DIVA SALE

Gorgeous Fall tree - Silverdale, Washington

The Diva annual fall sale begins on Thursday and runs through Sunday! You will find all yarn, needles and miscellaneous supplies, 30% off! ( no sale on books though! ) Come and get your holiday knitting on!

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This is a wonderful closeup of wool yarn by Cascade known as Niki. It is becoming my next project very shortly. I just need to decide what to make: scarf, purse, hat, pillow, tote or......

Surprise!

I found this picture on Etsy and just had to chuckle to myself! Now, this is discreet nursing! Wish I had thought of it so many years ago when my boys were just babes in my arms!

So Much Yarn - wish it were mine

This is a photo of someone's sock yarn stash! Whoa, baby!

UKO

Unidentified knitted object, that is what I finished tonight. I needed to make a swatch of some Noro yarn for the shop but a swatch was not going to be large enough to show the color change. I decided I would knit a scarf on my favorite pair of straight knitting needles only to decide that I was not into making a scarf and gee, I better do this with just one skein. IN my head is the idea of making a jacket collar, a scarf that could be buttoned at the throat, wrapped around your neck and it would keep the chill from running past your collar and down your neck, Well now, it looks like a deflated, unloved, knit sausage!


Better luck next time and maybe I will stop dropping off to sleep every other row and actually get some creative knitting done!

A Felted Experiment

Felting is one of my favorite things to do with yarn. This piece is knit on size 15 needles with Noro Kureyon yarn, a wool and silk blend. Normally, I only felt with 100% wool but you know how you get a notion.... Anyhow, I think the piece was an interesting idea in creating yarn fabric. I often just knit rectangles and then felt them, add them to my stash and on some winter's day in the not too distant future; I will cut, weave, embellish, sew and make a transformation happen - from a flat piece of knitted fabric to something that can be transformed with soap and hot water. These pieces of felted yarn are to my knitting what paints are for the painter. An element of design!




After felting, the piece has shrunk and bit, making a slightly more dense fabric but very, very soft and draping. I think this would be a lovely way to make a soft fabric for use in a baby's garment.