My scavenger hunt swap box

has arrived to my home from Norway, according to my Hubband. I am on vacation away, but am looking forward to opening it when I get home on Friday.

Whoduknit Bottle Swap

Swap is Open to Whoduknit Members Only

Okay - back by popular demand - The Bottle Swap! What is a bottle swap? This is how it works. You buy a two liter bottle of soda. Then you drink it (or pour it down the drain). Wash it and let it dry. Then you take off the label and cut an X in the bottle. Here comes the fun part. You fill it with goodies for your partner. How do you know what to put in it? Well - you are a member of Whoduknit, right? You read mysteries? You know all about stalking? So e-mail your partners from an anonymous e-mail address, go to their blogs and do some research, google their names - never know what you will come up with! Yarn, books, patterns, handknit items, knitting accessories,bookmarks, candy etc. But nothing breakable please! Then tape the opening shut, glue the top onto the bottle, tape a mailing label on it, and take it to the post office to mail it.
Penny has suggested that you first line the bottle with tissue paper before filling it so that it will not be too tempting for someone to decide to keep for their own, and that sounds like a good idea.

The Rules

1. Sign-ups begin July 7 and end July 15. Partners will be assigned by July 24.
2. Everything you mail MUST fit into a 2 liter bottle.
( Exception: If you are mailing international, you will have to put your bottle into a box or a padded envelope to mail it. Please check with your PO for size and weight limitations.)
Bottles must be mailed by August 24 (but certainly can be mailed earlier). You will need to get a delivery confirmation number and send the number to me. (For international mailing please provide the custom number).

This is a secret swap - the person you are sending to will not be the person sending to you. It's up to you if you want to remain anonymous - but it's really fun to do that.
Want to Play? Of course you do! Here is what to do:

Send an e-mail to me, grammieknits@yahoo.com with the subject line "Whoduknit Bottle Swap" and include the following information:

Your full real name
Your e-mail address
Your mailing address
Your blog address if you have one

Your Ravelry name if you are on Ravelry

Your telephone number (this will be kept confidential and only used in case of a communication breakdown)
Willing to mail international : Yes __ NO __

home environment : pets___ smoke ___

allergic to : pets ___ smoke ___other____

Thank you Judy Brown!

Got home from our mini vacation to find this great box on my doorstep.....had to tear into it right away!!!!

Let's see...there were a couple of regional items - the green yarn, and a box of yummy candy!

Silly items included an Arthritis magazine and the Chinese take out for two box!

The yummy yarn really is yummy...Knit Picks Alpaca Cloud in the most yummy color - Tide Pool!!!!

Two great books - Medicus by Ruth Downie and The Cat Who Moved a Mountain by Lilian Jackson Braun.

Some great knitting magazines.....and a fantastic journal to keep all my projects listed....been looking at those!

And best of all - a drop spindle, made by Judy, along with some lovely roving - I dont think the phot does the colors any justice - a lovely teal blue, a coral, and a mixed pastel!!!

I hope I havent forgotten anything - this was a fantastic surpise box!!!!! And I love everything - thank you so much Judy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Kimberly

Kimberly---you more than spoiled me. I'm glad that you're all moved an life will someday return to whatever normal is! (I would have no clue as to what normal should look like!) Darlin', you out did yourself. I am more than grateful. I'm excited, too. Best yet, I was having a crappola day yestereday...running errands and trying to get food packed to leave on time for my daughter's softball state qualifier tournament. When I got home and saw the box I said, "I dont CARE if we are late, this baby is getting opened." My mood improved, we were there with 3 minutes to spare before the caravan left the parking lot (and the second of 5 parents there) and all is good. They lost both games (not a big shocker) and we'll be playing near Duluth on a weekend to come.

but I digress (and that's all the Victor Hugo I remember)

Here's the goodie run down:
M - Mystery book is Showdown by Dekker. Haven't read him, very excited to try a new author.
Y-Yummy Yarn, nashua handknits creative focus brushed alpaca. Never seen it before, and YUMMY is the word in a pretty shade of pink. I will enjoy working with this yarn. I bet it ends up as a luscious scarf.
S - Something silly - who doesn't LOVE play dough?!? It's already been absconded by my teens. I'm happy cos most of their sumer break has been chilly and gloomy. PLEASE play with the play dough!
Tasty Treat - some Nuss - Dessett cookie things I can't wait to try. Soon. Very soon. Very privately.
Ewe Make it - YOU ARE NUTS, TALENTED, and WAY TOO GENEROUS. Love the hand woven scarf. Is there an end to your talents?
Regional Item - gotta love the fridge magnet of Oklahoma with a thermometer. Since I live so far north, we're going to give that baby a work out! Every time I see the sand and that bull skull while I'm frozen solid, I'm going to smile.
and
You Pick - the cutest little lunch box (to carry my knitting incidentals) with stitch markers (who can EVER have enough...where do they all end up? With the other sock from the pair!?!?) and a tape measure. No kidding, I'm back down to one and I usually can't find it when I want it. THANK YOU.

I am happy and thankful.
Now I'm off to knit and watch a movie. the rest will wait.

THE HUSBAND PROJECT

I have completed my project for The Husband and here are the photos. I have to add I didn't make the chain link which is Marley's Ghost and is a FREEBIE on Knitty. I borrowed that from my friend who is in the photo. I didn't have enough yarn left after I knit and felted the cuff links.


It took forever to felt the hand cuffs and they need to be felted some more. I will do that when I visit my friend Paula again in her washing machine. They may end up to fit a doll after they are refelted as her machine really really felts well. A bad photo but a photo none-the-less of the before felting is going on my ravelry project page.

blocking grey shawl

blocking grey shawl
Originally uploaded by mlj1954ohio

I started my grey shawl in March and finished it the last day of May and finally blocked it on June 14 and unpinned it this past Saturday.

Zachariah loves helping me with my blocking and winding yarns. He is totally grand with my swift and winder. The next thing on our list to wind is the skein from Vigdis.

WWKIP Weekend, Take 2

Saturday non-WhoDuer Pharmaknits and I went to Knitter's Palette for WWKIP. We met a lot of folks, some that were new to us, and at one that used to be pretend and now she is real. Fortunately several of the new friends are now living in my computer with her. Don't you just love Ravelry? It was wonderful to spend a day going to new place with a friend and making new ones along the way. We are all looking forward to WWKIP next year and hopefully we will see the big city folks before then though. Maybe we can work out having more WhoDuers join in.
Unfortunately, this is the only picture that got taken yesterday afternoon, and since I am the one that took it, no picture of me to be had. Too bad Hubband is out of town or I would have had him go somewhere with me today and take my picture. Once again, here's hoping for next year!

WWKIP Weekend.

Dee was so kind as to have a swim meet this weekend, so kip was no big deal. However, I did meet a nice woman who was there for her grandkids as their parents couldn't attend. I like it when someone thinks I'm brilliant for doing the same old same ole stuff. I am knitting a pair of seafoam socks using some of the yarn I won a few months ago. I think I'm really going to like how they turn out. Can't wait to see how everyone else's wwkip went.

Hopefully, I'm off to bed so I can get at it tomorrow. After being gone all weekend, it'll be nice to figure exactly where I need to dive in to keep MY head above water!

Knit on!!!!