04.05.08
My Knitting Bag
I got a knitting bag!!!
I was shopping at Barnes & Noble and got this bag for $4.95 (!) because I bought (more than) two items.
Isn’t it gorgeous?! The picture doesn’t even do it justice… you can’t really see the blue pattern on the sides… It’s perfect… my favorite colors AND it has a dragonfly, and pretty flowers, and writing! I’m in love with this bag!!!
I already took my knitting to school with me (along with my fluteophone & music book) last Wednesday. It was fun to have this pretty bag, and convenient!
Now I don’t have to carry my knitting in my purse, and worry about it being snagged by pens or my hairbrush or keys!
02.20.08
New Stash!
I finally picked up a bunch of new yarn! So all my yarn has labels, and I was able to enter them all in my stash info at Ravelry. =)
Bunch of Red Heart & Lion stuff for now, but in the future I want to get into hand-spun and hand-dyed artisan wool. As for these store-brands, I love the Caron ones, as they’re more special than the run-of-the-mill Red Hearts. =)
We saw one bin of small skeins that had fur… but they were $28 per skein!!! I never expected to see a price like that LOL!
So I can’t wait to find projects for all my new lovelies. My faves are the blue/brown one (I *heart* turquoise with brown) and the fluffy jade Caron and the mossy Caron fling. And of course the nameless shiny one in the basket, which didn’t have a label.
I also picked up a pair of bamboo, size 8 needles, and a bamboo “J” crochet hook. I tried to sit down and learn crochet in an hour with videos, but it was tricker than that. =) I’ll keep at it, though.
For now I need to finish up my husband’s dice bag, and make another for a friend who requested one. And finish my stash photos for Ravelry… my camera ran out of battery power before I got through them all! =D
01.19.08
My Knitting Corner
Complete with cat. XD
I just wanted to show off my cute knitting basket that I’ve had for ages, like before I ever tried knitting or had yarn.
But of course Nal had to upstage it with HER cuteness. =^-^=
I love that she nests in my knitting bag! Isn’t she so squishy? 
I don’t care about stray fur yet, since it’s just my inherited scrap skeins in there.
(Pardon the dirty computer and wandering scrap bunnies on the floor. My headache says no to cleaning and then re-shooting the scene.)
P.S. Yes, I am a victim of ze fugly gray berber carpet. But not to worry! I intend to ditch it soon for the hardwood underneath. But first, sanding and such. It *is* a hundred year-old floor! (But fortunately, the only room in which the hardwood wasn’t painted over.)
01.17.08
Welcome!
Welcome to Lia’s craft blog – Cascading Purls!
Knitting, though new to me, has become a passion. It fulfills the “fuss over some small pretty, soft, repetetive/meditative thing” part of me, as well as the “create or die” part. And then I have a pretty shiny to keep or give away! (Or sell, in the near future…)
I will also be getting into crochet, and maybe even tatting, as well as all my other craft interests (beading, scrapbooking, paper crafts, sewing, etc.) which I will also post about here.
So I expect my readers to be mainly friends and family, but if there really are random people out there who find my projects interesting, I welcome them with warm soft things and tea. =)
