Lovely Yarn Escapes
My Adventures in Knitting, truly my Yarn-escape!
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Offline for Awhile
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: Tidelines
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: Autopilot Cowl
I finished my hat out of Chroma Worsted Yarn, a super soft single ply wool from Knitpicks. It's %70 Superwash Wool in a gorgeous pallette of color combos. The hat was very appreciated for the first night of camping at 32° and my LLBean sleeping bag (rated 40°) did well zipped up over my head with the hat and piles of fleece blankets. The next days got warmer.
And the trees were popped out from inland Maine to Vermont. The Adirondacks were so pretty. The new leaves glistening in sunlight. So, so appreciated after a long cold winter. It was a nice break.
After finishing up my hat I had a lot of Chroma Worsted left in colors Lake Front and Fathoms. I did a search of projects on Ravelry done in Chroma and found Autopilot. A really easy, rythmic knit that produces a gorgeous cowl.
Domknit's Autopilot
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: My Camping Slouchy Hat
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: Knits to do While Reading
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: Grab'n Go Triangular Shawl
A favorite knit designer of mine is Brome Fields. I love the simplicity of her designs and also that I feel she designs the things I would of wanted to design myself. She's also prolific. Having tons of hat, shrugs, shawls and other things designed. A lot of those designs are in Lion's Thick & Quick yarn which is inexpensive and fairly nice for a department store yarn; containing a bit of wool, but not too much to make itchy for sensitive skin types like me. I find you can always upscale a design by sourcing a pure Wool, or Wool and Alpaca blend. So when I got an email about Spring & Summer designs I jumped to check it out. I so love a tranquil, meditative knit for when I read; having learned to do both at the same time if simple (Hint: a Paperwhite Kindle is great for this in a cover that props up; but for hard back books check out Vermont Store's Leather Bookweight for a propped up book on your lap, or table while you knit).
The Shawl Grab'n Go, an asymmetrical shawl leapt out of her new Spring & Summer collection to me. It's knit up on 2 DK wt Yarns or 1 Worsted and she suggests using your stash yarn. I've been trying this past year to use up my stash yarn and to work to finish already started projects. One worsted wt yarn I had but I was on the verge of donating when we moved was called Jeans by Lion Brand. But I loved it, it was so pretty and soft, so I saved it and now I thought this would make a perfect light weight Summer shawl. I'm so in love with the results so far. Easy to memorize pattern and very light and soft and pretty.
What I'm Reading📚
I'm still reading the Joe Pickett series by CJ Box. Wow, what an adventure! I love Joe. Honest, to a fault yet friends with a guy who has some sort of secret operative background who obviously knows how to kill. Joe defends him a previous book and they become buddies. His friend Nat is also a Falconer that is teaching Joe's daughter the skill. By the 4th book Tophy Hunt the books get a bit more gritty dealing with animal mutilation (a true life unexplained phenomenon that occurred in the 1970s among cattle in the West). I'm nearing the end and the book is very good, some gruesome details not withstanding. I'll be onto the 5th book Out of Range today.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Wednesday's Yarns: Fluff Shawl
What I'm Reading Now 📚
I'm totally hooked on the C J Box Joe Pickett series. I'm nearly done with book 3 Winterkill and I'm fairly breathless from reading. The action at the end is non-stop and I seem to hit these seriously exciting, riveting spots just when I'm supposed to go to bed. What's a girl to do? Leave Joe leaping over snow in his snowmobile to rescue his soon-to-be adopted daughter? Sigh, getting enough sleep is seriously an issue with these books. They are that good. Thankfully Joe the Wyoming Forest Ranger has many adventures in many books. I even got my husband to start reading them. What fun, now we can even talk about Joe and his adventures together. One discussion revolved around did CJ Box create the mysterious endangered weasel-like creature in the first book or is it real? (Hint: The answer can be found in a web search in an author-inspired conversation. )
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