Zombies are the new black.

Or something like that.

After a not-so-great weekend, followed by a trip to the emergency medical clinic to have three stitches put into Sage's butt (she sat on a pair of scissors - OUCH!!!), I returned home to find a box waiting on my porch.



When I opened it I found lots of mysterious items wrapped in tissue paper. It turns out the box was my MYB (Magic Yarn Ball) from the Malabrigo Swap group on Ravelry and my spoilee for this round was the insanely awesome Saucy Minx.

I had mentioned that I would love a Zombie theme for a swap package, and she delivered!



Whee! Glow in the dark Zombies peeking out of the yarn ball!

Partway through the unwrapping I had to stop to photograph some of the wonderful yarns she sent me:



And after all was said and done...



My scores:

• Malabrigo Silky in Bosques (OMG such a pretty colorway!)
• Madil Yarns Iceland (a wonderful aran weight wool in basic black, to be used for Bad Juju)
• Fortissima Socka Mexiko Color which will be perfect for the Zombie Socks pattern she included
• Louet Riverstone in Champagne (I had mentioned needing/wanting a nice flesh toned yarn for a few upcoming projects, I think this will be perfect for what I have in mind)
• a grow your own VooDoo doll (So cute!)
• red and white DMC embroidery floss to decorate my Bad Juju
• a package of pins with which to impale my Bad Juju
• a huge box of Jujyfruits (Mmmmmmm... yummy bit of word-play there!)
• my very own collection of glow in the dark flesh-eating zombies!
• some luscious Jasmine Pearl tea from Trader Joe's (funnily, I bought some last week to take to Harrisburg with me and left them here instead... now I have a spare box, one of which will make it to Harrisburg soon I hope, so I can have yummy tea goodness while there)
• a printed out copy of the Zombie Socks pattern, which I love and think will work well with the Fortissima Socka yarn
• two packets of Eucalan wool wash, which I have wanted to try for a while

After the weekend I had, I am very glad for this package to have arrived when it did... I really needed a bit of cheering up, and this did just that.

Thank you, SaucyMinx! You rock!

Vlad the Impaler hat pattern now available...

The Vlad the Impaler hat pattern is now available on the AntiCraft website.

But what is really awesome? It was mentioned on Lime & Violet!

The comment there is priceless too.

State of the knitter...

I've barely updated here at all this summer. I've barely done any knitting at all this summer. I've barely had time to think about knitting related things at all this summer.

This will all hopefully change by fall, when we get settled into our new lives.

I normally don't post personal things here in my knitting blog (I tend to save the personal stuff for my livejournal, where I can monitor who reads my posts), but I am making an exception because this will explain why there's been very little knitting or thinking about knitting going on around here.

Two years ago my ex (high-school sweetheart) and I started writing to each other and finally not quite two months ago we stopped lying to ourselves about how we felt about each other still after all these years. We got together for lunch one Saturday in early June, and that was when I knew for sure that he was the one.

Mind you, there's a bit of a complication to this, in that I seem to be married. But I haven't been truly happy in a very long time, and I finally realized why. And I am finally doing something about it, whereas before I never thought I'd be able to.

Come the end of August, the girls and I are relocating to the state capital, where we will be living with Christian, whom I have loved for going on 20 years now. We both had our failed relationships over the years, and we both have baggage from these relationships, but we are both finally ready to do what we intended to do all those years ago, and that is to live happily ever after. Together.