Monday, May 07, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Braided and Tasseled
The thumbs are done, winged largely without a pattern, and now it the final touches to make this truly Saami.
There is much debate over whether or not there is a Saami knitting tradition. Well, tradition as the Nordic countries see it, perhaps not. Saami are traditionally reindeer herding and nomadic. No sheep, no wool, no spinning. However, over the centuries, the Saami have developed into seven or eight branches, the largest being the Coastal Saami of Norway.
The costal Saami are not nomadic. They dwell on rivers and the Fjords, fishing and farming, occasionally hosting the reindeer Saami on their annual trek West. The coastal Saami do have sheep, handspin rather thick singlets, and incorporate the traditional colors of red, white, bright blue, green and yellow. So, these two things, using more than two colors in and using singles, distinguish the Saami knit goods from other Norwegian knit goods through the past 100 years. The Lovikka mittens are made with this bulky single and felted, with yarn decorations added after the felting.
Another distinguishing feature in mittens is a patterned back of the hand with an unpatterned palm. These mittens are knitted in intarsia or with a funky carrying of yarn up the front. Don't know what it's called, but it is utilized in the Rovanmeni mitten. Wild and wacky. The Rovanemi mitten is disputed in origin. I have spoken with a Finnish knitter and scholar who said the knitter of it was living in the Saami region, but not Saami. This technique is used, however, in Kautokeino as well. Some Saami patterns also have a rune or initials knit on the thumb that is knit in the same technique.
These mittens are from a beautiful Norwegian book, Handplagg. The originals are in a museum in Norway and date from the early 1900s. They hail from the Kautokeino region of Norway, an important Saami town, often stopped in during migrations. They have an allover pattern, braid and tassels, the last differentiating feature. Braids and tassels allow a busy worker, reindeer herder or other, to them to tuck the mittens into a harness for a brief moment when the fingers are needed to work individually outside of a mitt!
So... back to my braids and tassels! To finish these beauties off, I have trimmed some rather long pieces of the red, white and blue yarns used in the mittens -- approximately 30 inches long. I pulled each strand through the non-thumb side of mitten cuff until the yarn was doubled, carefully making sure to pull each color through at a slightly different part of the trim; I don't want the braided cord to pull and make damage to the mitten!
There is much debate over whether or not there is a Saami knitting tradition. Well, tradition as the Nordic countries see it, perhaps not. Saami are traditionally reindeer herding and nomadic. No sheep, no wool, no spinning. However, over the centuries, the Saami have developed into seven or eight branches, the largest being the Coastal Saami of Norway.
The costal Saami are not nomadic. They dwell on rivers and the Fjords, fishing and farming, occasionally hosting the reindeer Saami on their annual trek West. The coastal Saami do have sheep, handspin rather thick singlets, and incorporate the traditional colors of red, white, bright blue, green and yellow. So, these two things, using more than two colors in and using singles, distinguish the Saami knit goods from other Norwegian knit goods through the past 100 years. The Lovikka mittens are made with this bulky single and felted, with yarn decorations added after the felting.
Another distinguishing feature in mittens is a patterned back of the hand with an unpatterned palm. These mittens are knitted in intarsia or with a funky carrying of yarn up the front. Don't know what it's called, but it is utilized in the Rovanmeni mitten. Wild and wacky. The Rovanemi mitten is disputed in origin. I have spoken with a Finnish knitter and scholar who said the knitter of it was living in the Saami region, but not Saami. This technique is used, however, in Kautokeino as well. Some Saami patterns also have a rune or initials knit on the thumb that is knit in the same technique.
These mittens are from a beautiful Norwegian book, Handplagg. The originals are in a museum in Norway and date from the early 1900s. They hail from the Kautokeino region of Norway, an important Saami town, often stopped in during migrations. They have an allover pattern, braid and tassels, the last differentiating feature. Braids and tassels allow a busy worker, reindeer herder or other, to them to tuck the mittens into a harness for a brief moment when the fingers are needed to work individually outside of a mitt!
So... back to my braids and tassels! To finish these beauties off, I have trimmed some rather long pieces of the red, white and blue yarns used in the mittens -- approximately 30 inches long. I pulled each strand through the non-thumb side of mitten cuff until the yarn was doubled, carefully making sure to pull each color through at a slightly different part of the trim; I don't want the braided cord to pull and make damage to the mitten!
