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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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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 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.?
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.
>
> 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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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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Wedding flowers?
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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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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 – but we will get through and these little things do help. ? I like both Therese’s suggestions – 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
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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.
Thérèse 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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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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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 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.? 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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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 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.? 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
>
>
>
> <image0.jpeg>
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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 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.? ? 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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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 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.? ? 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
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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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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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