yarn news

I have been dyeing like crazy the last couple of week, to get ready for three fiber festivals that are coming up one after the other. The first one is next weekend, on the Washington County fairgrounds, the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival. Last year was a blast!


I'll give you a few snapshots of some new colorways, and others that you may have seen before. I've put some of them in my etsy store, as well. If you go and read the introduction on the shop's front page, you will notice an announcement. :)


All skeins pictured here are watercolors II sock yarn. It's 400 yards of superwash merino fingering weight, and I love dyeing it...and knitting with it....wish there were more hours in the day!

jaded

silver lining

jaded; silver lining; navy

chai

chai; memories of summer; sunny yellow; terracotta

sweet plum; suede; hot pink

deep forest; ink; avocado

That's it for this little entry today!

I hope you are all doing well.

lace on the brain

It must have been the anticipation of THIS arriving in the mail for me that my mind has been on the subject of lace knitting lately.


I made this Foliage hat for my sister. (True confession: I started it before the Citron shawl. First I would alternate: do one repeat on the hat, do one section on the shawl. Then it was just one more section on the shawl. The shawl won.) I finally finished the hat a couple of days ago. This is very soft Queensland Super Aussie Merino worsted.

Then I have the terrible, terrible task of test knitting a new yarn I dyed before my surgery. It's an as yet unnamed blend of 50% merino, 50% silk fingering weight that is simply divine to knit with.

I started on a Prairie Rose shawl from the Knitter's Book of Wool.

I liked the pattern well enough. In fact, it's gorgeous. It was kicking my butt a little, since it's been a while that I've made anything more complicated. Maybe it was my poor post-surgery brain that just couldn't handle it. (Ask me another time what really stupid things I've done in the last two weeks.)

But I decided that the yarn and the pattern were fighting each other....the yarn was too busy for the pattern, the pattern too intricate for the yarn. I frogged it,

and started a Twilight scarf from the book A Fine Fleece.

Better, no?

Tomorrow, we talk about what's inside the book. ;)