Catching Up

Knitting My Way Home Handspun
If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a mother, it’s that I will always be catching up on something.  Whether it’s catching up on the laundry, catching up on the reading that I’d like to do or catching up on a blog post; there’s always something.  This post catches us up from when I attended Yarnover over a month ago.  Yarnover is a full day of classes and a wonderful market of local yarn shops.  I was able to see some of my favorites, including Sharon of Three Irish Girls at the Darn Knit Anyway booth, the Yarnery and StevenBe.  I also met a new favorite, Knitting My Way Home.  Sharon had her two beautiful daughters with her as well as her spinning wheel.  Some of her handspun found it’s way into my bag.  It’s a beautiful blend of silk and merino that is still deciding what it wants to be.  (All suggestions for 210 yds of light worsted would be appreciated).  I feel like a bit of an idiot as I had plans to chat up all the yarn store owners and meet all sorts of fibery people.  Instead, due to the creeping crud that I was coming down with, I don’t think I was able to speak in coherent sentances.  I didn’t even take pictures!  (bad blogger!)
  
The class I took was Bavarian Twisted Stitch Hat with Meg Swansen & Amy Detjen.  Let me just say that I want to be Meg Swansen when I grow up.  She has that sort of grace and style that you just can’t copy.  You either have it or you don’t.  Both women have a love of knitting that comes through in their class.  So much of what I picked up and remembered were just off the cuff comments that they made about knitting.  Often people in the class would stop one of them to say, “say that again.”  Things like if you are kitchenering the toe of a sock, treat the first two stitches on each needles as well as the last two stitches as if they are one.  This creates a decrease at each end of the toe, eliminating the dog-ear look.  That one just about knocked me out of my chair.  Again, I think I looked like I was either near death’s door or falling asleep in class.  However, I loved taking the class and would sign up for another Meg Swansen/Amy Detjen class in a heartbeat. 
Little Lily

As for the finished project, here it is.  Lily desperately wants this hat, since it is her favorite color.  I actually made it for me, but I suspect the wee one will win out.  Especially considering that I got a surprise hat in the mail from Knittymuggins!  The hat fits both of us, so I would consider it a size small.  I cast on 160 stitches with a size 5 needle.  It’s very densely knit. 

Look What I made!
The decreases were a bit tricky as the pattern I had was written in that vague Elizabeth Zimmerman sort of way.  Honestly, I think any way you choose to do the decreases would work just fine.  


Daddy Daughter Time

 

 

 

 

3 thoughts on “Catching Up”

  1. It was fun to meet you at Yarnover. And I never suspected you weren’t feeling your best. Enjoy the yarn, I can’t wait to see what it tells you it wants to be!

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