SP 11 Contest

Here are my answers to the latest SP 11 Contest that my Hostess is holding. I'm supposed to list my favorites:

Actor - Hmm.... so many I like. I'll see pretty much anything with Brad Pitt in it. Is that Cliche?
Actress - I love Reese Witherspoon lately :-)
Animal - Turtle
Band - Does Indigo Girls count?
Book - The Harry Potter Series
Bubble Bath - Anything vanilla scented
Candy - Peanut Butter cups
Color - Purple
Flower - Sunflowers
Food - Eggplant
Lip Balm - I don't wear lip balm
Lotion - don't use anything
Movie - Ocean's 11
Song - Power of Two by the Indigo Girls
TV Show - Heros
Vacation Spot - New Hampshire

And that's that.

Worst Thing I Ever Knit

For a SP11 Contest I'm supposed to post about the worst thing I ever knit. This was a hard one. There were some pretty craptacular projects I did when I first started knitting. After thinking long and hard about it I decided that this shawl was the worst thing I ever knit. I think it was the first project I made after plain garter stitch scarves. When you see it from this distance it doesn't look THAT bad: But then when you catch site of this corner you see all the ends sticking out. I had no clue how to weave in ends.

And on this corner too. And the yarn didn't hold up at all:
This is a pattern that I got off the Lion Brand web site & I used Lion Brand Homespun. I LOVED this yarn when I first started knitting & made like a gazillion scarves with it. This was clearly before I became a yarn snob! Soon I realized that the yarn grows substantially with wear. And it pretty much shreads. I did wear this maybe twice before the ends popped out & it grew exponentially in size. Then I let my son use it as a throw blanket for a while, b/c really, what little boy doesn't need a lace blanket? This now lives in a box in the corner of my closet and rarely sees the light of day. Georgie seemed to like it when I took it out for the photo shoot and insisted on having his picture taken with the hideous shawl!

Flashing my Stash

I'm flashing my stash for a contest for my SP11 group. My stash doesn't live in just one place.....

I have some yarn in bags on a dining room chair:

There's the bag I bring to football/cheering practice with me:

There's cotton under the coffee table in plastic bins:

And the majority of my stash lives in these bins, which live under my bed:

Shall we see what's in them?

There's more throughout the house, but I didn't bother to photograph it all!!