1.  What is your name?  Stephanie What is your quest?  to find the Grail..oh wait..wrong movie. Um… the quest for the perfect yarn. What is your favorite color? purple, no green, no purple..purple and green??

2.  When is your birthdate (year optional)? September 16 (same as Casey!)
3.  Do you have any special birthday traditions? We usually go out to eat
4.  What is your favorite birthday memory? Going to Hot Springs Arkansas and spending time in the old hotel and spa
5.  Any allergies we should know about? nope
6.  What crafts do you do – knit, crochet, spin, dye, bead, quilt, etc. etc. ? um.. yes and weaving, ok so I don’t quilt so much anymore, but I could
7.  Any sorts of fibers you particularly love or hate or are dying to work with? I’m not fond of mohair
8.  What weight of yarn do you prefer? sport or smaller, though I’m learning to love the larger yarns
9.  What are your favorite knitting accessories? (i.e.: stitch markers, row counters…) stitch markers
10.  Do you subscribe to any crafty magazines? no subscriptions, but I usually buy IK and Spin Off and if I can find it the UK Simply Knitting (or is that Creative Knitting?)
11.  What do collect aside from fiber-related things? live steel, medieval stuff, antiques, books
12.  Favorite candy, chocolate (dark, white, or milk), tea, coffee, other treats? I like candies like jelly belly’s and sour patch kids. For chocolate I like any kind. I do drink hot teas (I adore adagio.com) and I don’t drink coffee much
13.  Do you enjoy handmade soap and body products? yes please
14.  Are there any scents you love or hate? I can’t think of any
15.  What is your favorite: flavor, flower, letter, number, film, artist? flavor: grape flower: rose letter: um… no clue Film: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels or Formula 51 artist: Holbein (you meant artist like painter/scupltor right?)
16.  Anything we should *not* get for you? Um…can’t think of a thing
17.  Do you have a blog and or wishlist that are not linked on Ravery or listed in the GoogleDoc? I think my only wish list is on amazon
18.  Anything special you would like your partner to know? Hey partner!! This will be fun!!

I haven’t gotten to do this lately, but I actually have the time and the project to post a WIP Wednesday project.

I’ve been working on this for a while, but I picked it back up in the past week and have been working on it almost exclusively. This is the Woodland Shawl (Ravelry Link) by Nikol Lohr. (you can click the photos to make them larger)

I’m using yarn dyed by Faerielady, who is a super awesome dyer (I wish she could do more!) and I just love it. Since it’s blue, I’ve renamed the shawl the Raindrops shawl. I think the motifs look like raindrops.

They really do don’t they??

In Texas…I don’t think so. But I did finish a sweater recently. (finally..it’s about time)

I finished my Tilted Duster from Interweave Knits.

I think it turned out pretty nice. I’ll get a lot of use out of this this fall/winter. I’ll be student teaching this fall and sometimes those classrooms get chilly!

I got some really cool buttons for it at the LYS here.

They look like bone and I think really set off the sweater.