Habs vs Sabres

Kovy's second goal - he scored two goals and was named 1st star. The other guys were pretty good too :)







Last night, DH & I got to see a game at the Bell Centre. Unfortunately, we lost in the shootout, but it was a good game. The excitement nearly killed me. It was my first "live" game, and it was an experience I'll never forget.

The Flower

This is a picture of a new colourway I came up with last weekend - The Flower, in honour of Guy Lafleur. I had taken a couple of pictures the evening I put the yarn up in my shop, but wasn't satisfied with how the colours came out, so took this pic the next evening. But before I could get the pic posted, the yarn had sold. Along with a hank of Le Gros Bill and a set of stitch markers. I am gobsmacked, I can barely keep up. I've got two yarns and a set of markers left in the shop. Thankfully some new yarns arrived this week, so I'll be working on getting those dyed up and I am hoping my bead order comes today so I can get more markers made.

Meanwhile, I have to work on a letter to the Kid's Foundation to send along with my first cheque, which I'm estimating will be around $100. Which gobsmacks me even more. When I started this thing and was figuring out how I would handle passing the money along, I thought I would do it once a month, or maybe two at most, depending on whether or not I sold anything. And in less that three weeks, I've sold eight yarns and two sets of markers. I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I'm gonna keep on saying it. Knitters are awesome people.

Great Big Show

Last night we went to see Great Big Sea at the Metropolis. Have wanted to see them for ages because I figured they would be a fun band to see live.
I had no idea. I have never seen a bunch of people having more fun in my life. The crowd was ecstatically singing along, bouncing up & down and having a grand old time, and the band was obviously loving it. They had the fans singing a variety of songs including "I'm Gonna Be" by The Proclaimers and "Bohemian Rhapsody".


I had a hard time because we couldn't get any seats so had to stand and I foolishly wore a new pair of sexy boots that had my feet screaming in agony by the end of the night. It was, however, totally worth it.

Wow

Got home from work today, checked my etsy shop and two more yarns sold. I opened the shop eight days ago and I've sold five yarns. That is way more than I was expecting. I'm seriously excited about this. Also mildly panicked because I only have three yarns left in the shop! Waiting for supplies to come in and will dye more yarn as fast as I can. I'm also doing Habs stitch markers, once I figure out exactly how to do them. I've asked for help from the people over at the Go Habs Go! group on ravelry on how I should go about the stitch markers.
Meanwhile, I'm planning on posting details on here about how I'm getting the money to the Kid's Foundation and will set something up to show a running total of the money collected. Just need to find the time...

Great Vintage Hockey Sweater

There's a KAL at the Puck This! group over on Ravelry for vintage-style hockey sweaters. Some marvelous ones to be seen, more in progress. I started planning mine during the All-Star Weekend. After agonizing over yarn choices, I settled on Louet Riverstone in the light worsted weight, and made the decision to dye the yarn myself, which I'm still not entirely sure was a good idea. It's lovely kettle dyed semi-solid yarn, but did I really want that effect?
Anyhoo, it's started and I'm going with it.

Out with Daughter Dearest

Daughter dearest and I went on an unplanned outing yesterday. We met at St. Henri metro and headed to the Ariadne yarn shop so I could get a much needed umbrella swift and ball winder. Alas, they had no ball winders left, but I did get the swift: Will keep a lookout for the ball winder, I'm sure one will turn up somewhere. It will be such a relief to not have to do winding and hanking of yarns by hand anymore, and I'm sure DH will be pleased since I tend to get a little vocal when I'm angry. Which often happens when the damn yarn gets in a tangle. Daughter dearest & I went downtown next and I bought her a couple early birthday gifties. We went past a sports shop and they had women's Habs jerseys, on SALE!!
I've ordered more sock yarns and dyes. Hopefully they'll start coming in next week so I can dye up some more next weekend. I've only got five yarns in the shop, not enough. Stitch marker supplies have started arriving, so I'm expecting to start making up some Go Habs Go sets as well.
I am so pleased at how well I've done so far, three hanks of yarn gone within a week. I would've been happy if one sold. Won't be long and I'll be sending off the first check to the Kid's Foundation.
Meanwhile, renovations to the living room are in progress. Got through a lot of crap, purging and sorting, don't know how I've managed to accumulate so many dust collectors. At least I got through everything, and now I'm trying to get a handle on all the yarn-related stuff. Seriously need to get organized. With everything I've got going on, I can't afford to waste time looking for stuff.
Meanwhile back at the Habs, they're playing the Devils tonight and I suppose we shall see what we shall see. Brisebois will be playing his 1000th game (yay!) and Halak will be back in the net instead of Cookies Price. As much as I love Cookies, I'll be glad to see Halak back. As for Kovy, he showed up for practice yesterday but was sent home, still not feeling well. Supposed to be evaluated this morning, but there has been no word yet on whether or not he's playing. And we sure as shit could use him against the formidable Brodeur, he'll be hard to score against.

Whee!

Isn't this nice, a blog! Don't know what the hell I'll be yakking about, guess we'll just have to wait and see, eh?

This seems like a good idea, a place where I can talk about my adventures in dyeing, knitting, and whatever else I come up with. I started an etsy shop last weekend at brigitbeast.etsy.com where I'm selling yarn inspired by players for the Montreal Canadiens, past and present. I only had eight yarns listed and have already sold three. It's all so exciting, after much mulling it over, I decided to hand over all the profit on the yarn to the Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation. What an adventure this is turning out to be.

There's a hockey game going on as I type, Habs vs. Islanders and the score is tied at 1. My Kovy, alas, is not playing tonight, he has been laid low by this flu bug that seems to be plaguing the team. Have these people not gotten their flu shots?