Yarnival!!!

Welcome to April 2008's edition of Yarnival.

A nticipation
P rojects
R eality
I nforming
L ace

Anticipation

Shelly signed up a few months ago for the Blue Moon Fiber's Rockin' Sock Club. What happened when she finally received the postal slip saying that her first package had arrived? Read her post to see what difficulties she had getting the parcel!

Projects

Linda has finished some Torotos. What are they? Check out her blog.

Need a bit of shaping? With negative and positive ease Not Hip ends up with an hourglass figure.

Still snow on the ground? There is one way to get spring flowers. Rhonda finished her Tulips for Women.

No sunshine yet? See how Monika brought some sunshine into her life.

Deb gives a Juno to her finished Cables and Os. Will she be tempted to knit another one?

If yarn doesn't touch your stash, does it exist? Terhi was able to crochet something she wanted, aided by some helpful people.

Reality

It wasn't New Year's Eve but Michaele had a few glasses of wine, drew up a list of things she wanted to knit and even ordered most of the yarn too. But what about reality? Does a summer baby need a bobbled hat and shorts from 100% wool?

Informing

Do you need matching buttons for your projects? Sarah shows us how to crochet some and loops to go with them.

Lucy lost a lot of weight and wanted to make her unfinished kauni cardigan smaller. Would you dare to cut pieces off of it?

You never know who's reading your blog. Who was it who read about Natalie's broken needle? Natalie has done us a service by contacting several needle manufactures to see what their replacement needle policies are.

Have you seen a pullover pattern you'd like to knit but wish it were a cardigan? Pamela not only tells us how to change the pattern but how she made Wicked into a cardigan.

Lace

Trish started her lace cardigan 2 years ago. Besides problems with the pattern and the yarn splitting, in the middle of everything she decides to change it from a large to a medium . How does she do it?

Nichole finished and blocked a lovely lace shawl destined to be a gift the next day. Then she found two dropped stitches. Did she rip back and reknit it?

Laurie tends not to use lifelines but she did with this shawl because she didn't want to start over again. It was worth the effort, wasn't it?

Thanks for reading this issue of Yarnival. Please send submissions for future editions on the submission form.

Yarnival: Call For Submissions

Well it sure has been awhile. I even had to check what my password was (I guess my old age is showing! or is it that I have too many passwords?). I should get around to making a proper header before hosting April's Yarnival Carnival.

Yarnival, originated by Eve at The Needle Exchange is hosted once a month by different guest editors. It has posts that are submitted by bloggers and can have anything to do with yarn and fibre that has happened in the past month or so. You can visit new or familiar blogs and maybe learn a few things along the way as you visit each entry.

Please submit the blog post you would like featured by April 12th (date changed) for a publishing date of April 15th. Any blog posts, funny or sad, inspirational or instructional, or anything you would like us to know about your knitting/yarn world should be submitted to me on the Yarnival Carnival submission form at http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_417.html. Show us your work and your blog!