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Mr. McTavish is actually Tom Livernois.? He and his wife Tracy have a farm with shetland sheep, in addition to Tom building the Drudik wheels.? They are lovely people, and Tom makes a wonderful wheel.??
Diane
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 8:12 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote: Anyone interested in a gorgeous? Drudik wheel?? This is #5 made by Mr. McTavish, the man who studied under Magnus Drudik and took over the business before Magnus passed away.? This is the Smaller version and made of Myrtlewood.? The Original owner only spun on it a couple of times.
It was offered to me by an online friend who is now 75 yo and has decided to pare down her herd.? She bought it from the original owner, had her send it directly to McTavish to have it gone over.? He found nothing needing attention. She had him make 3 additional bobbins for it.
When it arrived at her home, she opened the box, looked in to see everything was fine and that¡¯s where it¡¯s been.? Still in the box in her spinning/weaving studio!
She owns a couple of Golding wheels that she uses a lot.? (Those are works of art)? And she¡¯s a big fan of her Hansen.? She owns a weaving studio and still teaches weaving and spinning classes.? Loves Saori weaving.
I¡¯ve always had my heart set on a full-size Drudik in a dark wood.? So I asked her if I could share this with my trusted friends.? She said she¡¯d much rather sell it this way than some public forum.? There is over a 5-year waiting list to get a Drudik wheel.
Pics will follow in a separate post.
Connie
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?These are the pics from the original owner. Cheryl hasn¡¯t taken it out of the box! ?
I forgot the include the price. She¡¯s asking $3600 and will pay 1/2 the shipping cost from Louisiana to you.
(And knowing Cheryl, she¡¯ll throw in some roving as well. ?)
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?Anyone interested in a gorgeous Drudik wheel? This is #5 made by Mr. McTavish, the man who studied under Magnus Drudik and took over the business before Magnus passed away. This is the Smaller version and made of Myrtlewood. The Original owner only spun on it a couple of times.
It was offered to me by an online friend who is now 75 yo and has decided to pare down her herd. She bought it from the original owner, had her send it directly to McTavish to have it gone over. He found nothing needing attention. She had him make 3 additional bobbins for it.
When it arrived at her home, she opened the box, looked in to see everything was fine and that¡¯s where it¡¯s been. Still in the box in her spinning/weaving studio!
She owns a couple of Golding wheels that she uses a lot. (Those are works of art) And she¡¯s a big fan of her Hansen. She owns a weaving studio and still teaches weaving and spinning classes. Loves Saori weaving.
I¡¯ve always had my heart set on a full-size Drudik in a dark wood. So I asked her if I could share this with my trusted friends. She said she¡¯d much rather sell it this way than some public forum. There is over a 5-year waiting list to get a Drudik wheel.
Pics will follow in a separate post.
Connie
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What lovely news! Here's wishing them all the very best.
Jenny
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of connie@... Sent: 24 August 2020 14:18 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Wedding flowers? Jenny, Yes! Last April, her bow popped the question! The date is Sept 2021. Hopefully by then, the covid mess will be over and done. She actually attended high school with him. They were friends but never dated. They both admitted to me that each one liked the other but never said so. How cool is that. He¡¯s a very nice man. Extremely good with Waylon....plays like a kid. ? Oh, did you ever finish The Summoned Ones? Hope you have a great week! Connie
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Both of those are very cheerful and pretty On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:11 AM Melisande R. Wolf via <melisanderwolf= [email protected]> wrote:
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. ? 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. ? Catching up on reading and worrying about folks out west; glad to hear from you! ? Melisande ? ? 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.? ? 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.? ?
On Aug 23, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
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 <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.
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!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. ?)
>
> 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.
>
> 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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> Connie
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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. ? 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. ? Catching up on reading and worrying about folks out west; glad to hear from you! ? 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! ? 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.? ? 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.? ?
On Aug 23, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
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 <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.
Amy
> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
>
> ?Something to divert the mind....
>
> I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
> I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. ?)
>
> 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.
>
> I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
>
> No clue what to make with it!
> Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
>
> Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
>
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> Connie
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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.?
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.? 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 < 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.
Amy
> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
>
> ?Something to divert the mind....
>
> I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
> I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. ?)
>
> 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.
>
> I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
>
> No clue what to make with it!
> Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
>
> Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
>
>
> Connie
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> <image0.jpeg>
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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:
? 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 < 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.
Amy
> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
>
> ?Something to divert the mind....
>
> I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
> I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. ?)
>
> 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.
>
> I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
>
> No clue what to make with it!
> Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
>
> Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
>
>
> Connie
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Wedding flowers?
Jenny,
Yes! Last April, her bow popped the question! The date is Sept 2021. Hopefully by then, the covid mess will be over and done.
She actually attended high school with him. They were friends but never dated. They both admitted to me that each one liked the other but never said so. How cool is that. He¡¯s a very nice man. Extremely good with Waylon....plays like a kid. ?
Oh, did you ever finish The Summoned Ones?
Hope you have a great week!
Connie
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Good to hear. I hope it stays away from you.?
I hope Cal gets some nice rain.?
We are, fingers crossed, clear for now. There was a big one just east of us a few weeks ago (the Apple Fire, with the pyrocumulus clouds that could be seen from Arizona & Nevada) but it is fully contained and quite remote. We¡¯ve had lots of small lightening-strike fires but thankfully they¡¯ve all been extinguished quickly.? - Shannon On Aug 23, 2020, at 5:50 AM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
? Therese, Amy, Shannon, Sarah, Any of you affected? I think some might be close to Therese. Not sure about the So Cal ones and I don't think there are any around Sacramento but I don't know. T
I am sure many of you are suffering from bad air due to the smoke.
-- Jaya
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I can see the cheer factor in a real bargain of a useable yarn. It¡¯s getting harder to find the sunny side of life at present ¨C but we will get through and these little things do help. ? I like both Therese¡¯s suggestions ¨C and chevron blankets are? really big over in the UK at present so I¡¯ve seen some lovely ones. ? Jenny ?
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Therese Shere
Sent: 23 August 2020 22:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk!? Not my cup of tea either Connie but I can see the attraction. There are some nice lacy and stranded projects on Ravelry, these for instance:?? and? ? gradient sets like this always scream "chevron stripes" to me, since you have so much, how about a chevron-striped kid blanket? Could even be crochet - do you crochet? it was interesting to look over the yarn stash and decide what if anything to pack up the other day. I didn't pack much - just my current projects, the Solsilke Wild Apple kit that Gail gave me long ago, maybe 5 skeins of precious yarns that are no longer available, and the yarn for Janine's Helsinki sweater which just arrived - I'm going to knit that this fall for myself (maybe cardiganizing it).? Same with the handknits - packed maybe 8 or so shawls and sweaters I would really miss, left the rest.
Th¨¦r¨¨se Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
? ? On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 2:35 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.
Amy
> On Aug 23, 2020, at 1:38 PM, Connie@... <connie@...> wrote:
>
> ?Something to divert the mind....
>
> I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
> I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
>
> 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.
>
> 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. ?)
>
> 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.
>
> I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
>
> No clue what to make with it!
> Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
>
> Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
>
>
> Connie
>
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> <image0.jpeg>
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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] < [email protected]> On Behalf Of connie@... Sent: 23 August 2020 21:38 To: [email protected]Subject: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Something to divert the mind.... I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever. I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever! 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. 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. ?) 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. I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ? No clue what to make with it! Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace. Some fade pattern? Ideas? Here¡¯s a pic. Connie
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We are, fingers crossed, clear for now. There was a big one just east of us a few weeks ago (the Apple Fire, with the pyrocumulus clouds that could be seen from Arizona & Nevada) but it is fully contained and quite remote. We¡¯ve had lots of small lightening-strike fires but thankfully they¡¯ve all been extinguished quickly.? - Shannon
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On Aug 23, 2020, at 5:50 AM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
? Therese, Amy, Shannon, Sarah, Any of you affected? I think some might be close to Therese. Not sure about the So Cal ones and I don't think there are any around Sacramento but I don't know. T
I am sure many of you are suffering from bad air due to the smoke.
-- Jaya
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I think the latter. But I would still be inclined to attach as I go. I hate seaming!
Ann? McManus
Ann in PA
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On August 23, 2020, at 8:16 PM, "Connie@..." <connie@...> wrote: Ann, This sounds fun. ?Would each square fade or would each square be a solid color and then arranged into aN overall fade? ? Connie, what about a mitered square blanket? With squares 20 stitches on a side? Fade?? ? ? ? Lise,? Good to know! ?I¡¯ve never tried it before. ?Martha Stewart carries it in her online store so it can¡¯t be too bad. Lol And as you say, bargain retail therapy is oh so good. ?$6 bucks for all that yarn and in a pretty colorway, too. ? I might even do something with little crochet granny squares..... ?but crochet takes a LOT of yarn. ? ? ? ? Yarn Bee is typically really nice stuff, wvwn leaving aside the price point. Retail therapy at that price, who could criticize? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 4:38 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Something to divert the mind....
