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I love those knit/purl sock patterns. I made a pair of Cinder Block socks for Oscar a few years back, perfect summer knitting.
Country Roads
Soundtrack today . . . (This one is from a John Denver tribute album that is totally worth a listen!) Earlier in July, when I was up north for a week at our cottage, I started to knit a pair of socks for my mom. She had picked out the yarn (Lorna's Laces Solemate*) and I picked out the patter...
I am so glad I have been popping in regularly to check your blog. I nabbed my copy immediately, before I finished reading the first paragraph of your post.
I am pleased and proud to help keep you out there gathering a body of knowledge whose affects will stretch into the future.
Yay!!!
Dreaming of Shetland launches!
In February, friends came up with an amazing and unexpected idea to help me do the next phase of research into sheep and wool, which involves a study of Shetland sheep and their fleeces. Shetlands are really complex, even controversial, and consideration of their development and current situatio...
Wonderful news!!!
About the Future
Yesterday, I had my 6-month oncology check up. All good. So good, in fact, that I have "graduated." Now I only have to go in for oncology check ups once a year. A few years ago, I wondered about tomorrow. I'm trusting it again. (At least as much as anyone can!)
Oh yes please! Toss my hat in the ring, it looks like a fascinating book :-}
Ann Kingstone's "Born and Bred" Yorkshire-based designs
Those of you who, like me, enjoy books on the order of Clara Parkes' The Knitter's Book of Wool and Sue Blacker's Pure Wool: A Guide to Using Single-Breed Yarns have a new collection to check out: Ann Kingstone's Born & Bred: Yorkshire Sheep, Yorkshire Style (the extra links go to Ann's other co...
Thanks for the lovely introduction, just enough to entice me!
I too love learning all the nooks and crannies of textile art. If not all, than as many as I can fit in to one lifetime :-}
A workshop on Peruvian knitting, mostly of puntas!
Last weekend I took two textile workshops. This is remarkable. Mine is one of those lives where if I have time for a workshop, I don't have the money to do it; and if I have the money, I don't have the time or I'm in the wrong part of the world. I've been at more festivals and events than I can ...
I am breathing in, imagining I can smell them. I grew up out in the country, and some of my favorite scents are related to livestock (not pigs particularly but sheep and bovines.) I might buy some raw yak fiber just to experience that scent, too. I used to walk a mile out of my way in Japan so I could pass by some closed gates that hid cows, so I could breath the scent of home.
I love yaks (and their fiber)
Yesterday I had the great good fortune of visiting Carl and Eileen Koop (and their yaks) at Bijou Basin Ranch. It was a 263.5-mile round trip and worth every bit of the journey. Here's part of why: The yaks charmed me completely. Backing up just a bit, here's a sign along the last bit of pave...
Although my heart would prefer to spin using only my own muscles, circumstances make an electric wheel the best choice for me. It is a fairly steep learning curve going from a hand spindle to an electric machine, but I think will be worth it.
Reading your blog (and the F&F Sourcebook) have fanned my interest in rare wools and I think the best way to explore them is via spinning and perhaps using them as part of collage-type artwork next year. Thanks for the inspiration Deb :-}
The 30th Spin-Off Autumn Retreat
Last week I took a quick trip to Granlibakken, in Tahoe City, California, to participate in a few days of the 30th Spin-Off Autumn Retreat, best known as SOAR. This post will consist mostly of a series of not-too-great but definitely on-the-scene photos, with captions. SOAR began because Linda L...
I would say you raised a very high-fiber (and loving) harvest :-}
High Park Fire, 10: Gardening, such as it's been this year
This has not been a great year for gardening. Our raised beds got built a few years ago. We didn't have the repeated hailstorms pounding the tomato plants into green pulp before they had a chance to get started. There's been a drought, but the water's been applied regularly, if judiciously (none...
Lovely sweater! I would have loved that class, but (although tons closer than others you have taught) was a bit outside my comfort range :-}
I just received shipment on my new electric spinning machine, built by friend Teri (Dreamspinner). I have a lot to learn, but that is exciting!
3Ls, 3Cs, and a Cormo sweater
Last weekend I was at The Spinning Loft in Michigan teaching a two-day workshop called 3Ls and 3Cs. With such a cryptic title (although yes, there was a description of the class), I was delighted to find a room filled to capacity with wonderful folks. We couldn't have fit in one more. Fortunatel...
Lovely post, thank you Jaala!
I enjoy learning about the nuts and bolts of creating.
And the yarn is gorgeous.
I especially like that you used so many textures in your swatch, very informative.
Yarn Crawl #1--Light Brown Hare
Today's the first in a blog series I've been excited to prepare and now to share--the Yarn Crawl! As editor of Knitcircus, I'm always on the lookout for gorgeous yarns for our designers and readers and have decided to do an ongoing investigation with you into some of the best independe...
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