…and thanks so much for starting off with a national trauma. It’s hard to see the relevance of a knitting blog these days, but at the same time, it’s got to be healthy to be interested in something as traditional and mundane, comforting and non-controversial as knitting. I mean, we can argue over the merits of different cast-ons, and whether superwash wool even deserves to be called wool, and why the heck cropped sweaters suddenly came back in style, but we’re not going to come to blows over it all.
I’ve been knitting – no surprise there – and un-knitting, too. Some of the projects I started just didn’t work out, and the yarn is back in a ball waiting for inspiration. But I actually did finish a sweater.
It’s called Bowness, a relatively simple top-down raglan with a nice geometric stitch pattern. I made it in a combination of sport-weight Patagonia organic merino and another sport-weight fuzzy called Lusso to make a worsted weight gauge. It came out a bit fuzzy, very soft, and lovely and warm, and I’ve worn it probably every other day since it finished blocking! I didn’t think I needed another oatmeal-colored sweater, I had at least 4 already, but now it’s quite obvious that I did desperately need one more!
I’ve been working on updating some old shop patterns and making new models for them. One was this cabled hat, which I re-made in a new Noro yarn called Miyabi, 65% wool and 35% cashmere. Squishy, warm, and in a lovely colorway of softly heathered stripes, the yarn is very special (and priced accordingly so I ordered sparingly.)
Another old pattern, our Plain & Fancy Scarf, got an update using Edition 3, a semi-striping extra-fine merino that really spruces up a plain yarn.
And I’m using Berroco’s newest yarn, Summer Sesame, to make a new version of our Summer Ruana, a light one-piece warm-weather piece that will make jeans and tee into a dinner-worthy outfit, once we can all go out to dinner again! Pictures next time, but this should entice you to dream up a wonderful use for this pretty yarn:
And for those of you who are in love with Manos’ Maxima extra-fine merino yarn, we received a shipment and have some stellar colors in stock again:
Playing around, I came up with some beautiful combinations for Interlude, one of our favorite worsted-weight shawls:
Depressingly, our suppliers are still having some difficulty getting enough stock to completely fill orders due to the effect the virus is having on supply chains around the world, but we have been able to fill our shelves with lovely yarns. You’ll find beautiful colors, wonderful fibers, and plenty of projects to inspire you!
