New Discovery: Patternfish and Sea Lettuce

Today, while reading Lucy Neatby's blog, I discovered a great new pattern, Sea Lettuce Scarf, that can be knit from sock yarn. I am always on the look out for these type of patterns because I believe that sock yarn (fingering weight) is not just for socks.

I faved the pattern on Ravelry and pulled it up later to learn more about it. It looks like one that will make a great travel knit so I went to buy it through the download link. That link took me to a great pattern site called Patternfish.

This is an online store where you can buy or sell your designs for knitting or crochet patterns as customized PDF downloads. They offer a little bit of everything from new, old, indie, corporate, vintage, modern, classic, and offbeat, and it comes from all over the world. Currently there are 4545 patterns from the United States, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Ireland, France, and Turkey.

It was an easy transaction using PayPal and the PDFs look professional. I think this will be a great resource for patterns. To make it easy for you to find the site in the future, I am featuring it on my blog links to the left.

I hope everyone has fun discoveries in their life!

April: Days to Celebrate!

Lucy Neatby's birthday on April 4th, I think that is big and she should be celebrating for at least the whole month. Happy Birthday, Lucy!

Of course, we had April Fool's Day, for me it came and went quickly with no ill pranks. It was followed quickly by National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Now, there is a comfort sandwich I can get behind. I wonder when National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day is?

Hoppy bunnies will celebrate Easter on April 12th this year. That is the moving holiday discussed earlier in this blog. After that National Pecan Day will be on April 14th, followed by National Cheese Ball Day on April 17th and Garlic Day on the 19th. I think I see a pattern here.

Then we skip along through Earth Day on the 22nd and sharing that day is National Jelly Bean Day. Tree and shrubs are celebrated on the 24th - Arbor Day. It is also National Pig-in-a-Blanket Day.

Rounding out this month, that seems to be mostly about food, is National Pretzel Day on the 26th and National Shrimp Scampi Day.

The month is also known as National Kite and Frog Month.

I hope you find a way to celebrate the days of this first full month of Spring!

Note: Days brought to you by hoops&yoyo (Hallmark) since my apartment complex failed to deliver their monthly newsletter to my door.