Friday, March 21, 2008

Spring

I had a fair while with not much knitting content, but somehow managed to 'attract' more yarn to my stash - twice on the same day once...shhh!

The diamond fantasy scarf is coming along slowly but surely. I've learned it is definitely not something I can take along with me to social situations or even do while watching tv. Mistakes happen. Nasty ones that involve tinking.

But, that being said, I'm not really using lifelines anymore. Really, I lost my small container of dental floss and couldn't put one in at the usual spot, the end the row repeats. So I just kept cruising. If I pay attention, counting the number of stitches between the repeat markers, I can fix anything two rows down. So now I'm doing a lot of counting and it's going fine.

I'm getting the itch to do some felting again. I wonder what? Probably not a bag because I've done quite a few of those, but I'll see.

Happy Easter.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Fibre Fest

I am the proud owner of more stash.

I found some:

lovely hand-dyed (many different blues) wool - 1200 metres.
shiny, smooth variegated green 100% rayon - 600 yds
muted maroon 100% cotton - 3200 yds

Heidi came with me, bringing baby Hadrian - he was the hit of the party, as always. We managed to spend five hours there. It wasn't a huge place, but there was lots for fibre addicts like us to look at. We each tried spinning on a wheel, then tried to come up with justification for having to buy one.

There were llamas and goats there to see but I would have preferred that they weren't. The smell was quite strong throughout the big room but most especially by the animal enclosures.

People were very friendly and willing to demonstrate or let us try things. Heidi and I had a great time.