Thursday's adventuring was adventuring indeed. We went to a surprisingly nice knitting shop in Maple Plain (I forget the name), and then allll the way up to Avon, Minnesota (aka "The Middle of Nowhere") to a place called Yesterday's Crafts, which sells spinning wheels and fiber and yarn. I bought a skein of Green Mountain Spinnery worsted weight to make thrummed mittens (what can I say? Where the Harlot goes, I must follow.) and 4 ounces of ice blue ingeo (corn) fiber. And then I got infected with spinning wheel lust and now wish I had another one. Or two.
Today was the Twin Cities Knit-Out; I was a little late showing up, but I did, in fact, attend. I also, somehow, won the fastest knitter contest and a 2005 membership to the Minnesota Knitters' Guild. (I knew I was fast, but I was certain someone else had to be faster!) I spent some time at the how-to-knit table and showed a few people how to knit. It was a nice little event.
Last night I started a scarf that's been sitting in my stash for nearly a year, a kit that I bought in Mesa, Arizona. It's nearly done, but the yarn is driving me batty. It's what I think is rayon combined with a strand of something like Kidsilk Haze, and with each tug I get a huge knot of mohair and a reasonable quantity of rayon. It'll be pretty when it's done, though, with beads at the ends!
Tomorrow: pictures.
Tipper @ 7:21 PM * link
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