Then, I braided the three couplets together, going a bit farther than I wanted. I fashioned tassels by wrapping the red yarn around a 3.5" plastic case until it was to the desired thickness. Then, I threaded the six braid ends through a yarn needle, pierced the top of the soon-to-be-tassel, and drew them within until the braid was the "right" length, whatever that is! For me, it is around 10" long.
I finished off the top of the tassel by winding and binding.
Here is the first one. What a pretty tassel!
Then, Oh Horrors! I went to get the second ball of red.
No second ball of red. I had some Rauma finnulgarn (wrong gauge), and some 2-ply Briggs and Little. A teeny bit off in dye, and a little bit thicker than the Rauma, but I still used it.
Works, doesn't it?
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Picking the thumb
Last night I finally decided what to do with the Saami Nordic mittens' thumbs. I picked out the waste stitches...
Picked up the loose stitches...
Added a few others at the corners, and started knitting!
One down, and one to go!
Picked up the loose stitches...
Monday, April 23, 2012
One More For My Baby, and One More For the Road...
It has been a couple weeks since I posted, and those weeks have been consumed with life and death and baby knits. Friends' relatives have died -- brothers, mothers, and surrogate mothers -- there have been miscarriages, and two friends have given birth. Add to that, the three additional baby showers I have been to, and that's a whole lot of life transitions being commemorated!
Transitions mean stress, and as I complained to my friend, Jennie, about the resulting demands on my time, she said, "why don't you just pull a hand knit gift from your gift box?" haha! Well, her mom had such a thing. I guess I just have to be proud that I am not manic.
That did put me in the mind of baby knitting, though. I have to admit, I haven't done a lot. I knit one cardi before my first baby, and squeezed at least two of the three into it, but I'm pretty sure that was it for their baby hand knits.
Recently, however, I have knit my cousin's first baby an Elizabeth Zimmerman February Baby Sweater last year, and they loved it. As seen previously, I was knitting on a purple garter baby cardi on Good Friday. I was very pleasantly pleased with that knit. The yarn was a reclaimed Knit Picks Shine worsted. I had knit one other baby sweater out of shine before, and it was okay. But, I think the yarn responded much better to just a simple knit. I knit a hat and bootie set for another friend, and then another FBS, hat and booties for a good knitting friend.
That went so well (really enjoyed the Lucy Neatby Celestial Merino hand dyed yarn!), that I decided to knit a layette to enter in the fair for nobody in particular. Well! That must have even my clue to mess up. I knit it halfway in two different yarns, but each yarn, including the third one I finished it with, was so different from one another, and the row gauge was terribly varied. I was using an old pattern that had no final measurements, so that took lots of guesswork. Thankfully, babies come in lots if sizes and grow rapidly, do I know it still will be useful. I just don't know if I like it.
Finally, there was a baby shower two days ago for a dear friend's dayghter's firstborn. Jan died two years ago from ASL, and this would have been her first grandchild. I think I floored Katie by giving her a sweater her mom had knitted. Mark gave me Jan's knit bag, and this sweater was in pieces inside of it. There was no matching yarn, so it was a little tricky, but I think I pieced it well.
Welcome to the world, baby Micah!
Transitions mean stress, and as I complained to my friend, Jennie, about the resulting demands on my time, she said, "why don't you just pull a hand knit gift from your gift box?" haha! Well, her mom had such a thing. I guess I just have to be proud that I am not manic.
That did put me in the mind of baby knitting, though. I have to admit, I haven't done a lot. I knit one cardi before my first baby, and squeezed at least two of the three into it, but I'm pretty sure that was it for their baby hand knits.
Recently, however, I have knit my cousin's first baby an Elizabeth Zimmerman February Baby Sweater last year, and they loved it. As seen previously, I was knitting on a purple garter baby cardi on Good Friday. I was very pleasantly pleased with that knit. The yarn was a reclaimed Knit Picks Shine worsted. I had knit one other baby sweater out of shine before, and it was okay. But, I think the yarn responded much better to just a simple knit. I knit a hat and bootie set for another friend, and then another FBS, hat and booties for a good knitting friend.
That went so well (really enjoyed the Lucy Neatby Celestial Merino hand dyed yarn!), that I decided to knit a layette to enter in the fair for nobody in particular. Well! That must have even my clue to mess up. I knit it halfway in two different yarns, but each yarn, including the third one I finished it with, was so different from one another, and the row gauge was terribly varied. I was using an old pattern that had no final measurements, so that took lots of guesswork. Thankfully, babies come in lots if sizes and grow rapidly, do I know it still will be useful. I just don't know if I like it.