I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
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.
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. ?)
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.
I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
No clue what to make with it!
Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
Connie
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That's good to know. I tend to save photos from my phone as "large" which is smaller than "actual size," but still large. I have no idea if it's possible to resize them. I guess I should test that out.
Ann? McManus
Ann in PA
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On August 23, 2020, at 8:27 PM, Amy Brotslaw Schweiger <brotslaw@...> wrote: Thanks for remembering! And my dinosaur earthlink provider tripled my storage so I¡¯m good!
Amy ? Couple ideas. Sorry if this gums up Amy¡¯s email. ? Blue green one was Shawl in a Cake, so it ¡°progressed through the colors. The more random one was sock yarn, just pick the next one out of the bag and knit. ? Both were attach as you go, so lots of ends, but little sewing. ? ? ? You can tell my low-rent enthusiasm when my grammar is discarded, so, here we go:? Me and Melisande, we been working on the Blanket of Calm, from Casapinka. Ahem. We're approaching it differently,? but we've both found that small squares work up quickly enough to be very soothing,? and also that there's a lot of fun to be had arranging the squares.? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 7:46 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Oooh. ?So pretty. And the planning to make it work.... ?I *LOVE* this idea.? Laura ? Connie, what about a mitered square blanket? With squares 20 stitches on a side? Fade?? ? ? ? Lise,? Good to know! ?I¡¯ve never tried it before. ?Martha Stewart carries it in her online store so it can¡¯t be too bad. Lol And as you say, bargain retail therapy is oh so good. ?$6 bucks for all that yarn and in a pretty colorway, too. ? I might even do something with little crochet granny squares..... ?but crochet takes a LOT of yarn. ? ? ? ? Yarn Bee is typically really nice stuff, wvwn leaving aside the price point. Retail therapy at that price, who could criticize? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 4:38 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Something to divert the mind....
I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
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.
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. ?)
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.
I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
No clue what to make with it!
Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
Connie
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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 < 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.
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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> Connie
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Therese, Thanks for the detailed update. I'm glad you got your parents out so that is one less thing to worry about if you evacuate. Please take care and we'll all be sending mojo to you and to the others who are affected. Yes, pack the plans because the owners might want them. But only if you can. I don't know how much you can take with you.
Post photos of the skirt, we can vicariously enjoy it with you. I bought some 'sleep dresses' and am living in them. I sweat so much that I am going through T-shirts and pajamas (pretty much all I wear in the house) faster than we can do laundry because I don't have tons of them. The dresses double the number!
Sarah, I'm sorry I didn't realize how close they were to Sacramento. I was thinking NoCal and I had heard there were some in SoCal. The maps are different on each site because they aren't all getting updated, which was confusing me. Stay safe.
Yes Jaya, thanks for asking. So, reporting in: the Walbridge fire, 50,000 acres / 0% contained / growing, is about 10 miles as the crow flies to the west of us. We're on the southeastern flank (which is more like 5 miles away, burning slowly through big old timber), with the river and its valley between us - but if it burns down to the river (not an unlikely scenario), it wouldn't be difficult for it to jump across in our wooded area. We are currently under evacuation warning - not order - so we are packed and ready to go, but staying put until/unless they make it mandatory. Thousands of people around us to south, west, and north are under mandatory order. Happily, CAL FIRE and the county have learned a lot about evacuations over the last four years. They are being VERY cautious, announcing warnings and orders well before danger is imminent. I doubt there will be any emergency middle-of-the-night evacuations.
Got my parents out of here to a friend's in Santa Rosa yesterday, though, for them this is really discombobulating. Eric and I are taking it in stride; it's amazing how your attitude about disasters develops as you deal with several of them over a couple of years. Other people are freaking out on our behalf, and we're having to tell them to calm down :-)? We do have friends who have lost homes already, including one that Eric designed and built 30 years ago, very sad about that - and another home he did a lot of work on for a friend is threatened or gone over in Napa. We realized last night we should pack his original plans for houses he's designed - who knows, maybe we'll have to build one of them for ourselves on of these years.
Air quality is varying, smoke coming and going, sometimes it's ok to be outside working in the garden and sometimes it isn't. Fire *will* continue to grow - main concern is for the Dry Creek Valley northwest of Healdsburg at the moment. And we are in another red flag weather warning - more dry lightning expected tonight. Firefighting resources are very thin on the ground.?
Doing lots of hand sewing and knitting as we watch and wait.? Most fun: just finished the applique embellishment on an Alabama Chanin-style skirt, putting it together today. Not that I have anywhere to wear real clothes!
