Mosaic Knitting, Uncommon Dragons Scarf 2, and prepping for summer

First, the exciting news. Yesterday I received my first Daily Deviation over on Deviantart for my Rise from the Ashes!
http://aetherfang.deviantart.com/art/Rise-from-the-Ashes-Phoenix-Shawl-445104128

Original Rise from the Ashes Shawl

I just started playing around with Mosaic knitting to try and bring some new patterns that aren't Double-knit into my repertoire. I'll probably have a scarf pattern out in July!

I've started diving into my summer pattern plans. There's a big secret project, but along with that I'm planning an MKAL for August that will be a choose-your-own-dragon design scarf. More details once I've got the scarves mapped out, but it's going to be a neat project!

Not too much else going on this week, lots of rain so I'm sticking inside! But hey, 17 sprouts of arugula for my garden as of yesterday, so at least my seedlings are starting out well.

Of being sick and having way too many patterns to test knit

So, I managed to go and catch the plague sometime during the yarn shop hop this weekend. I've been down a fair amount of this weekend without being able to breathe, and now we're getting to a coughing stage. Hopefully this goes away soon so I can be at 100% again!

However, the yarn shop hop was wonderful! I had a great time meeting new people and picking out some great yarn for upcoming test knits.

The whole group!

Ultra Pima in Fingering Weight for a summer scarf

Kureyon Sock for an upcoming scarf pattern. This stuff is next to impossible to find in the US!

Malabrigo Finito in Glitter. This gets to go with some Finito in Black that I picked up last week for a matching hat with the Cloud Dragon Scarf. So much softness...

My only discovery from the second day of the Shop Hop, 5 skeins of Mal Worsted in Cypress colorway and one skein of Mal Chunky in Marron Oscuro. The Worsted is earmarked for a sweater.

Three skeins of Mal Chunky in Marron Oscuro and one skein of Mal Chunky in Beige. These are all going to be a wolf hat with earflaps.

And then there's this. I have been hunting for Kauni for so long! I finally found some in the colorway I wanted to go with some Malabrigo Arroyo in natural. I may dye the natural so that it's either a dark blue or black. These are being reserved for a shawl pattern I'm in the process of designing!

I've got three projects on the needles: a second knit of the Rise from the Ashes Phoenix Shawl in Malabrigo Sock, Skoll's scarf in Cascade Heritage Silk, and the Elder Dragon scarf in Dream in Color Smooshy with Cashmere. The Elder Dragon Scarf is the second scarf in the Uncommon Dragons series, and the pattern should be released by the end of the week so long as I don't lose any more days to being sick!

Elder Illusion Dragon in Glorious Merino/Cashmere blend. Better pictures to come!

MiniCon is coming up this weekend. Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend, but I will be putting some prints and fiber arts up for auction and sale.

The Metallic Photo Paper is amazing. You have to see it in person.

I'll be streaming tonight around 7 pm, Tuesday night at 7, and Friday night at 7, and possibly Saturday this week along with the normal Sunday afternoon stream. I may also have a few daytime streams during the week, follow @TaniaRichter on Twitter or AetherDragon on Tumblr.

I think that's all for now, expect some more updates soon!