Finally, there was a baby shower two days ago for a dear friend's dayghter's firstborn. Jan died two years ago from ASL, and this would have been her first grandchild. I think I floored Katie by giving her a sweater her mom had knitted. Mark gave me Jan's knit bag, and this sweater was in pieces inside of it. There was no matching yarn, so it was a little tricky, but I think I pieced it well.
Welcome to the world, baby Micah!
Friday, April 06, 2012
Off to Chicago
It is Good Friday, and for the first time in 8 years, the kids have the day off of school. Since this comes on the heels of two, whole, looong weeks off of school, I decided to fulfill a fantasy and finally take the kids back to Chicago's Art Institute.
My honey prepared them yesterday for what this means: long rude to the train station; long ride in the train; computer games only in the train; walking around and probably being bored. I'm so excited!
I brought two projects with me. The first is a pair of Latvian mittens. The second is my perpetual baby project.
On my craft bulletin board I keep a list of all the pregnant friends and their due dates. There are nine listed there. Three were born this week, and another name has been added. Sigh. The requirement for gifts never lessens.
I thought I found a really cute baby sweater pattern when I visited Fort Wayne's Knitting off Broadway store two weeks ago. I inter library loaned the book, picked out a nice fingering weight yarn and started in.
While the pattern is fairly well written, all its directions were with row numbers, not measurements. The gauge mentioned was over the funny lace pattern, not with stockinette, and, since it's a baby sweater, it made more sense to just jump in and let the sweater itself be the gauge.
Unfortunately, my row gauge was much longer than the pattern stated. This sweater was to be knit cuff to cuff, and as a result, the arms and body were much longer than, well, a babies. I also was going to run out of yarn, so into the frog pile it goes!
Now we are on the train. I am winding purple yarn and casting on a baby garter sweater. Here's hoping thus time it works!
My honey prepared them yesterday for what this means: long rude to the train station; long ride in the train; computer games only in the train; walking around and probably being bored. I'm so excited!
I brought two projects with me. The first is a pair of Latvian mittens. The second is my perpetual baby project.
On my craft bulletin board I keep a list of all the pregnant friends and their due dates. There are nine listed there. Three were born this week, and another name has been added. Sigh. The requirement for gifts never lessens.
I thought I found a really cute baby sweater pattern when I visited Fort Wayne's Knitting off Broadway store two weeks ago. I inter library loaned the book, picked out a nice fingering weight yarn and started in.
While the pattern is fairly well written, all its directions were with row numbers, not measurements. The gauge mentioned was over the funny lace pattern, not with stockinette, and, since it's a baby sweater, it made more sense to just jump in and let the sweater itself be the gauge.
Unfortunately, my row gauge was much longer than the pattern stated. This sweater was to be knit cuff to cuff, and as a result, the arms and body were much longer than, well, a babies. I also was going to run out of yarn, so into the frog pile it goes!
Now we are on the train. I am winding purple yarn and casting on a baby garter sweater. Here's hoping thus time it works!
Sunday, April 01, 2012
I spotted a sale this weekend!
So glad they were marked down, 'cause I hate buying my Garaes full price.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Saw Posted in a Bathroom
Some people like to read in the bathroom. Now, I can't comment on the fiction written in men's bathrooms, but in ladies' restrooms, we have a wide variety of readings to choose from. Besides normal graffiti, sales posters and directions on how to download new rolls of tp, we have plenty of other directions. Have you ever noticed how proprietors of the loo can't agree how to phrase, "Flush nothing but bodily products down the pipes"? Often they list in details the other items we should NOT flush.
This sign I saw recently helps clear up what CAN go down the tubes:
Some people like to read in the bathroom. Now, I can't comment on the fiction written in men's bathrooms, but in ladies' restrooms, we have a wide variety of readings to choose from. Besides normal graffiti, sales posters and directions on how to download new rolls of tp, we have plenty of other directions. Have you ever noticed how proprietors of the loo can't agree how to phrase, "Flush nothing but bodily products down the pipes"? Often they list in details the other items we should NOT flush.
This sign I saw recently helps clear up what CAN go down the tubes:
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Commandeered by a Shawl
February was swallowed whole by a sweet, Estonian Shawl. To look at it, one would never guess the depths to which it beguiled me -- held me under it's spell saying, "You're gonna do my pretty nupps, aren't ya?"
