Clue #1

Earlier this week I started a newsletter. In the opening I mentioned how it was warm and sunny in Ancaster. Now I need to come up with something else. It is so cold today. And we're seeing some snow.

I thought that the Stephen West clue was coming out last night but it came out this morning. I'm still not at that point but the next two sections look interesting. Here is a link to the Ravelry Forum for the second clue. I've filtered it to just show pictures. If you look at post 197, the knitter has finished the second clue. This might entice you to join.

I didn't get very far this afternoon but did get a few rows knit tonight. This is the first clue so far. I figured that it was okay to show a picture now. If you are working on the shawl then you are at least this far on the first clue so I'm not ruining the surprise. Stephen's instructions are very well written. If you have any questions, he's probably answered it in the video he has for each clue.

I did a bit more stash diving tonight and found five different part balls of purple tosh merino light in a basket. I'm still convinced that there are more in my house - I'm going to do some digging on Sunday.

It's bed time or I won't make it to work in the morning. I totally lost track of time when I was seed stitching away.

Thanks for your help

Thanks for all your donations for the Ancaster Community Food Drive.

Beth picked up the food and money this morning to deliver it.

We had $840 and a lot of cans.

Our last customer of the day drew the names for our winners.

The winner of the gift basket is Sara T-D from Milton.

The winner of the Log Cabin Afghan kit is Tracey W from London.

Congratulations ladies.

Beth worked today sorting food and sent me this picture. They collected 102,500 pounds of food plus 15,000 pounds of potatoes.

So far the Marled Magic is fun. I'm going to include a picture of mine so far at the end of the post.

Many of you are afraid of the mystery aspect. I totally understand. If you are going to spent money and that many hours knitting something you want to make sure you're going to like it. This is a bit different. You don't have to purchase any yarn. You can make the whole shawl with stash. Think about it, use up stash and then you get to purchase new yarn :)

You are doubling your yarn and knitting on 5mm needles. This makes it go much quicker.

Here is a link to the Ravelry forum post with pictures of shawls so far. Stephen West writes a very good, easy to follow pattern. He includes videos links as well.

I'm mixing yarns from
-Mrs. Crosby
-Lorna's Laces
-madelinetosh
-Hedgehog
-Malabrigo
-Life in the Long Grass
-Prism
-Frabjous Fibers

One strand has been constant throughout this piece. The other strand changes every 2, 4 or 6 rows. I started out trying to grade my colours and then decided to reach in the bag and pull out a ball. That was my next colour.

Tomorrow I need to work some rows on my LITLG Find Your Fade. Once I'm finished the third colour of that shawl I can use the rest of the skein in this shawl.