Wabi-Sabi, that’s a fun one to say too! While innocently shopping at a the Yarn Bank in Taylors Falls, MN where I didn’t really intend to buy much of anything I found this cool pattern and yarn.
It’s cotton but it feels like linen or paper while you’re knitting with it. It’s kind of an odd feeling to knit with this, yet fun as well. It feels very fragile (although I can say without a doubt that it is not). I can’t wait to see how the yarn will bloom and change when I block it. The photo on the pattern looks like a completely different yarn even though this is the yarn that is called for. The scarf is very slowly growing into a long triangle shape. I say slowly both due to the shape and due to the lack of knitting that has been happening.
My friend, Maryanne, convinced (ok she didn’t have to twist my arm too hard!) me to join her in the Camp Loopy 2014 this year. It’s a virtual camp that takes place over June, July and August. You are given a theme for each month and need to complete a project related to that theme before the 1st of the next month. The first theme is based on our favorite book, movie or TV show and needs to be 400 yds. I chose Harry Potter (which narrowly won out over Game of Thrones) because I found this fantastic Sprout colorway and the Trieste cardigan. It’s my first real steeking experience. Although on the surface it doesn’t look very magical, I can just imagine the vine twisting out from the cardigan to tie someone up. Or the Wholloping Willow branches picking up a car to toss as far as it can. Plus, it reminds me of my college days spent in the greenhouse above the Biology department grafting potato plants. I think I would have gotten along very well with Professor Sprout and the students in Hufflepuff.
Knitting Up North 