Nupps are Estonian for "button," I believe. They are also a knitting technique, supposedly created to make the lovely lace shawls weigh a bit more, and so fetch a higher price on the scales of knitting-for-living economy. In simple terms, a nupp is a knit stitch in which one knits 3, 5, 7 or 9 times into a single stitch; then, on the return purl row, all of those increased stitches are knit back into one. All of my nupps had 7 increases. What it creates is a charming little whorl of yarn around a single stitch. It creates a visual texture in lace knitting that actually is quite lovely. The lace itself is airy and ethereal, but the loop is solid -- not even opaque -- but placed on the airy background, it appears to float. Estonian lace knitting, arranges these loops to form designs in a kind of dot-to-dot. This shawl looked like it had Ohio Star quilt blocks floating on it.
The shawl I did, Crown Prince Square Shawl from Nancy Bush's Knitting of Estonia, was chock full of nupp-y goodness. I can say those words only because a week has elapsed since I have had to do one. A week of bliss, I must say. In my most nupp-y row, while in the throes, had 48 nupps in a single row. And, there were hundreds of rows, and thousands of stitches.
Now that it is done, I plan to enter it in the fair. I think I have to fold it and put it away till then! I have worn it several times, and each time the yarn has caught on a zipper, or I have had a child precariously perched above me, dancing with peanut butter in hand.
What a fright!
Pictures to follow, the next time we have a nice day!
February was swallowed whole by a sweet, Estonian Shawl. To look at it, one would never guess the depths to which it beguiled me -- held me under it's spell saying, "You're gonna do my pretty nupps, aren't ya?"
Nupps are Estonian for "button," I believe. They are also a knitting technique, supposedly created to make the lovely lace shawls weigh a bit more, and so fetch a higher price on the scales of knitting-for-living economy. In simple terms, a nupp is a knit stitch in which one knits 3, 5, 7 or 9 times into a single stitch; then, on the return purl row, all of those increased stitches are knit back into one. All of my nupps had 7 increases. What it creates is a charming little whorl of yarn around a single stitch. It creates a visual texture in lace knitting that actually is quite lovely. The lace itself is airy and ethereal, but the loop is solid -- not even opaque -- but placed on the airy background, it appears to float. Estonian lace knitting, arranges these loops to form designs in a kind of dot-to-dot. This shawl looked like it had Ohio Star quilt blocks floating on it.
The shawl I did, Crown Prince Square Shawl from Nancy Bush's Knitting of Estonia, was chock full of nupp-y goodness. I can say those words only because a week has elapsed since I have had to do one. A week of bliss, I must say. In my most nupp-y row, while in the throes, had 48 nupps in a single row. And, there were hundreds of rows, and thousands of stitches.
Now that it is done, I plan to enter it in the fair. I think I have to fold it and put it away till then! I have worn it several times, and each time the yarn has caught on a zipper, or I have had a child precariously perched above me, dancing with peanut butter in hand.
What a fright!
Pictures to follow, the next time we have a nice day!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Of an Evening Shawl
I've been knitting away on the Crown Prince Square Shawl in Nancy Bush's book Knitted Lace of Estonia, and I'm having a blast. I just cast off the interior square last night, and I'm practicing the double-stranded cast on for the lace border.
Ready to cast on 409 stitches! And, that's just for HALF of the border!
I've been knitting away on the Crown Prince Square Shawl in Nancy Bush's book Knitted Lace of Estonia, and I'm having a blast. I just cast off the interior square last night, and I'm practicing the double-stranded cast on for the lace border.
Ready to cast on 409 stitches! And, that's just for HALF of the border!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Catch up
It hasn't been very quiet weeks here in Lake Wobegone...
I have had two trips and moved the in-laws in with us to help through their transition.
Some knitting has happened through this all.
On my trip to Salt Lake City to visit my friend Tamara and her hubby Rob, I busted out some Finnish knitting from the book I bid on last January. Remember Huuto? And the Mary Olki book? What a fun buy!
I translated the one paragraph instructions, studied the filmy picture and dove in. On the first flight, I cast on and did the yarn fringe. Or, rather, tried to do the yarn fringe. Turns out, I didn't really remember how to. I pulled it out, scared the woman I was sitting by, I think, and fudged it again.
