Winter is Coming, Knit Faster!!!

Winter suddenly showed up here east of the Shenandoah Mountains and if this isn't knitting weather I don't know what is! Which of course means I can't find half of my favorite fingerless glove pair meaning I need to knit up a back up pair as quickly as I can so my fingers don't turn into popsicles!!!

But it's not only knitting season, it's also shopping FOR knitters season as well! Little Knitty Bird has a couple of great events coming up in the next couple of weeks that we're hoping you'll stop on by for!

*Craft Fair: See us in person at the St. Timothy School Annual Craft Fair (13809 Poplar Tree Road Chantilly, VA 20151) from 9am- 3pm as we join a packed house of other hand crafters for a well attended event! I'm told that it's best to get there early before all the parking disappears! 

*Knitting Supplies Etsy Team Yarn Crawl: Missed your local fall yarn crawls? Here's your chance to stock up on yarn and knitting notions from a wonderful team of Etsy retailers November 22-26.. Use coupon code YARNCRAWL2014 for a variety of promotions and discounts from each of our featured sellers!
             -Featured Sellers
                            Calming Stitches
                            Wool N Love
                            Clovetree
                            Sarah's Spindle
                            Blue Room Pottery
                            Needlepoint N' More
                            Fairy Tale Knits
                            TOOH Industries
                            Crochet Gal
                            Little Knitty Bird



What do you have on the needles today? Knitting has kicked up into high gear for the season and I actually managed to finish a couple things for myself in the middle of gift knitting!

Airflow with Knitpicks Hawthorne. Totally worth it despite the miles of stockinette in fingering weight yarn!

Choo-Choo Toque A certain Littlest Owl has a slight obsession with trains and a shirt in these colors with a similar pattern, so of course this had to happen! It was also a blissfully quick knit!

Bofur's Fingerless Mitts Yes I know the ends aren't woven in yet! They will be eventually! These were a great stashbuster gift of some of my leftover Cascade Eco. 

Oak Trail Since the moment I got Botanical Knits I couldn't wait to cast on one of those lovely designs, so with holiday knitting looming I whet my appetite with this wonderful hat that has rarely left my head since I finished it! Also I promised to credit my husband, Big Bird, with the photo he graciously took after grabbing my hat off my head and running off to the edge of the woods, as you do of course.

And now for something completely different. An old friend of mine has this awesome job that involves a great deal of travel to Greenland and occasionally neighboring islands that she writes about here at Adventures of a Polarphile. On one of these trips she remembered my deep and abiding love for yarn shops everywhere as well as knitting traditions and sent me a surprise skein of yarn! I have no idea what I'm going to make with it yet, it's a very hardy yarn, so perhaps I might have an excuse to try double knitting with a silky soft yarn on the interior. Whatever it becomes, I'm excited!