--Therese??
Th¨¦r¨¨se Shere
Freelance indexing & digital information design
Sacramento area is surrounded by fires but not in direct danger.? We are on alert and have documents, pet carriers, etc close at hand because we potentially have another lightning storm coming that could cause localized fires. But mainly we are blanketed with smoke and ash fall so no one can do much outdoors.? It¡¯s almost as bad as it was 2 years ago when schools were closed for several days. ?
From Facebook, Therese is still on evacuation watch I think.? SoCal is fairly clear for now. ?
Thanks for asking Jaya,? Sarah On Aug 23, 2020, at 5:50 AM, Jaya Srikrishnan <ermabom@...> wrote:
? Therese, Amy, Shannon, Sarah, Any of you affected? I think some might be close to Therese. Not sure about the So Cal ones and I don't think there are any around Sacramento but I don't know. T
I am sure many of you are suffering from bad air due to the smoke.
-- Jaya
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Thanks for remembering! And my dinosaur earthlink provider tripled my storage so I¡¯m good!
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On Aug 23, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote:
? Couple ideas. Sorry if this gums up Amy¡¯s email. ? Blue green one was Shawl in a Cake, so it ¡°progressed through the colors. The more random one was sock yarn, just pick the next one out of the bag and knit. ? Both were attach as you go, so lots of ends, but little sewing. ? ? ? You can tell my low-rent enthusiasm when my grammar is discarded, so, here we go:? Me and Melisande, we been working on the Blanket of Calm, from Casapinka. Ahem. We're approaching it differently,? but we've both found that small squares work up quickly enough to be very soothing,? and also that there's a lot of fun to be had arranging the squares.? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 7:46 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Oooh. ?So pretty. And the planning to make it work.... ?I *LOVE* this idea.? Laura ? Connie, what about a mitered square blanket? With squares 20 stitches on a side? Fade?? ? ? ? Lise,? Good to know! ?I¡¯ve never tried it before. ?Martha Stewart carries it in her online store so it can¡¯t be too bad. Lol And as you say, bargain retail therapy is oh so good. ?$6 bucks for all that yarn and in a pretty colorway, too. ? I might even do something with little crochet granny squares..... ?but crochet takes a LOT of yarn. ? ? ? ? Yarn Bee is typically really nice stuff, wvwn leaving aside the price point. Retail therapy at that price, who could criticize? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 4:38 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Something to divert the mind....
I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
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.
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. ?)
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.
I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
No clue what to make with it!
Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
Connie
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Thanks Lise! ?I¡¯ll check it out
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On Aug 23, 2020, at 8:06 PM, Lise Patterson <erpatter857@...> wrote:
? Oh outstanding idea.
You can tell my low-rent enthusiasm when my grammar is discarded, so, here we go:?
Me and Melisande, we been working on the Blanket of Calm, from Casapinka. Ahem.
We're approaching it differently,? but we've both found that small squares work up quickly enough to be very soothing,? and also that there's a lot of fun to be had arranging the squares.?
Worth a look anyhow.?
Lise in NJ?
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-------- Original message -------- From: Laura Need <lrneed@...> Date: 8/23/20 7:46 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: Re: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk!
Oooh. ?So pretty. And the planning to make it work.... ?I *LOVE* this idea.?
Laura On Aug 23, 2020, at 7:44 PM, Ann McManus <mcmanusab@...> wrote:
? Connie, what about a mitered square blanket? With squares 20 stitches on a side? Fade?? ? ? ? Lise,? Good to know! ?I¡¯ve never tried it before. ?Martha Stewart carries it in her online store so it can¡¯t be too bad. Lol And as you say, bargain retail therapy is oh so good. ?$6 bucks for all that yarn and in a pretty colorway, too. ? I might even do something with little crochet granny squares..... ?but crochet takes a LOT of yarn. ? ? ? ? Yarn Bee is typically really nice stuff, wvwn leaving aside the price point. Retail therapy at that price, who could criticize? Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -------- Original message -------- Date: 8/23/20 4:38 PM (GMT-05:00) Subject: [yarnmongers] Yarn talk! Something to divert the mind....
I haven¡¯t knit anything in forever.
I haven¡¯t bought yarn in forever!
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.
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. ?)
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.
I have all this high-end, expensive yarn tucked away and this makes me ridiculously happy. ?
No clue what to make with it!
Definitely thin enough for Fair Isle or lace.? Some fade pattern?
Ideas?? Here¡¯s a pic.
Connie
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