I did the fringe and braid on the way there. Then, raced through the cuff. After a couple days, Tamara said, "why don't you do the other cuff?" So, I braked before the first mitten's thumb and cast on the other cuff. On the plane back home, I completed the first mitten, and almost completed the second mitten on the second flight. When I got home, I just had the thumbs to do, having even woven in all the ends!
Gave them a nice steam bath...
I need to reblock them to straighten out the cuff, but otherwise I am pleased with them!
Once home, I cast on an Estonian lace shawl a la Nancy Bush with some real Estonian micro lace yarn -- a two-ply. It's kind of frightening to knit with. It is so thin, I'm constantly afraid it will break, but so good so far. Half done with that to date.
It hasn't been very quiet weeks here in Lake Wobegone...
I have had two trips and moved the in-laws in with us to help through their transition.
Some knitting has happened through this all.
On my trip to Salt Lake City to visit my friend Tamara and her hubby Rob, I busted out some Finnish knitting from the book I bid on last January. Remember Huuto? And the Mary Olki book? What a fun buy!
I translated the one paragraph instructions, studied the filmy picture and dove in. On the first flight, I cast on and did the yarn fringe. Or, rather, tried to do the yarn fringe. Turns out, I didn't really remember how to. I pulled it out, scared the woman I was sitting by, I think, and fudged it again.
I did the fringe and braid on the way there. Then, raced through the cuff. After a couple days, Tamara said, "why don't you do the other cuff?" So, I braked before the first mitten's thumb and cast on the other cuff. On the plane back home, I completed the first mitten, and almost completed the second mitten on the second flight. When I got home, I just had the thumbs to do, having even woven in all the ends!
Gave them a nice steam bath...
I need to reblock them to straighten out the cuff, but otherwise I am pleased with them!
Once home, I cast on an Estonian lace shawl a la Nancy Bush with some real Estonian micro lace yarn -- a two-ply. It's kind of frightening to knit with. It is so thin, I'm constantly afraid it will break, but so good so far. Half done with that to date.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Bee's Knees
I finished it!
I learned about steeks as I went. I picked up and knitted stitches along the front cut edges:
knit on them...
...till they were the right length.
Then, I tacked them down on the wrong side, affixing them to the stitch which I picked up. This makes a casing that the raw ends live in SO THEY CAN NEVER UNRAVEL. I hope they were listening.
Here is the finished knitted binding on the front:
Chris said it looked just like the picture in the book! Now, I must decide whether to do the hook closures, such are in the book, or whether to knit an i-cord frog and do the regular buttons.
I finished it!
I learned about steeks as I went. I picked up and knitted stitches along the front cut edges:
knit on them...
...till they were the right length.
Then, I tacked them down on the wrong side, affixing them to the stitch which I picked up. This makes a casing that the raw ends live in SO THEY CAN NEVER UNRAVEL. I hope they were listening.
Here is the finished knitted binding on the front:
Chris said it looked just like the picture in the book! Now, I must decide whether to do the hook closures, such are in the book, or whether to knit an i-cord frog and do the regular buttons.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Happy Birthday to me!
This day last year I made the pattern Shazam and wrote it.
This year was a bit different. I was quite busy with the ordinary things of life, but I did have some nice surprises: breakfast in bed -- eggs! Cooked by someone who hates them, for someone he loves; a slice of chocolate, chocolate chip cheesecake at the homeless shelter where I volunteer; a Rowan membership magazine waiting for me on my stoop when I got home; a sweet poem written by a sweeter girl; all the kids being in evening activities so my honey and I could have dinner together; heat that is (sort of) working.
Blessings...
This day last year I made the pattern Shazam and wrote it.
This year was a bit different. I was quite busy with the ordinary things of life, but I did have some nice surprises: breakfast in bed -- eggs! Cooked by someone who hates them, for someone he loves; a slice of chocolate, chocolate chip cheesecake at the homeless shelter where I volunteer; a Rowan membership magazine waiting for me on my stoop when I got home; a sweet poem written by a sweeter girl; all the kids being in evening activities so my honey and I could have dinner together; heat that is (sort of) working.
Blessings...
Friday, January 13, 2012
Eek! A steek!
This week, I cut my first steek. Well, sort of.
A year and a half ago, I went to the Nordic Knitting Conference and took a class with Danish designer and fabu knitter Ruth Sorensen. While there, I mentioned in passing that I had never cut a steek. She grabbed one of her projects, forced the scissors in my hand and had no mercy. But in a kind way.
