Beth Nouveau: Under the weather.. but not out of commission

Hi everyone,

I've been fighting a sinus cold thing since yesterday which has left me dizzy and weak. Yesterday I slept till nearly 6 pm! Today I'm marginally better, and determined to be productive without pushing it :)

On Monday evening I *finally* got around to finishing a couple patterns and adding them to the website and to ravelry for FREE!!!!!. The patterns I have added are:

the foldover cropped cardigan shrug!

my furry rave gogo legwarmers

(as requested by a couple burners on ravelry)

my perfectly flared legwarmers

and last, but not least

my dropped stitch scarf

(a great stashbuster)

A bunch of people have already downloaded the shrug, and I am really excited to see how the projects turn out :) I proofread the pattern carefully and I'm crossing my fingers that there weren't any mistakes. I feel like the calculations might be confusing for some people. Pattern support is provided free at bethnouveau@gmail.com.

In other news, I attended Floyd Fandango this weekend in Floyd, VA and had a wonderful time. Sam Bush is an incredible bluegrass musician and I was one of the only hula hoopers there, so I didn't cringe every time I dropped my hoop :)

I don't think I mentioned this yet, but I purchased an LED hoop from trickconcepts and I ADORE it.

It's so bright!

This month I am working on vertical on the body hooping, the barrell roll, the vortex (which is supposedly easy but I struggle with it), and bringing the hoop up from the knees. Slowly but surely I will master them all :)