Deluxe Yarns Blog

What a hectic month. Hot August Nights has come and gone, school has stated;Burning Man has come and gone also, what else; Rib Cook Off just finished. Are we looking forward to the Balloon Races and Air Races? Ahuh! not looking forward to Street Vibrations. These are the goings ons that leads to !!yes!! Knitting weather.
Those of you who only knit in the winter need to get started on all your holiday gifts. I, myself, knit year round and still try to scrunch.
Got started knitting my Christmas presents and making samples for my LYS; Had to stop briefly to join the Ravelmpics; two weeks of intense knitting and crocheting.
As you may or may not know the month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s a subject which hits close to many of us; a close friend, family member and even some of the people we meet through knitting or crocheting. Rosemary Chapman, the designer of The “Booby Sock” has a kit out through Skacel Collections. The Kit includes one limited edition Pink Trekking XXL yarn,"Booby Sock” pattern and beads, which comes in a clear drawstring plastic bag. This yarn was dyed especially for that purpose. Skacel is donate proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Research. So, lets knit for the cure.

Oh darn, as many of you know, the empty lot that we use for parking has been taken over by construction as a drop off for their supplies–redoing the sewers in the neighborhood. Rats! puts a kink in the parking situation; no fret, there is still some parking.
Talk about knitting n’ ripping, it seems for every 3 or 4 rows I knit, I rip twice as much. This project is not growing at all.

For those of you in the Reno area, the shops on Vassar is planning a side-walk-sale which will be broadcast on channel 2; I believe should be Sept. 20,21.
Something new is sweeping about, “dreadlock wrapping” yes and they are using yarns to do this hair artwork. Seems to have been a big thing at Burning Man. It’s the biggest thing since tiedye. Go figure!!

WOW!!! what a day! Well we went on our Tahoe Luncheon Cruise on the MS Dixie ll. There were 31 in the group. If you’ve never taken that cruise it’s a must. Well of course, we took our knitting. It was a Knit n’ Rip Group. Most of us were knitting socks and some knitting other things. there was also a birthday person with us and of course, we sang the B’day song. We have quite a diverse group and that makes us very SPECIAL!!!

Alright all you bobby socks hoppers, hot rodders, poodle skirt, ponytail and vaseline slick back hair; it’s HOT AUGUST NIGHTS dress up time. I’m going to look like Lucy with curlers in my hair. What are you dressing up as. Where I lived, which is back East, I don’t remember doing all that stuff–hey I was a City Girl.

On to other things, my garden is doing well have 1 huge bell pepper, some tomatoes, itty bitty eggplants no zucchinis yet. I will still attempt to grow purple potatoes–the system my honey told me to use did not work; only stunk up the kitchen. I should have done it my way, just stick it in the dirt and go for it.

Crumb bunnies!! I am still working on my spare bedroom. Now I have to paint it. Got the paint from my daughter-in-law–she had extra; don’t care what color it was free. When I finally get it all done, I will share.
OK, HERE ARE PICTURES FROM THE CRUISE; These are a few of the people in our group–can’t put everyone. Oh, for those of you who haven’t seen Lake Tahoe, the water is just like the ocean, blue-green and clear and tall pine trees surrounding it.

Tall majestic pine trees surrounds the lake. The haze you see in the background is smoke from the California fires.

Clear ocean in the middle of the desert

An Island in the middle of the lake with a house which was built in the 1920’s

How did these three get into the picture lol

Wow, where has the time gone! I was about to write my Rodeo experience and we’re already into July. Ok so I am not much of Hee Hawing but we had free invite to the Reno Rodeo, can’t pass up free. It was VIP type; food, drinks and an escort to where we were suppose to sit. Food was great–furnished by Pinocchio. We had great seats right up front couldn’t ask for anything better. Will be sharing some of the pictures taken.
This has been the second time I went to the Rodeo.
RODEO PICS:

Update on my efforts on cleaning up my spare bedroom from all that stash…hahaha!! getting there. Now, I have decided to paint the room, boy what I’m getting myself into.
Next update, finally planted my garden, tomato, bell peppers, eggplant,zucchini. Also, went to the farmers market and got some purple potato, I am getting them started then put them into the ground hopefully will have home grown potatoes.

I have started a Ravelry group with the same name as our Meet-Up name–Knit n’ Rip for those of you who are members of both groups please check us out.
We are coming up on our trip, Knitting on Lake Tahoe lunch cruise

It has been a while since I was last on this blog. Some wonderful things have happened. Had a B’day last month and got some nice gifts from my good knitting friends. I will share one of the gifts with you all. It is a ceramic sheep which has become the shop mascot. Also got a gift certificate for gardening supplies.

Couple of weeks ago, I got all geared up to garden and while I was cleaning the planter in fron to the house, I interrupted a quail nest so needless to say I did zero gardening.

This week (on wednesday) several of the shops where I am did a wine stroll–it was called Vino & Vittles on Vassar Street. I turned out great; didn’t know wine could go so fast. I am sure there were several bottles between us. It was a good way to mingle with the public and the other shops.

Our own Knit n’ Rip Tahoe Lunch Cruise is coming up soon and that should be lots of fun. This Saturday a group of Raverly Knitters and crocheters are meeting in public for some fun and awareness.

You know how we all have stash of yarn in our spare bedroom, well I was tackling that room trying to organize it; and oh boy, what a mess. I found things that I totally forgot about. The room looks like a tornado hit, well I have my work cut out for me.

On Saturday, June 14th was the World Wide Knit in Public and by golly I was at Meadowood Mall at 10 am knitting with some of our local knitters and crocheters, we even had our special twins there. I stayed there till 12:30 since I had to open shop. It was lots of fun.

What a week! Not only it went by fast but I had so much to do I missed the posting of the Crazy Socks Contest winners. Then when I tried to get it on–I had a puter snaffoo,keyboard was not cooperating. My honey fixed it for me.
Today is such a beautiful day; right now it’s 70 degrees but not for long. We are going to have a cold spell next week.

CRAZY SOCKS CONTEST
And the Winners are….

First Prize:For Craziest looking colors

Second Prize:Color arrangements

Third Prize:Funky Pattern

Fourth Prize:Ugliest crazy socks

We would like to thank all those who participated in our contest.