at me on what to make.