But, that was her knitting. This is mine. In September, I cast on a lovely little kid cardigan by Mary Scott Huff called the Bee's Knees. It is in her book The New Stranded Colorwork. I knit it up rather quickly, but it is a steeked cardigan. The concept behind it is, one knits a long tube of fabric using multiple strands of yarn in multiple colors in order to get a colored pattern of some kind. Patterning is much easier if one is always knitting it looking at the right side of the work - not turning and purling on the wrong side. When one turns the work, it is much easier to get the patterning wrong, or twist the different colors around each other in the opposite direction from the right side of the work. All that can effect the finished product.
The downside to knitting a huge tube of fabric is, when you knit all the way to the shoulder height and cast off (or reserve stitches for a three-needle shoulder bind-off), you then have to cut up the front for the cardigan opening, cut down the sides to insert the sleeves, and cut a shallow opening for the front of the neck.
Yeah, I know.
Well, I've done my first real steek now. I called my hubby down and he documented it for me. In the middle of the video, the sound diminishes for around 20 seconds, but it comes back.
(Sigh. The video will not load. I will try to upload it on another post.)
Even though I am now a steek graduate, of sorts, I still haven't cut the armhole steeks and the arm steeks. That was another cool thing in this pattern: Mary had us knit both sleeves at the same time with 8 waste stitches between the two. That way, all the patterning and stranding is done at once. When done, one secures the stitches with machine stitching, and cuts the sleeve tube into two sleeves.
I hope to do it today.
This week, I cut my first steek. Well, sort of.
A year and a half ago, I went to the Nordic Knitting Conference and took a class with Danish designer and fabu knitter Ruth Sorensen. While there, I mentioned in passing that I had never cut a steek. She grabbed one of her projects, forced the scissors in my hand and had no mercy. But in a kind way.
But, that was her knitting. This is mine. In September, I cast on a lovely little kid cardigan by Mary Scott Huff called the Bee's Knees. It is in her book The New Stranded Colorwork. I knit it up rather quickly, but it is a steeked cardigan. The concept behind it is, one knits a long tube of fabric using multiple strands of yarn in multiple colors in order to get a colored pattern of some kind. Patterning is much easier if one is always knitting it looking at the right side of the work - not turning and purling on the wrong side. When one turns the work, it is much easier to get the patterning wrong, or twist the different colors around each other in the opposite direction from the right side of the work. All that can effect the finished product.
The downside to knitting a huge tube of fabric is, when you knit all the way to the shoulder height and cast off (or reserve stitches for a three-needle shoulder bind-off), you then have to cut up the front for the cardigan opening, cut down the sides to insert the sleeves, and cut a shallow opening for the front of the neck.
Yeah, I know.
Well, I've done my first real steek now. I called my hubby down and he documented it for me. In the middle of the video, the sound diminishes for around 20 seconds, but it comes back.
(Sigh. The video will not load. I will try to upload it on another post.)
Even though I am now a steek graduate, of sorts, I still haven't cut the armhole steeks and the arm steeks. That was another cool thing in this pattern: Mary had us knit both sleeves at the same time with 8 waste stitches between the two. That way, all the patterning and stranding is done at once. When done, one secures the stitches with machine stitching, and cuts the sleeve tube into two sleeves.
I hope to do it today.
Thursday, January 05, 2012
Christmas is done -- Bring in the New Year
Got some Christmas projects done, and I am free-to-be Jan-u-ary!
First, I knit a friend's son a stocking
I knit a dear friend in the service some socks
And, I knit Suzy Hoo a hat!
So, this New Year's we went to London -- again!
But, it was London, Ontario. And, it was after a day at Niagara with the kids.
So, the kids are back in school, and I have pulled the Kauni I bought from The Trading Post booth at the Michigan Fiber Festival in August. What lovely yarn they have! A few other people carry Kauni -- Little Knits and Webs, and now the Shuttle Shop near me -- but it is so nice to touch and feel the wool one is buying.
After researching the Kauni Cardigan, designed by Ruth Sorensen, I have been planning on knitting the damask version of the cardi. Now I'm onto planning which colors should go side by side. Too bad I don't have enough yarn to knit a hat as my swatch. In fact, I remember having this conversation with a Ravelry friend about two years ago! It's about time I cast on!
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