The Brown Sheep Co is my favorite yarn manufacturer. I use their products as often as I can. If you haven’t tried their stuff I encourage you to give it a try.
A cool thing about them is that they are located in Nebraska, only on the other side of the state from me. Unfortunately it is about an 8 hour drive. I have an Aunt and two cousins in the little town they call home, so I’ve been there and I’ve had the tour. Awesome! If you ever find your self in western Nebraska check it out!
I recently found a new source for Brown Sheep products and I made a huge order. HUGE! Sixty-five balls of yarn huge! I am a scientific knitter based on Stephanie’s classification in Knitting Rules! So I have a plan for this yarn; all except one which is part of a birthday present, so I do have a plan for it (present) and I am going to give a pattern with it so I even have a plan for what she will do with it.
In case your curious about how I plan on using this 65 balls. The 6 balls of Lamb’s Pride Worsted are going to become Hubby’s hat and glittens. One ball of the Lamb’s Pride Superwash Worsted is going to become mittens for me and the other is part of the present I mentioned before. The 3 balls of Lamb’s Pride Bulky are going to be Hubby’s winter slippers. The 12 balls of Top of the Lamb Worsted are going to be my dream sweater (Breezy Cables, see my project page). The 9 balls of Nature Spun Worsted are going to be a sweater for Hubby. And the 33 balls of Wildfoot Luxury Sock yarn, those are going to be socks, lots of socks! I didn’t get any handpainted sock yarn, mostly solid colors, so I’ll be doing a lot of stripes and hopefully some argyles. I’d love to make argyle knee socks!!
Where is all of this yarn? It is at my mom’s house (6 hours away) waiting for me to come and pick it up. She could mail it, but I want her to hold on to it so I can get some of the other projects I have going on finished before I dive into it. We are going on vacation in 2 weeks and my folks house is our first stop. So before that trip I want to finish my sweater vest.
Here’s what I had this morning, I’m nearing the end of ball three. 
This pattern is supposed to be worked flat, back and forth, but as you can see I’m working it in the round. This is my first attempt at modifying a pattern (see Nessie), so I’m really hoping that all goes well, especially since I have a deadline about 3 weeks away. I’m nearing the point now where the pattern calls for the front to be divided for the different sides of the v neck, but this is supposed to happen 12 rows before the back is cast off for arm hole shaping. Since I working in the round and doing the pieces at the same time I don’t know when this arm hole shaping on the back will happen. Right now I see two options. One to put the front stitches on a holder and finish the back. Two is to calculate how long I think I want the back will be (usually pattern length plus and inch or two), and then figure out how the front will relate to this length and continue in the round until I reach the front division length and then incorporate this into my rounds. I’m leaning towards option 2, because I want to do as much as possible in the round (it is much faster), but I think the option 1 is probably more fool proof. Any suggestions on this process are welcome!
I mentioned yesterday that I’d finished my “pink scarf” for the challenge. Here’s a close up of the fabric, I really like this tweed look.
Since I’ve got the 33 balls of sock yarn waiting for me at my folks house I probably didn’t need this, but like I said it was 50% off and it is self striping, none of the Brown Sheep sock is self striping. The colors they had yesterday on sale were pretty basic, nothing too eye catching. Here’s what I got 
I think I’m going to go work on the vest for a while; see what kind of mess I can make out of it.
and because I just feel like sharing tonight (and because these are a couple of the very few existing good pictures of me) here are a couple of wedding pictues. I really had a hard time narrowing it down. The chapel was the 
