Thanks, Jaya! ?Nice shawl, but nobody I know wears them. ?Weird, huh. ?I¡¯ll probably either do a scarf and/or granny squares for a throw.?
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On Aug 23, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
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Lovely shawl, Amy!
Connie, that looks lovely. Last year I found some gradients at JoAnns for a couple of bucks each and made a bunch of plain weave scarves on my RHL. Some were given away as gifts and people loved them. The rest are in the gift pile.?
But I knit a Nuvem with a similar gradient (nice yarn) that I won at Meg Swansen's Knitting Camp one year. I liked it a lot but a cousin fell in love with it and it is hers now.
I spun a ton of stuff for the TdF on the original dates and am going to spin in the 2.0 which coincides with the rescheduled Tour de France. I decided I am going to finish up some partially finished project. I thought I'd make a sweater from the TdF spin but now I'm not very enthusiastic about it. But I am almost done with a sweater that has a corespun handspun yoke and a couple of stripes of a different corespun yarn on the bottom and cuffs. The rest of the sweater is Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran Tweed. It has been my Zoom knitting.?
I just wound a warp for a linen/silk and a mystery boucl¨¦ yarn scarf. The boucl¨¦ was in the guild swap and no one wanted it so I took it. It is very pretty but probably a synthetic or tencel. Very shiny.?
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:35 PM Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <
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Not my cup of tea but yea you!
On the opposite end of the spectrum, here¡¯s my pandemic knitting: the first border of the Heirloom Knitting Jewel Long Shawl, from Colourmart 2/48 cash silk. I¡¯m on the second border¡¯s edging and it¡¯s going a bit faster now. I wish I was in Shetland again but alas we¡¯re stuck here. Sharon Miller¡¯s newest pattern has the same center I fell in love with in the Lerwick Museum so I may have to knit that too. Since we have. I need of warm clothes here anymore I might as well knit intricate lace.
Amy
> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
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> ?Something to divert the mind....
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> I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
> I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
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> But!? I was at Hobby Lobby the other day with Katie.? She was looking at wedding flowers/decorations and I have NO talent with that. So,? I meandered back to the fabric section and bumbled around.? Saw a little clearance shelf tucked away in a corner with all sorts of stuff.
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> There were 3 packages of Yarn Bee Pigment + Fiber in the Quarry Rock colorway.? ?Each package includes 6 balls of yarn in shades from black to grey to winter white.? 1.99 each package.? .33?/ball of yarn.? (Katie didn't even scold me for buying more yarn at that price. ?)
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> It¡¯s a wool/nylon/acrylic blend.? Very soft.? Should be sturdy.
> Each set of 6 has a total of 630 yds.
> Gauge is 32 spi on a size 2 needle.
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> I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
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> No clue what to make with it!
> Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
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> Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
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