Displayin' my stash with pride!

My mom works up at a charter school in Midland, and they've been bustin tail rearranging classrooms. While going through one of the "storage" classrooms, she ran across this shelved rack thing, and thought of me! Yay! So, I reassembled it this afternoon and started putting my stash on it. This is about half of the yarn I own, the rest is in the living room where we've been working on stuff for the store. I thought I had so much yarn, yet in this rack, it looks so skimpy... guess I'll just have to go buy more LOL!

A couple days ago, Michael informed me that his granny wanted to learn to crochet. I love teaching people to crochet, but there's an extra incentive in it for me... his granny knows how to knit... so heck yeah I'll show her how to crochet, if she'll teach me the basics of knitting. I tried knitting once... bought a pack of needles on clearance at Hobby Lobby, sat down with an instructional video by Threadbanger... and well... I got the basic concept down, but my stitches are HORRIBLY loose... the weird thing is, I knitted wayyyy too loosely, and my mom is always riding my butt over crocheting too tightly LOL! Here's a picture of my attempt at knitting.

Purty scary, huh? Oh well, eventually I'll get better... hopefully... there are sooo many gorgeous knitting patterns I would love to try, but don't feel like translating to crochet... yeah, I'm lazy like that :P

Also, I'm thinking about doing a giveaway on here, but I'm just not sure what to use as a prize... the giveaway winner would be picked at random from the comments field of the giveaway post. Please let me know what ya'll would like to have a chance at winning. I can whip up a scarf, plushie, a pair of handwarmers, or cowl. Lemme know what ya'll think!