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SSK Door Prize

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One really cool feature of SSK is the simply astronomical number of door prizes that the KnitGirllls are able to source. I’m talking like close to 50 or 60. You win tickets, earn tickets and get some tickets for just attending. And then you can put those into drawing for prizes and I won one!

This was one of the bigger grand prizes. It is a foldie travel bag with two yarn baby skeins of CeCe’s Wool. That is a new to me yarn brand and boy howdie is that a lot of sock yarn! The color is “Over The Raindow” and it’s 2,240 yards of fingering weight sock yarn. It’s also 100% merino. Enough that I can knit a full Rachelle sized sweater!

I am super grateful for winning a prize and I really want to find a sweater to knit but less enthused about a sweater on US 2s or 3s, lol.

What should I knit?

SSK Stitch Markers

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I realized some of the things you couldn’t see in my wool pig pile from SSK were the stitch markers I grabbed to add to my collections and a few for gifts.

I am more and more a fan of lobster clips for a variety of reasons. The princess ones will be for PB and the Mario ones will be for Jellybean to play with. The rest are going into my projects bags.

Ooh, and the earrings are definitely going to be a staple in my business casual work rotation!

SSK Stickers

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Several of the vendors are SSK also had some vinyl stickers as well as a sticker trade at the SSK check in table. I managed to grab a few.

I grabbed the ADHD and rainbow heart for my mom friend Cindy. They will make great random friend gifts. And the rest I think will be for my collection. I especially liked the “Don’t Confuse Motion with Progress” sticker.

I have been adding stickers to my paper planner each month to add humor, color or cheer to my never ending schedule and to-dos. I think August will be my Superhero yarn ball month…

Happy Knitting!!

Finished English Rose in Another Class

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I finished my English Rose hat in my third and final class for SSK. This class was Bums and Bellies again by Kim McBrien Evans.

I had made some progress in sit and knit groups but the decreases were finished in the class. This had landed in that 75 gram weight so I used 3/4 of the skein. I did notice a unique feature of this skein was a line of dark pink that circled the hat in a spiral. I am now at hat seven so I am close to my gift goal.

The class was very good. I was able to get help with some tricky measurements and get some tips on how to change my sweaters to fit my silhouette. It will require a lot of math on my part and we didn’t get into that depth in the class. So there is homework I need to do but my brain was too full of information get that done in the moment.

Happy Knitting!!

SSK Fiber Mini Swap

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I’ve been home from Super Summer Knitogether (SSK) for several days now and I have SO MUCH to share. For my own sanity I’m going to break all the goodness into a blog series.

I drove 10 hours to Nashville TN and made registration just in time for opening ceremony and the fiber mini swap. This is where you bring fiber and break into minis and make fiber soup. Then you leave with as many ounces as you came with…..just in chaos style.

The pool was hard to mix and I definitely got some of the same braids but I was very happy with the colors I received. Of course I have zero clue what fiber content is but that is okay. I am just looking forward to this spinning!