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I wear them a ton in the winter as scarves and sometimes in the house because I am always cold.? Well, not right now because it is August, but I’ve had to pull out the fingering weight blanket I knit in the spring a couple of times on cool evenings this summer.

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I am extremely late to the party (spent the entire weekend sewing masks) but I am in love with the Blanket of Calm squares, and another friend recently mentioned that each uses about 3g of fingering weight yarn, so it’s not much, although assembly is going to be a beast.? Some folks on Rav were using a join as you go approach, but since my blanket is seriously insane and I have embryonic crochet skills, I didn’t even try that approach.? Latest picture, extremely partially assembled is here: ? I’ve got at least 100 more squares waiting to be added in.? I’ve also been working on a diagonal mitered square blanket that is join as you go for over 10 years (I know because I started it with 37 stitches because I was 37 at the time) but it has gotten abandoned for years at a time.? Seriously outdated picture here (it’s something over 200 squares now) and I find that very meditative too.

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Catching up on reading and worrying about folks out west; glad to hear from you!

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Melisande

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jaya Srikrishnan
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 11:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk!

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I don’t ‘wear’ them either. But I use them to curl up under when I’m reading or doing something else in the cooler weather. Which is why I prefer the bigger ones. Lighter than a blanket but still cozy.?

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On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 9:26 AM Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:

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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Connie

On Aug 23, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:

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Lovely shawl, Amy!

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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.

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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.?

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I just wound a warp for a linen/silk and a mystery bouclé yarn scarf. The bouclé 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.?

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On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:35 PM Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <brotslaw@...> wrote:

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.

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> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
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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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