Tour de Fleece

The Tour stars this Friday. My goal is to thin the stash a bit... there is some major herding issues in there, and hopefully I can reduce the amount of raw fleece to manageable proportions, rather than the .... 50+ lbs that I think I have. (It's so bad, I don't even want to know. )

I realize my goal is rather generic. There will be a plan later. I think.

Baby ... Surprise!

A friend of mine is due this coming September, and when I asked her what she'd like knitted, she told me a bunting. Hopefully, this fits the bill, because i just couldn't pass up this fantastic mod to the Baby Surprise Jacket. It's the Baby Surprise Snowsuit (ravelry link.)

It's knit up in the organic merino I recently got, which now, I must get more of. It will take all my will power to *not* roll in it when it gets here.

Cotton Plants

"There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie."
- John Mandeville, in 1350

More stitch markers!

I knit a lot of lace. Here's a close up of one of the new glass stitch markers in action. This is a cobweb weight "raw" silk in a tweed-ish grey, knit on size 2s.


Eventually it will be a large shawl with a garter stitch center... eventually. I started this shawl about a year ago, and garter being one of the most boring things (especially on size 2!) I couldn't keep going on it, but it made for great sick knitting. Now I'm about 15 rows into the border (which gets 8 stitches larger every other row) out of what seems like 8000. It might only be 42. Then there's the edging. I predict I'll be done before the end of 2020. :)

Coming soon!

Teeny tiny rainbow colored stitch markers. So far: pink, yellow, green, blue, pink-purple, cloudy purple, dark purple, light purple, black, grey, and clear.

I can't believe that three years ago, I was over at the county courthouse registering Twisted Fiber. It's been a crazy few years, but we keep growing, thanks to everyone's support.


After a longer than expected recovery, I'm finally back to dyeing. First up is a superwash fingering weight (on the thin side) seen here knit up on size 0s and 2s. (24 sts wide here) A lovely squishy yarn, quite nice to knit up. But then I'm usually a sucker for superwash merino.

Coming soon: more superwash merino, some organic merino worsted weight, and bamboo.

Thrifting

I rarely pick anything up at the local thrift store. They're only open Thursdays, and they're so tiny, that they keep what appears to be about 1/4 of their stock on the front steps. However, I checked them out this afternoon, and managed to pick up a loom (my 4th) for a whopping $2.

It is a Loomette King (if you couldn't tell from the picture!) and is placemat sized. It is similar in style to the 4" Weave-it that I have.

It came with a 14" needle and some patterns/instructions and some vintage non-shiny rayon yarn in yellow and green ... probably won't be using those.

Sheep!

I enjoyed making it, I used 4" DPNs (size 0000, tiny!) which worked. 6" might have been a little easier in the first row or two, but I don't think it would've been significantly easier.